Mohammad Akhondi - Department of Education, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Birjand, South Khorasan, Iran
Hadi Pourshafei - Department of Education, associate professor at Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Birjand, SouthKhorasan, Iran
Ali Asgari - Department of Education, associate professor at Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Birjand, SouthKhorasan, Iran

Feeling of meaning at work and existence of unity between work and life are among concepts which are proposedrecently in organizational spirituality paradigm. Accordingly, investigating elements of organizational spirituality andtheir effect on organizational setting is important. Current study is carried out focusing on specifying the role oforganizational spirituality on teachers’ job stress. The research method is correlational and its goal is applied. Thewhole population of the study was 326 which includes all Birjands first grade high school teachers in 2014-2015academic year. 196 persons were chosen from the population as the sample group based on st ratified random sampling.To gather the required data two questionnaires of (Milliman, Czaplewski and Ferguson, 2003) organizationalspirituality and (Doa, 1994) job stress questionnaire were used. The result of the study while confirming the negativeeffect of (the feeling of meaning at work) and (the feeling of relatedness at work|) on job stress revealed that alignmentof personal values with organization does not have an impact on the rate of persons stress at work.

Job stress; Organizational spirituality; Organizational setting