BURNOUT EFFECT ON THE ACADEMIC AND WORK PERFORMANCE OF PART-TIME STUDENTS IN INDONESIA

Abstract

The current phenomenon of employees who are looking for a university’s degree in Indonesia shows the awareness about the importance of having further and formal education for career advancement in the developing counties. Whilst studying as part-time students, they have two roles, as a student and as an employee. The burden, in the form of work stress may cause individual burnout, which the highest level of work stress, that may affect the overall individual performance, in particular the academic and the work performance. Examining the part-time students at the private universities in Indonesia, burnout that is hypothesized to affect their performance has been partly proven. The study uses a quantitative approach with descriptive methods and inferential statistics, with a research model of causality (causal relationship) between burnout to academic achievement and work achievement of part-student. The sample used probability sampling with a total of 136 part-time students as respondents. Regression analysis was performed to determine the significant of the relationship reveals that burnout has an influence on academic performance but not on work performance. Key conclusion of the findings reveals that pursuing for education at the university level as part-time student is good for employees and wont affect their work performance. Although the burnout situation affect academic performance, part-time students are found to know the priority of their responsibility. For higher institutions, the potential of recruiting and telling the potential part-time students without worrying so much on the potential effect of burnout that presumably to affect their work performance, and for the employers, it is the same as the work performance of part-time students in the study seems to be maintained, indicating they could becoming more structured, effective and competence as they possess more knowledge obtained while studying.