The Survey of the Relationship between Job Burnout and Organizational Commitment among Zahedan Medical Sciences University Staff Members in 2016

Abstract

Introduction: organizational commitment changes subject to various environmental factors. The internal and external work environment factors can exert considerable effects on organizational commitment. Among the work environment internal factors, which is recently very common, is job burnout or exhaustion. According to the fact that the cultural differences can be effective on the staff performance, commitment and quality of their work, justifying this hypothesis can help managers to enhance the staff organizational commitment through improving job exhaustion conditions. Therefore, the present study aims at the survey of the relationship between job burnout and organizational commitment in Zahedan medical sciences university staff. Implementation method: the present study is a descriptive-analytical research of the cross-sectional type which has been conducted on 165 individuals of Zahedan medical sciences employees all of whom have been selected randomly in 2016. To gather the information required for the analysis, a three-part questionnaire was applied, the first part of which was related to the demographic characteristics, the second part pertained to Maslech burnout inventory (MBI) and the third part included Allen and Mayer’s standard questionnaire. In the end, the data were analyzed by making use of SPSS 19 software and the descriptive statistics, Pierson correlation, variance analysis and independent t-test were analyzed. Findings: the results of the present study indicated that the individuals’ average age was 36.32 ± 9.96. And 103 individuals were women and 139 were married. The overall mean score obtained from the organizational commitment questionnaire was 73.45 ± 4.54 and the overall mean score of the job burnout inventory score was 58.58 ± 10.15. There was not found a significant relationship between the gender and marital status with job burnout and organizational commitment (P>0.05). The relationship between job exhaustion and organizational commitment was not statistically significant (P=0.235). Conclusion: according to the results obtained in the present study which are indicative of the lack of statistically significant relationship between job burnout and organizational commitment, it seems that other factors are playing parts in organizational commitment and job burnout which are not taken into consideration in the present study. © 2016, Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development. All rights reserved.