The Relationship between Burnout and Organizational Commitment (Case study: social security organization of west department of Mazandaran province)

The aim of the present study is to reveal the relationships between the burnout levels ofthe people employed in social security organization of west department ofMazandaran province (as well as relevant sub dimensions such as emotional exhaustion,depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment) and their levels oforganizational commitment (as well as relevant sub-dimensions such as affectivecommitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment). The study makesuse of the following scales: Burnout Scale and Organizational Commitment Scale. In this context, a brief definition of burnout would be the reaction of the individualagainst the demands and the stress levels of the workplace, whereas organizationalcommitment might be defined as the interest and the attachment of the individualtowards the organization (as well as a comparative sense of belonging). As a result ofthe analyses carried out, the Pearson correlation coefficient (a parametric test) has beencalculated in order to reveal the relationships between the aforementioned variables.Two sets of relationships between the relevant sub-dimensions have been found to bestatistically insignificant: 1) the relationship between the sub-dimensions reducedpersonal accomplishment and continuance commitment, 2) the relationship betweenthe sub-dimensions depersonalization and normative commitment. Correlationcoefficients in all other binary comparisons have been found out to be statisticallysignificant. As a result, it has been demonstrated that there is a significant relationshipbetween burnout and organizational commitment.

کلیدواژه ها:

Burnout ، Organizational Commitment