The Relationship Between Spirituality and job burnout Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran"

Subject Areas : Futurology

M. Asgharpour Hajiabadi ¹ , H. Rezghi Shirsavar ² , Sh. Hashemnia ³

1 - کارشناس ارشد گروه مدیریت آموزشی دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشاسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد گرمسار، گرمسار، ایران
2 - استادیار گروه مدیریت آموزشی دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روانشاسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد گرمسار، گرمسار، ایران.(مسئول مکاتبات)
3 - استادیار دانشگاه پیام نور کرج، کرج، ایران

Received: 2014-02-20 Accepted : 2014-07-28 Published : 2015-11-23

Keywords: spirituality in the workplace, Job Burnout, Demographic Variables,

Abstract :

The purpose of the current article is to investigate the relationship between spirituality and employee burnout of the Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad university of Tehran.The article defines burnout in three dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of individual success. Spirituality in the workplace has been conceptualized as work with meaning in individual level, solidarity in group level and alignment with organizational values in the organizational level.The population of this study ,which is composed of over 817 people , are the total employee of the Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad university.Among these, according to Morgan & Krejcie sampling table, 277 were randomly selected.To collect data, Maslach burnout questionnaire (1981) consisting of 20 items and Miliman & et all spirituality questionnaire (2003) consisting of 20 items were used.The validity of questionnaires is confirmed by using Expert opinions & pilot implementation.Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient test was determined 93% for spirituality in the work place and 87% for the burnout rate which is acceptable.This study analyzed data on the descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, mean, medium, standard, deviation, variance and charting and on the inferential statistics analysis was done using Kolmogorov – Smirnov test, correlation & independent T test and regression.The findings of the current research reports that there is a significant, inverse relationship between spirituality in the workplace and burn out and with the rise of spirituality in the workplace, burn out reduces.Some of the demographic variables such as age and working experience are related to job burnout. Moreover aging as well as working experience can lead to increased burnout.However, we found no association between spirituality in the workplace & demographic variables.