Burnout prediction model based on organizational justices and commitment, change intention, role conflict and ambiguity

Subject Areas : Education

میترا yadegar ¹ , M.H seif ²

1 - M.S/Islamic azad university of shiraz
2 - Assistant Professor/Payame Noor University

Received: 2015-01-23 Accepted : 2017-06-21 Published : 2017-05-22

Keywords: Organizational Commitment, Role Conflict, burnout,

Abstract :

Burnout is one of the most important factors in reducing productivity in organizations and involves physical and mental signs, especially in the human service professions.This research was to Burnout prediction model based on organizational justices and commitment, change Intention, Role conflict and ambiguity. The research method was correlation and the population was all the staff of technical & vocational and Islamic Azad Universityin shiraz(430 ones), that  among them 203 ones were selected through multiple stage cluster randomized sampling method. Research instruments included 5 questionair Maslach burnout (2001), Allen & Meyer organizational commitment (2004), Darvish Yousef change intention (2000), Lu et al. role conflict and ambiguity (2001), and Colquitte organizational justice (2001). The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis were utilized for analyzing the data. The results showed that organizational commitment  have direct effect and also indirect effect on burnout via the mediation of change intention, role conflict and role ambiguity. Organizational justice had indirect effect on burnout via the mediation of change intention, role conflict and role ambiguity. No direct effect was found between organizational justice and burnout. Change intention, role conflict and role ambiguity had direct effect on burnout. According to the fitted indices, the final model of the study has a relatively good fit.

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