The Relationship between Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Professional Burnout of High School Teachers in Khatam City

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• S.K A
• H. GH

Abstract

This research is intended to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction, organizational commitment and burnout of high school teachers in the city of Khatam, Iran. The study was an applied research and took a descriptive approach for data collection. 115 out of 160 primary and secondary high school teachers in Khatam who had been serving during the 92-93 academic years were randomly selected based on Morgan Sample size table. The research instruments were standardized tests of Smith, Kendall and Hulin`s job satisfaction questionnaire, Meyer and Allen`s Organizational Commitment Questionnaire and Burnout Questionnaire (MBI). These questionnaires are standard scales that previous research has proven time and again their validity. The questionnaire were distributed among a number of experts and their validity were reconfirmed. The reliability coefficients for job satisfaction scale was 0/94, for Organizational Commitment was 0/86 And for components of burnout including emotional exhaustion, Depersonalization and Feelings of Adequacy were 0/86 , 0/73 and 0/90 respectively. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of variance and multiple regressions. The results showed that among the components of burnout, there was only a significant difference between male and female teachers’ Feelings of Adequacy. Separation between the components of burnout with level of education and age was not significantly different. Job satisfaction and organizational commitment contributed to predicting emotional exhaustion and feelings of adequacy. In predicting depersonalization only organizational commitment was the contributor variable.

Keywords

• burnout
• Emotional exhaustion
• Depersonalization
• Feelings of Adequacy
• Job satisfaction and Organizational commitment

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