Correlation between organizational culture and burnout in the staff of Tehran province welfare organization
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Rashedi V , Foroughan M , Hosseini M.A |
, vahidrashedi@yahoo.com |
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Abstract
Introduction: Burnout
is the individuals’ response to stress factors of work place and leads to
changes in peoples’ attitudes and behaviors toward work and environment. Aim of
this study was to determine the correlation between organizational culture and
burnout in the staff of Tehran province welfare organization.
Materials
and methods: In this descriptive-correlational study, 189
people were selected through random sampling. To collect data, demographic
questionnaire,’ Hofstede Organizational Culture Questionnaire’ and ‘Maslach
Burnout Questionnaire’ were used. To analyze the collected data by SPSS 12,
Independent T-test, Mann-Whitney U, One-way ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis were
applied.
Findings:
The
sample consisted of 38.1% male and 61% female
.Results also showed that 9% of respondents were married.
The mean age of the sample was 37.66(SD: 6.77) and the mean of employment years
was 12.93(SD: 6.93). In addition, findings revealed that, the characteristics
of the organizational culture of the research community are as follows:
cultural balance with a trend to masculinity, collectivism, fairly high
uncertainty avoidance and high-distant of power. Burnout in emotional
exhaustion and depersonalization was low whereas in personal accomplishment
(frequency and intensity) were in medium levels. Analytic findings disclosed
that the intensity of personal under-accomplishment was related positively and
significantly with individualism-collectivism (P=0.03) and uncertainty
avoidance (P=0.02).
Conclusion:
The
results suggested that organizational culture (individualism-collectivism and
uncertainty avoidance) has a positive significant correlation with burnout
(intensity of personal accomplishment).
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Keywords: Organizational culture, Burnout, Welfare organization. |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
health & social welfare management Received: 2012/06/20 | Published: 2012/04/15
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