Volume : 9, Issue : 4, APR 2023

OCCUPATIONAL BURNOUT AND ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

MANJINDER SINGH

Abstract

Occupational burnout is a severe condition characterized by emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion due to prolonged stress, often prevalent in human service professions. It has been employed in present investigation to study the relationship between occupational burnout and organizational climate among secondary school teachers. A stratified random sampling technique was adopted for the selection of sample 200 school teachers was taken for the study. The suitable Statistical Techniques were employed to give concise picture of the whole data for its better comprehension. The results show that there exists high level of occupational burn out among high schools teachers. There exists no significant difference in occupational burnout of high school teachers with respect to gender and type of school but differ on organizational climate on type of school. There is significant but inverse relationship between the level of organizational climate and occupational burnout. The study suggests that schools should manage burnout in teachers to maximize productivity and effectiveness.

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