Job burnout and its Causes among Extension Employees in Minia Governorate

Abstract

This research endeavors to reach the following aims: (1) Measuring the degree of job burnout among extension personnel in Minia Governorate; (2) Measuring the degree of organizational causes for job burnout according to the perceptions of extension personnel in Minia Governorate; (3) Identifying the most significant causes of affecting job burnout among the studied organizational causes. The research was conducted on 152 respondents representing 89.4% of the total number of extension personnel in Minya Governorate (170 personnel). Data were collected using questionnaire forms during July 2022. Frequencies, percentages, arithmetic mean, and stepwise multiple regression analysis were used for data presentation and analysis. The results showed a high level of job burnout among the respondents in general and with respect to each of the three dimensions of job burnout, in addition to the high degree of most of the organizational causes of job burnout. The results also indicated that there are four organizational causes (reward, control, workload, and fairness) significantly explains 23.2% of the total variance in job burnout.