Title: The Relationship between Organizational Justice and Burnout in Professional Life: A Research on Police Officers
Abstract: ABSTRACTBurnout, also called occupational exhaustion, affects the health and productivity of employees. Burnout is defined as emotional exhaustion and depersonalization and sense of low personal success. Burnout experienced by employees could be effected by the opinion of organizational justice. Opinion of organizational justice is one organizational factor affecting employees' attitudes and behaviors towards their work within the organization and their environment. This research identifies, in the scope of between organizational justice and burnout in professional life, burnout employees experience related to emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal achievement. To achieve this objective, data got from face-to-face surveys with 100 police officers were evaluated. The research part consists of an application to measuring burnout between organizational justice and burnout in work life. Findings show a significant correlation between the view of justice and burnout in work life.JEL: M12KEYWORDS: Organization, Organizational Justice, Occupational Exhaustion, Job BurnoutINTRODUCTIONIndividuals face a life surrounded in stress that exerts its presence in any sphere. The struggle to adapt to this stressful life that has disturbed individual's psychological balance, and may make the individual helpless, vulnerable and weak, on one hand revealing the energy needed for survival. On the other hand it may leading to a paradox which may destroy individual's entire energy. Stress in working enviromnents occurs. If the individual cannot find the opportunity to prove himself/herself and supported to cope with these needs, this may lead to long term stress and burnout. Burnout is a condition which needs prevention as it may lead to grave and serious outcomes for the organization and individual. With introducing technology into business, the use of computers has increased. This, as a result, creates pressure on employees to complete a job within a given time increasing the workload. Workload is one of the significant reasons behind burnout.The most recognized studies on burnout were first described by Freudenberger in 1974 and then carried out by Maslach (1982). Maslach handled burnout in three categories, namely emotional exhaustion, personal achievement and depersonalization. Burnout which may lead to instances such as decreases in professional achievement, inadequate service, increased absenteeism, tendency for changing jobs and indifference to work creates major problems on individuals and professional life leading to major motivation loss. Until recently researches usually focused on industrial workers. Little attention was paid to social workers in the human service sector (Kristensen et al, 2005). Nevertheless in recent years, job burnout of employees in the services have begun to be the subject of academic research.The rest of the paper organized as follows. The next section describes the relevant literature. Next, we discuss the data and method used in the study. The results presented in the following sections. The paper closes with some assuming comments.LITERATURE REVIEWThis section summarizes previous studies that examine organizational justice and job burnout. The main objective of this section is to analyze and identify the relationship between organizational justice and burnout in professional life in business management by reviewing the literature for organizational justice and job burnout.Organizational Justice in Business OrganizationsHumanity has developed from consumer lifestyle to productive lifestyle, from nomadic life to permanent settlement, from individualism to socialization, from collective life to distribution of work and specialization, from equality to hierarchy. It has also evolved in different ways to culminate in rapidly changing, complicated and stressful atmosphere of our day.Organizational justice is essentially based on the equity theory developed by Adams. …
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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