RELATIONSHIP OF JOB BURNOUT WITH DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES ? A CASE STUDY OF PUBLIC & PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN INDIA

The present research paper investigates the relationship of demographic variables like age, experience, gender and designation with Total Job burnout as well as 3 dimensions of Job Burnout i.e ‘Emotional Exhaustion', ‘Depersonalization' and ‘Diminished Personal Accomplishment as given by Maslach and Jackson (1981) Burnout Inventory . The data was collected and analysed during the time period of 2015 from teaching fraternity working in Public & Private Universities of India. Faculty members from Management, Engineering and Basic Sciences departments with designation Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor were selected as a sample keeping in mind the availability of the data, cost to be incurred and the distance to be travelled for data collection. Only faculty members with more than one year of experience were taken in to consideration. The data were analysed by using mean, standard deviation, t-test & critical ratio method, One way ANOVA. A significant difference was found in Job Burnout levels of faculty teaching in public & private universities of Punjab on the basis of Designation, Experience, Qualification whereas on the basis of Gender there was no significant difference in total Job Burnout & its three dimensions i.e Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization & Diminished Personal Accomplishment.