Prediction power of burnout due to organizational culture and organizational silence (Case Study: Electricity distribution companies in Ahvaz)

Pages: 124-127
Abbas Asmar (Department of Management, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran )
Fereshteh Mostafavi Rad (Department of Educational & Psychological Science, Sepidan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sepidan, Iran )

The burnout can defined as a reaction against chronic stress and the responding to pressures of work or organization. The main objective of this study is the concept of the causes and the effect relationship between two variables the organizational and the institutional silence on the phenomenon of the burnout among the managers and employees that are working in electricity distribution company Ahwaz. Because the burnout effects on all aspects of the people organizational life and reduce the operation and the quality of the people. This research is conducted among the employees and the managers of electricity distribution Ahwaz. To select the required sample is used of the census sampling and the statistical methods such as the standard deviation, the regression and the Pierson correlation coefficient. In this research is used of the Maslach burnout inventory questionnaire and the Denison’s organizational culture questionnaire and the akvla’s organizational silence. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by using the cronbache’s alpha coefficient that is satisfactory and acceptable. The results also show that there are significant relationships between the burnout and the Denison’s organizational culture and the vakval’s organizational silence. Also the organizational silence has a direct relationship with the burnout and has a inverse relationship with the Denison’s organizational culture. This means that with the increase of silence in system, the organizational culture is reduced and the burnout is increased. It is worth noting that the relationship is directing between the organizational culture and the burnout. So that the burnout is increased by increasing the organizational culture and the burnout is reduced by reducing the organizational culture.