Burnout and Workplace Deviant Behavior

• Main Author: Ahmad Nizan, Mat Noor
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: BF Psychology
• Online Access: http://etd.uum.edu.my/99/1/ahmad_nizan.pdf; http://etd.uum.edu.my/99/2/ahmad_nizan.pdf; http://etd.uum.edu.my/99/

There are main assumptions that burnout syndrome can lead to workplace deviant behavior and negatively effect the organization seriously. Generally, the purpose of the study was to discover the relationship between burnout and workplace deviant behavior among academic staffs in UiTM Perlis. This study also discovers the differences between demographic factors with burnout and workplace deviant behavior. This study aims to assess the burnout level by using Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educator Survey scale (MBI-ES; Maslach, Jackson, and Schwab (1986), and workplace deviant behavior by using Deviant Behavior scale (Lewis, and Bradfield, 1999). 169 questionnaires were distributed to 169 participants by using simple random sampling. Based on the objectives, seven hypotheses were developed and tested using Pearson Correlation, t-Test, and ANOVA. The result from hypotheses testing shown that there are negative relationship between burnout and workplace deviant behavior and shown that burnout are not having significant contribution to predict workplace deviant behavior. Furthermore, certain demographic factors also were not found to have any significant difference or relation to burnout and workplace deviant behavior.