The impact of personal, professional and organizational characteristics on administrator burnout

Abstract

The purpose of the study was threefold: to identify the most salient personal, professional, and organizational characteristics contributing to administrator burnout; to determine those correlational relationships that are most salient; and to assess the role of social support’s impact on job satisfaction, burnout, and performance. A total of 1,000 principals and superintendents from Washington State were administered the Administrator Work Inventory. The authors identify different strategies to be taken to mitigate the various dimensions of burnout.

Citation

Gmelch, W.H. and Gates, G. (1998), "The impact of personal, professional and organizational characteristics on administrator burnout", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 146-159. https://doi.org/10.1108/09578239810204363