Self–Efficacy Moderates the Relationship Between Job Stress and Burnout
• SELF–EFFICACY MODERATES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN[pic] JOB [pic]STRESS AND[pic] BURNOUT
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this research is to determine that self efficacy helps in reducing job stress and help to avoid/reduce burnout phase or not. As the world has become a global village and the competition in the market has drastically increased, so employer require from his employs that they perform at their optimal level in order to remain or sustains in the market or gain competitive advantage. In today’s work life employs face many different challenges due to increase in competition and has to perform many different roles, which eventually cause stress to the employs and their prolong stress usually leads to burnout phase which is an extreme condition to an employee. As today’s employer need maximum performance out of their employs so they want their employees to remain motivate and passionate about their work. According to Schwarzer (1999) self-efficacy plays a vital role in affecting people’s perception, feeling, and actions and people who are low in self-efficacy are more toward depression and these people are mostly pessimist in their thoughts. So at present employer want their employees to be high in self-efficacy and have that self-believe to achieve the desired targets and goals so they can confidently contribute toward organizational success.
For our research we gathered data from about 200 employees, in which there were 143 males and 57 females from whom we gathered are research data. We take our sample from different organization in Lahore (Pakistan) as it is more convenient to us. We choose organizations like Berger, Silk bank, PCB, software house, production house, and Different universities professors and government irrigation department all of the employees were highly professional and have minimum of 5 years of experience in their professions.
Are results were highly significant and by are research we come to conclusion that the self-
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this research is to determine that self efficacy helps in reducing job stress and help to avoid/reduce burnout phase or not. As the world has become a global village and the competition in the market has drastically increased, so employer require from his employs that they perform at their optimal level in order to remain or sustains in the market or gain competitive advantage. In today’s work life employs face many different challenges due to increase in competition and has to perform many different roles, which eventually cause stress to the employs and their prolong stress usually leads to burnout phase which is an extreme condition to an employee. As today’s employer need maximum performance out of their employs so they want their employees to remain motivate and passionate about their work. According to Schwarzer (1999) self-efficacy plays a vital role in affecting people’s perception, feeling, and actions and people who are low in self-efficacy are more toward depression and these people are mostly pessimist in their thoughts. So at present employer want their employees to be high in self-efficacy and have that self-believe to achieve the desired targets and goals so they can confidently contribute toward organizational success.
For our research we gathered data from about 200 employees, in which there were 143 males and 57 females from whom we gathered are research data. We take our sample from different organization in Lahore (Pakistan) as it is more convenient to us. We choose organizations like Berger, Silk bank, PCB, software house, production house, and Different universities professors and government irrigation department all of the employees were highly professional and have minimum of 5 years of experience in their professions.
Are results were highly significant and by are research we come to conclusion that the self-
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