The Role of Career Quality in Reducing Occupational Burnout Phenomenon at Private Universities, Hodeidah

Abstract

  The study aimed to determine the role of quality of work life in its dimensions (job promotion opportunities, fairness of material and moral incentives, fairness of salaries, supervision style, positive work environment, and social relations) in reducing the phenomenon of job burnout in its dimensions (emotional stress, emotional dullness, and low level of achievement) in private universities in Al-Hodeidah Governorate. The study community represented all private universities in Al-Hodeidah Governorate, numbering (4) private universities. A comprehensive census was conducted to collect data from the study community, numbering (138). The descriptive analytical approach was used in the study. The questionnaire was adopted as a primary tool for collecting information, and (115) questionnaires were retrieved, of which (113) were valid for analysis. To achieve the objectives of the study; The SPSS program was used, and the study reached the most important results: The level of practicing quality of work life in private universities in Al-Hodeidah Governorate was average, and the level of availability of job burnout was weak, there is a statistically significant role for quality of work life in all its dimensions in reducing the phenomenon of job burnout, there are statistically significant differences in the answers of sample members about the level of quality of work life and the level of job burnout attributed to the gender variable, and the variable of length of service at the university, and there are statistically significant differences in the answers of sample members about the level of quality of work life and the level of job burnout attributed to the variable of job title, and through these results the study presented several recommendations, the most important of which are: the necessity for the administrations of private universities in Al-Hodeida Governorate to be keen to increase the level of quality of work life in their universities by adopting quality of work life as an organizational culture among their employees, and for the administrations of private universities to establish a wage and salary system that is compatible with the economic situation of their employees, achieves satisfaction of their needs and desires, and reduces the level of job burnout among them