Faculty burnout: Does anyone think of that?

Background: Job burnout is one of the factors that decrease the productivity of university faculty members. This is important for teachers who are essential elements of the educational system. Having failure in paying attention to environmental and organizational factors as well as psychological and personality traits in professors will lead to adverse effects on their mental health, increasing job burnout and consequently, declining the quality of human capital education. Methods: This study is a narrative review aiming to investigate the factors affecting job burnout of faculty members. Articles were searched using Persian and Latin keywords including job burnout, resilience, self-care, faculty members, and academic burnout, individually or in combination at SID, ERIC, Noormags, Magiran, Google Scholar, Science Direct, and PubMed databases regardless of time constraint. Results: Investigating the texts showed that faculty members have more likely experienced burnout in the dimension of emotional exhaustion and then in depersonalization. Factors affecting job burnout included environmental, organizational (such as workplace, social support), and individual (such as extraversion and idealism) reasons. Resilience was known as one of the factors reducing burnout. Conclusion: By combining the individual and organizational characteristics with work areas, sustainable workloads, supportive work communities, fairness and meaningful work, along with valuable resilience strategies, burnout can be prevented.