The study of the Relationship between the Leadership styles of managers and Job Burnout of Technical-Vocational Education Centers Employees in the North of Iran

ABSTRACT: Job burnout is a prolonged reaction to the emotional and interpersonal chronic stressors at work. The most important conditions of job burnout are hypofunction, absenteeism, successive delays, various complaints, conflict and contradiction in the workplace, jobs and reponsibilies changes, or at last desertion. An important factor may affect employeesʹ job burnout is the leadership style of managers. A successful manager has to have the leadership features to make employers welcome his presence. With regard to the subject, ,the present research is going to survey the relationship between the leadership styles of managers (relation-oriented and task-oriented)and job burnout of technical-vocational education centers employers.This research has been done due to applied objectives and a descriptive study through correlation method. The population included all employees of technical -vocational education centers in Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan. From among them 291subjects based on krejcie and Morganʹs table and by the use of random class sampling precedure were selected as the samples of this study. for collecting the research data, the questionaires by the use of feild and library methods were used. The research findings indicated that there is a significant relationship between the leadership styles and job burnout , the relation-oriented leadership had a negative relationship with job burnout while the task-oriented leadership had a positive and significant relationship with job burnout.