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Work ethic, organizational commitment and burnout
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SWPS Uniwersytet Humanistycznospołeczny / SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland (Wydział Zamiejscowy w Katowicach, Zakład Psychologii Zachowań Społecznych i Organizacyjnych / Faculty of Psychology,
Department of Social and Organizational Behavior Psychology)
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Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach / University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
(Wydział Pedagogiki i Psychologii, Instytut Psychologii, Zakład Psychologii Pracy i Organizacji / Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology,
Institute of Psychology, Work and Organizational Psychology Department)
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Śląski Uniwersytet Medyczny w Katowicach / Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland (Wydział Nauk o Zdrowiu, Katedra Nauk Społecznych i Humanistycznych, Zakład Psychologii / School of Health Sciences,
Chair of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Psychology)
Online publication date: 2019-04-29
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Małgorzata Chrupała-Pniak
Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach,
Wydział Pedagogiki i Psychologii, Instytut Psychologii, Zakład Psychologii Pracy i Organizacji, ul. Grażyńskiego 53,
40-126 Katowice
Med Pr Work Health Saf. 2019;70(3):305-16
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Background: This work aims to present the results of a research study on the relations between work ethic, organizational commitment
and job burnout. The authors investigated a sample of employees representing different industries and companies, e.g.,
lawyers, IT specialists, medical doctors, clerks, teachers and railwaymen (N = 335). Material and Methods: The research study was
based on the Job Demands−Resources model. The work ethic measured by the Polish adaptation of the Multidimensional Work Ethic
Profile consisted of 8 factors: the value of hard work, work as a central value of life, unwillingness to waste time, aversion to free time,
delayed gratification, self-reliance, morality, and work as a moral duty. The organizational commitment measured by the Organizational
Commitment Scale consisted of 3 components: affective commitment, normative commitment and continuance commitment.
To measure job burnout, the Polish adaptation of the Link Burnout Questionnaire was used, which is composed of 4 dimensions of
burnout: psycho-physical exhaustion, relationship deterioration, the sense of professional failure, and disillusion. Results: The study
shows that work ethic dimensions and organizational commitment are negatively correlated with job burnout. Significant predictors
which can reduce job burnout include work as a moral duty, the value of hard work, work as a central value of life, aversion to free
time and morality as dimensions of work ethic and affective commitment. Conclusions: Some dimensions of work ethic and organizational
commitment constitute job resources and can decrease job burnout. Work ethic, and affective and normative commitment
reduce the sense of disillusion. Med Pr. 2019;70(3):305–16