An Investigation of the Relationship between Organizational Atmosphere with Job Burnout and Job Satisfaction of Ahvaz Academic Librarians

This research attempted to investigate the organizational atmosphere of academic libraries in Ahvaz and job burnout and job satisfaction of the librarians. It also attempted to investigate the relationship between the organizational atmosphere and the two other variables.
This research is of a descriptive-analytical and correlational survey. The population consisted of the staffs working as “Librarian” in the academic libraries surveyed. There were 125 librarians among whom the questionnaires were distributed. Of these, 110 (88%) librarians completed and returned the questionnaires. To analyze the data, Pearson’s Correlation Co-efficient was used to measure the relationship between organizational atmosphere with job burnout and job satisfaction. One-sample t-test was also used to measure the status of organizational atmosphere, burnout, and job satisfaction in academic libraries.
Findings: The results showed that there is a significant relationship between organizational atmosphere and job satisfaction of academic librarians of Ahvaz. It was also revealed that organizational atmosphere of academic libraries of Ahvaz is desirable. ; However, the level of librarians’ burnout is high and they are not satisfied with their job.
As the academic libraries of Ahvaz benefit a desirable organizational atmosphere but librarians are not satisfied and suffer from a high burnout, it requires that the university administrators and library directors consider this responsibly. Thus, librarians’ job satisfaction will improve and prevent job burnout or decrease librarians’ job burnout