Abstract

One of the banes of modern stressful life style is the occurrence of burnout syndrome among the educated people. Most of the educated people, who opt to be a teacher, cope with the heavy demands of the professional obligations and may suffer from the burnout syndrome sooner than later. Because of this malady, one becomes indifferent and listless towards one’s profession and consequently happens to grow larger pathological apathy towards one’s profession. This study attempts to pinpoint the factors, which contribute to the high rate of burnout among teachers of Universities. Burnout amongst teachers does not affect themselves alone but their students as well. Teacher’s burnout has become an area of interest among researchers and practitioners in many fields during the past decade. The researchers have investigated personality, source of stress, burnout, organizational behaviour and emotional intelligence of the educators who appear to be experiencing burnout to a greater degree than their colleagues. Research findings have indicated the gaps in findings. Keeping in view these gaps in mind, the present study has been designed to understand more systematically, the complex and multifaceted nature of burnout and its relationship with personality,