A Study of Burnout in Relation to Job Involvement of College Teachers in Himachal Pradesh

Teaching has been one of the oldest and most respected professions in the world. The task of teacher
is shaping the future of citizens and thereby society and nation. Due to respectful duty, teacher has
been respectful in all society through ancient to Buddhist period. In the modern period teacher is
regarded as a custodian and architect of a nation. Today, there are many duties and responsibilities of
a teachers working at different level of education. Burnout is the outcome of excessive stress. Many
illnesses like liver and heart disease are likely due to psychological stresses of modern life. The
percentage of burnout is likely higher today. Better understanding of this stress outcome has to be
promoted.The study was delimited to the thirty four government and private degree Colleges located
in territory of Himachal Pradesh and seven districts i.e. Hamirpur, Bilaspur, Una, Kangra, Shimla
Chamba and Mandi of Himachal Pradesh. The investigator in the present study has adopted descriptive
survey method. The population for the present study comprised teachers teaching degree classes in
government and private (aided and non-aided) colleges affiliated to Himachal Pradesh University.
Since, it was not possible to cover all the colleges in the State of Himachal Pradesh, stratified random
sampling technique was applied, first for selection of colleges by giving due weightage to type of
management, mode of appointment, location and gender and secondly to draw the sample of 546
teachers from the colleges. In the present study, the researcher used the following tools for collection
of data:Burnout Inventory (BI) developed by Karuna Shankar Misra (2005). Means, S.Ds. and t-value as
well as analysis of variance (ANOVA) used as a statistical techniques to analyse and interpret the data.