The Relationship between Organizational Justice and Burnout in Professional Life : A Research on Police Officers

Burnout, also called occupational exhaustion, affects the health and productivity of employees. Burnout is defined as emotional exhaustion and depersonalization and sense of low personal success. Burnout experienced by employees could be effected by the opinion of organizational justice. Opinion of organizational justice is one organizational factor affecting employees' attitudes and behaviors towards their work within the organization and their environment. This research identifies, in the scope of between organizational justice and burnout in professional life, burnout employees experience related to emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal achievement. To achieve this objective, data got from face-to face surveys with 100 police officers were evaluated. The research part consists of an application to measuring burnout between organizational justice and burnout in work life. Findings show a significant correlation between the view of justice and burnout in work life