Job burnout and its relationship to social workers performance in homeless children’s institutions

This study aimed to determine the relationship between job burnout and social workers performance in homeless children’s institutions. It also aimed to identify the differences between males and females in both job burnout and professional performance. The study concepts were defined as (job burnout, professional performance). The research community consisted of (38) social workers in homeless children’s institutions. This study belongs to the descriptive studies type to determine the relationship between two variables: job burnout and the level of work performance among social workers in homeless children’s institutions. The study tools included a knowledge data sheet, a scale of professional burnout with sub-dimensions in three dimensions: (emotional exhaustion, stagnation in human interaction, and lack of personal achievement), and a scale of professional performance of the social worker with sub-dimensions in five dimensions: (the professional performance of the social worker with clients, the professional performance of the social worker with colleagues, the professional performance of the social worker with the institution’s management, the social worker’s performance of professional practice skills, and the distinctive practices of the social worker). The findings of this study concluded that there is a statistically significant inverse relationship at a significance level of (0.05) between job burnout and professional performance among social workers in homeless children’s institutions. It also found that there were no statistically significant differences between the average scores of (males and females) of social workers in homeless children’s institutions on job burnout and professional performance scales.