explaining burnout of working women with an emphasis on the role of organizational and psychological variables (case study: technical & vocational and islamic azad university of shiraz)

burnout syndrome includes aspects of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and decrement of personal accomplishment to which staffs vulnerable to because of their exposure to physical and psychological stressors. the necessity of this research is related to inadequate research on women. the current research aims to explain burnout of working women with an emphasis on the role of organizational and psychological variables in technical & vocational and islamic azad university of shiraz. the research was conducted based on a descriptive-correlational method. the population includes all women employed at technical and vocational & islamic azad university of shiraz (n=225). according to the cochran formula, the sample size was 143 women who were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling method. data was collected using maslach burnout inventory, allen and meyer`s organizational commitment questionnaire, lu et al role- conflict and ambiguity questionnaire, colquitt’s organizational justice questionnaire. data was analyzed using descriptive-statistic method that includes pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis. the results show that justice and organizational commitment through role conflict and ambiguity mediation have indirect and negative effect on burnout. the results showed that organizational commitment has both direct and indirect effect on burnout via the mediation of role conflict and role ambiguity. organizational justice has also both direct and indirect effect on burnout via the mediation of role conflict and role ambiguity. role conflict and role ambiguity have shown to have direct effect on burnout. according to the fitted indices, the final model of the study has a relatively good fit.