Impact of job burnout, age and marital status on job involvement among banking employees in Eritrea

Abstract

The present study was aimed to explore the effect of job burnout, age and marital status on job involvement among banking personnel. The sample consists of 100 employees working in banks of Eritrea, Asmara, North East Africa, selected randomly. Job involvement scale developed by Lodhal and Kejner (1965) and Maslach and Jackson (1981) job burnout inventory were administered to collect the data .The data analyzed by using Means, Standard Deviations and ‘t’ test. The results revealed that (i) low job burnout employees showed greater degree of job involvement than high job burnout employees (ii) younger group of employees showed significantly higher level of job involvement than older employees and, (iii) married employees found significantly more job involved than unmarried counterparts.