BURNOUT AT WORK -AN ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON IN ROMANIA

The aim of this paper is to analyze the correlation between burnout, organizational support, job boredom and performance in Romanian employees. This research aims to contribute to addressing the existing gaps in Romanian literature on the phenomenon of burnout, as well as at the international level regarding the relationships among the variables. Burnout has a significant impact on employees’ perspective towards work and is closely related to their performance. In this research, a questionnaire was used to track all these factors. The interval in which the questionnaire was distributed to collect responses through social media was one month, in December 2024. The study was conducted on a sample of 113 respondents, employees in Romania, using quantitative methods and five validated scales. The hypotheses have been partially confirmed. Employees who receive organizational support will have lower levels of burnout, boredom or procrastination. Moreover, employees in the public sector have a higher level of performance than those in the private sector, with no differences in burnout levels between these two groups, while procrastination mediates the effect of boredom on job performance.