UDC 378+159.944
DOI 10.20339/AM.01-26.091
Yulia V. Karavaeva, Cand. Sci (Pedagogy), Docent, Associate Professor, Lipetsk State Pedagogical P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University, Lipetsk, Russia, e-mail: jvkaravaeva@yandex.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1792-3712
Polina S. Kuznetsova, Master’s student, Lipetsk State Pedagogical P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University, Lipetsk, Russia, e-mail: polina.polina.kuznetsova02@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2989-9944
The article presents the results of a study of professional burnout among higher education employees from a sociological perspective. The paper describes the features of professional burnout in the teaching profession, identifies the causes of this phenomenon, and highlights that the high stratification incompatibility of statuses is the main cause of professional burnout among higher education employees. The article explores the state of social tension caused by role conflicts and manifested in the stratification incompatibility of the statuses of teachers and higher education administrators at the behavioral level. The article analyzes the manifestations of professional burnout among employees, which are diagnosed in professional conflicts and in the characteristics of the socio-psychological climate in the teaching staff. Based on an analysis of educators’ assessment of the level of opportunities offered by leadership positions in higher education, the study examines the situation of combining managerial and teaching activities, analyzes the reasons for their incompatibility in the same person, and identifies the conditions for the development of social dysfunction. The results of the study show that the professional burnout of higher education employees has organizational causes related to the disruption of the separation of administrative hierarchies in an educational organization: a democratic upward hierarchy for professionals and a mechanistic-bureaucratic downward hierarchy for support staff.
Keywords: professional burnout, teaching staff, higher education, stratification concepts, stratification incompatibility, role conflict, income, prestige, power, education
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