RESUMEN
Introduction: in recent years, one of the concepts that has attracted industrial and organizational psychologists' attention is employees' exhaustion called burnout having a direct relationship with inefficiency of human capital
Methods: this is an applied descriptive survery. The study population was 230 employees of East Azerbaijan province welfare. The data were collected by a researcher- made questionnaire based on the theory of Bardvik and the burnout theory of Maslach. For assessing the validity [Symbolic or formal] and thee reliability SPSS was used which showed 0/760 and 0/880, respectively. The data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics
Result: all variables in the research hypotheses, other than those of the first and second hypotheses, appeared to have a significant correlation, with a correlation coefficient of 0.056 which is less than less than 0.05. According to the statistics tables and linear regression analysis, it could be concluded that per unit change in the independent variable is explained by a change in the dependent variable
Conclusion: the results indicate that, career plateau and its dimensions, except for the lack of learning, are effective on staff burnout in Welfare Organization of East Azerbaijan province