The Impact of Leadership Style on Employee's Burnout (Case Study of Guilan Province's Tax Directorte)

Today, Stress and burnout are common serious problems among individuals. These phenomena are the underlying physical and emotional diseases that can lead to increase absence from work, and decrease production. Leadership styles have different effects on prevention or occurrence of stress and burnout. The overall objective of this study is, to investigate the impact of leadership style on employee's burnout. The statistical society of the study is the Employees of tax Directorate of Guilan Province. Using the Bass and Avolio multifactor leadership questionnaire (1997) and the Maslach burnout inventory (1981), the information gathered and analyzed by SPSS and It was determined that the transformational leadership style has negative effects on staff burnout. As well as the transactional leadership style has a negative impact on staff burnout but the passive/ avoidance leadership style has a positive impact on staff burnout.