Studying the effects of transformational leadership on staff self- leadership and job burnout

The practice of growing job stress and burnout and the alienation of employees, demonstrated that managers and employees need to take leadership and strong leadership skills, this will be possible through the transformational leader in the organization. The purpose of this study is examainig the effect of transformational leadership on self-leadership and job burnout on the organization's staff. This research is applied objective and the descriptive method of data collection. The study sample, all the staff of the Office of Economic Affairs and Finance Kermanshah province, 112 people of which 87 were selected by Cochran statistical formula. In order to explain the relationship between the research variables it's was used of transformational leadership questionnaire Robin (2005), burnout Maslach (2002) and Houghton and Neck (2002), that its reliability through Cronbach's alpha and validity through the content validity were examined. Data analysis done with Structural equation modeling analysis software through Smart-PLS. The results showed that transformational leadership has significant positive impact on self-leadership and reduce on job burnout. While relation between idealized influence and individual Consideration components of transformational leaders hip on self-leadership was not confirmed. Keywords: transformational leadership, self -leadership, job burnout.