Influence of Employee Burnout on Work Engagement and Turnover Intention Among HR Professionals in a Multicultural Environment

Workplace burnout has become a pervasive issue in global organizations potentially affecting the well-being and productivity of employees across various industries. The present study was conducted to examine the influence of workplace burnout on work engagement and quitting intention among purposively selected 150 Human Resource (HR) professionals in multinational organisations in Lagos State, Nigeria. We adopted the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) to assess the three dimensions of burnout syndrome. This measure was administered along with other relevant instruments. Five hypotheses were tested using correlation and regression analyses. The finding of the study indicates that burnout is negatively related to work engagement (r= -.527, p