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The aim of the study is to determine burnout of academics, to investigate effects of role ambiguity, role conflict and social support on burnout and to analyze level of burnout in terms of some demographic variables. In this research done on 417 academics working in public and foundation universities in Istanbul and whose data collected by survey method, the relationship between variables and interactions found out with regression analyze. At the end of the research, it was determined that the role ambiguity, role conflict and social support correlated with burnout and all dimensions, these variables affected burnout and there were significant relationships/differences between some demographic variables and level of burnout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study firstly, the relationship between risk and risk management was investigated by examining concepts such as probability, ambiguity and decision making. The development of risk management in the USA in the 1950s aimed the protection of people and goods with minimum loss. Such management techniques intended to minimize losses with lowest cost while protecting an organization's profit making power by planning, organization, management and control of necessary resources and activities. Afterwards the processes of risk management such as identification, evaluation and assessment of the risk, alternative risk correction devices, selected alternatives, evaluation and control were examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]