Abstract
The need to examine the moderating role of perceived organisational support on job burnout and turnover intention has emerged as a prevalent factor in institutions of higher learning among academic staff members. This study aims to examine the moderating role of perceived organisational support on job burnout and turnover intention in a South African institutions of higher learning. There is a limitation on the investigation of job burnout, turnover intention and perceived organisational support as a moderating variable of academic staff members in institutions of higher learning. The study employs a cross-sectional survey design and adopts a quantitative approach. The questionnaire was distributed to academic staff members in one institution of higher learning. The collected data were analysed using the IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 29.0 through descriptive statistics, including means and standard deviations, correlational analysis and reliability analyses and the moderation-regression analysis. The main finding of the study indicated that perceived organisational support moderates the relationship between job burnout and turnover intention. The results of the study seeks to assist institutions in how to support their employees so that they do not experience an overwhelming working environment that will result in them leaving their organisations hence it proposed mechanisms for them to review their strategies to understand the causes of job burnout and turnover intention among academic staff members. The study is beneficial to the management of institutions of higher learning in terms of how to arrest job burnout and turnover intention amongst academic staff members.