摘要：The paper explores stress and burnout in higher education sector of Pakistan. It explores the historical neglect poverty and socio-political marginalization, complemented by natural disasters and anti-terrorist military operations. These are causes for less development in the sector. Additional to them, internal job related factors add to cause stress and burnout. The paper conducted a systematic literature review including papers from 8 journals and 6 books in 4 electronic databases. It concludes that teachers and administrators should know about job stress, burnout, stressors and coping mechanisms and produce policies for making the working environment congenial.
