Employee Burnout
In the pursuit of organisational excellence, we are often guilty of neglecting our personal health and wellbeing. Consequently, it has recently been estimated that up to 44% of employees experience symptoms of severe emotional exhaustion or stress - known commonly as burnout.
Technique Overview
Employee Burnout Definition
Burnout is a prolonged response to continual job-related stressors, predominantly of an emotional and interpersonal nature. Burnout can be defined by three dimensions − exhaustion, cynicism, and professional inefficacy − and can impair both personal and social functioning (Maslach & Leiter, 2007). Other well-established models of burnout expand upon these dimensions, adding disengagement (Demerouti & Bakker, 2008), reduced resilience (Scheibenbogen et al., 2017), physical fatigue and cognitive weariness (Lundgren-Nilsson et al., 2012) as further salient symptoms.
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- Bakker, A. B., Demerouti, E., de Boer, E., & Schaufeli, W. B. (2003). Job demands and job resources as predictors of absence duration and frequency. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 62, 341 – 356.
- Childs, B., Weidman, J., Farnsworth, C., & Christofferson, J. (2017). Use of personality profile assessments in the U.S. commercial construction industry. International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 13, 267-283.
- Chiu, S. F., & Tsai, M. C. (2006). Relationships among burnout, job involvement, and organizational citizenship behavior. The Journal of Psychology, 140(6), 517-530.
- Demerouti, E., & Bakker, A. B. (2008), ‘The Oldenburg Burnout Inventory: A good alternative to measure burnout and engagement’ in Halbesleben, J. (ed.), Handbook of stress and burnout in health care, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, New York, pp. 65–78.
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