Job burnout: How to spot it and take action
Job burnout is a special type of work-related stress — a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity. “Burnout” isn’t a medical diagnosis. Some experts think that other conditions, such as depression, are behind burnout. Researchers point out that individual factors, such as […]
How Purpose And Employee Empowerment Can Stop Burnout
Burnout has become a global phenomenon that affects a wide range of professions, reduces productivity and hurts the overall economy. It also takes a social and psychological toll on those who suffer from it. Moreover, trying to simply decrease stress and schedule relaxation time is not working to stop what Jennifer Moss calls, the burnout epidemic. […]
Stress and burnout: The significant difference
Burnout is often conceptualized within the framework of stress research. The present manuscript contends that while burnout and strain are both adverse responses to job stressors they seem to have different antecedents, correlates and consequences. The existential perspective is offered as a theory based approach to differentiate the two concepts and point to the distinct […]
