"We Still Need To Talk About Burnout

This book critically examines the concept of work burnout exploring its origins defining features and ongoing debates in psychological and organizational research. Burnout is a pervasive phenomenon in contemporary work life typically characterized by exhaustion a distant and/or cynical attitude towards work and the people one works with and a diminished sense of effectiveness at work. It emerges when chronic stress overwhelms our capacity to cope often resulting in reduced work performance increased absenteeism and a general decline in well-being. Yet fifty years after its initial appearance in the scientific literature many questions about the concept remain unresolved. This collection of essays addresses key questions about burnout’s relationship to work personality emotional labour and outlines future directions for scholarly inquiry. This book will be helpful for researchers of industrial and organizational psychology as well as those interested in business management and human resource management. Most chapters were originally published as a special issue of Work & Stress and were complemented with several additional contributions on burnout that appeared in this journal. |We Still Need to Talk about Burnout