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Burnout is a common metaphor for a state of extreme psychophysical exhaustion, usually work-related. This book provides an overview of the burnout syndrome from its earliest recorded occurrences to current empirical studies. It reviews perceptions that burnout is particularly prevalent among certain professional groups - police officers, social workers, teachers, financial traders - and introduces individual inter- personal, workload, occupational, organizational, social and cultural factors. Burnout deals with occurrence, measurement, assessment as well as intervention and treatment programmes.; This textbook should prove useful to occupational and organizational health and safety researchers and practitioners around the world. It should also be a valuable resource for human resources professional and related management professionals.
Burnout is a common metaphor for a state of extreme psychophysical
exhaustion, usually work-related. This book provides an overview of
the burnout syndrome from its earliest recorded occurrences to
current empirical studies. It reviews perceptions that burnout is
particularly prevalent among certain professional groups - police
officers, social workers, teachers, financial traders - and
introduces individual inter- personal, workload, occupational,
organizational, social and cultural factors. Burnout deals with
occurrence, measurement, assessment as well as intervention and
treatment programmes.; This textbook should prove useful to
occupational and organizational health and safety researchers and
practitioners around the world. It should also be a valuable
resource for human resources professional and related management
professionals.
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