The truth about burnout: how organizations cause personal stress and what to do about it

The truth about burnout: how organizations cause personal stress and what to do about it Christina Maslach, Michael P. Leiter is available to download

The truth about burnout: how organizations cause personal stress and what to do about it Christina Maslach, Michael P.The truth about burnout: ... Textbook Leiter
Type:	eBook
Released:	1997
Publisher:	Jossey-Bass
Page Count:	202
Format:	djvu
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	0787908746
ISBN-13:	9780787908744

From Library Journal This collaboration by Maslach (Career Burnout, Free Pr., 1989), creator of the eponymous Maslach Burnout Inventory, and Leiter, a psychologist and educator, has a telling subtitle. To wit: the organization shoulders the responsibility for the individual's inability to subsist and thrive in the workplace. Although readers might challenge this premise, the authors do a credible job of examining the dichotomy between the individual and the organizational value system. They cite six reasons for burnout?work overload, powerlessness, insufficient reward, system unfairness, breakdown of community, and value systems in conflict?and recommend a process-oriented engagement to advance both the individual and the organization. Similar approaches can be found in W. Edwards Demings's well-known "Fourteen Points" and Stephen R. Covey's books (e.g., First Things First, LJ 4/1/94). Recommended for business collections.?Steven Silkunas, DCO SEPTA/FRONTIER, Conshohocken, Pa.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review As the original researcher who first identified and described burnout, Dr. Maslach now digs to the roots of alienation and loss of community in many large organizations. -- Spirituality & Health, editor, T. George Harris