The burnout challenge managing people's relationships with their jobs

"Solutions to workplace burnout often involve victim-blaming: Stressed? Try therapy-or a new job. But burnout is a sign of defective workplaces, not workers. Drawing on decades of research, Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter show managers how to recognize burnout and fix problems cost-effectively,...

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Main Authors: Maslach, Christina (Author), Leiter, Michael P. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2022]
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Summary:"Solutions to workplace burnout often involve victim-blaming: Stressed? Try therapy-or a new job. But burnout is a sign of defective workplaces, not workers. Drawing on decades of research, Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter show managers how to recognize burnout and fix problems cost-effectively, improving employees' productivity and health"--
Physical Description:viii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674251014
0674251016
Author Notes:Christina Maslach is Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at the University of California, Berkeley, and the cocreator of the Maslach Burnout Inventory, a widely used metric. In 2020 she received the Scientific Reviewing award from the National Academy of Sciences for her writing on burnout.

Michael P. Leiter is an organizational psychologist and consultant. He has been Professor of Organisational Psychology at Deakin University in Australia and was Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health at Acadia University.