Meeting the Challenge of Burnout with Dr. Christina Maslach (click here)
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Christina Maslach on burnout in the modern workplace. Dr. Maslach, a leading researcher in the field of occupational burnout, argues that burnout is the result of mismatches between the workplace and the worker in six critical areas. Innovative answers to this challenge need to modify the job-person relationship in order to manage the chronic job conditions that lead to burnout.
Professor Michael Leiter on Combatting Burnout at Work (click here)
In this episode of Better Thinking, Nesh Nikolic speaks with Dr Michael Leiter about improving work engagement and combatting burnout. He has published widely on job burnout, work engagement, and workplace civility. His recent initiatives have focused on improving the quality of worklife through enhancing the level of civility and respect among colleagues. His intervention work on improving respect and civility at work has demonstrated a close link of improved collegiality with greater engagement with work.
From the Wall Street Journal (click here)
Author Michael Leiter on Ways to Battle Burnout
Michael Leiter, author of "The Burnout Challenge," shares advice on how to implement changes at your current job to make it work better for you.
Burnout Isn't Just Exhaustion (click here)
Whether working from home or not, many people are feeling burned out during the coronavirus pandemic. A new survey found that nearly 90% of respondents in more than 40 countries felt that their work lives were getting worse during the pandemic. And more than 60% felt that they were experiencing burnout often or very often. Workplace burnout was a growing problem in many professions even before the pandemic. For example, burnout has been common among physicians and health care workers for years.
Why We May Be Measuring Burnout All Wrong (click here)
The pandemic has pushed many to the brink. But although we're exhausted and overwhelmed, some experts say we're not actually as burned out as we may think. We tend to think of burnout as an intangible – one of those things we can’t define, and we just know when we feel it. Right now, more of us may be feeling it than ever. In this stage of the pandemic, after more than a year spent trying to navigate its challenges, the general feeling is that we’ve all hit the wall. But there is a scientific definition of burnout, and standards by which to measure it. And based on that criteria, a lot of folks who think they’re burnt out – myself included – really aren’t. That doesn’t mean we aren’t on the way there, though, and understanding how to really measure burnout can help individuals and organisations change course before it’s too late.
Why Burnout Happens — and How Bosses Can Help (click here)
Christina Maslach, professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, has been studying the causes of burnout, and its impact, for decades. She says that, in a year when everyone feels overwhelmed and exhausted, it’s more important than ever for managers to recognize when and why employees are suffering and take steps to solve those problems. In her framework, burnout stems from not only large workloads but also lack of control, community, and/or reward and values mismatches.
Christina Maslach On Job Burnout (click here)
John Willis (Botchagalupe) is someone who is passionate about so many topics around DevOps, Cloud and technology. One of the areas he is really passionate about though is the topic of burn out and fatigue in the IT field. He has really shepherded this topic in past DevOps Enterprise Summits. This year he was lucky enough to have Professor Christina Maslach join him at DOES to take a deeper dive into the topic. In this interview John and professor Maslach really get into the topic as well as the framework/ models that Professor Maslach has pioneered.