The Burnout Companion To Study And Practice - A Critical Analysis

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 and introduces individual inter- personal, workload, occupational, organizational, social and cultural factors.

List of contents

Burnout in perspective - "discovery" and content; symptoms and definitions; theoretical approaches to burnout - individual/social/organisational; empirical findings - measurement/prevalence; what burns out?; interventions.

About the author

Wilmar Schaufeli (Author) ,  D. Enzmann (Author)

Product details

• Authors: D. Enzmann, Wilmar Schaufeli
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.1998
• EAN: 9780748406975
• ISBN: 978-0-7484-0697-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Weight: 512 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; MEDICAL / Public Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Management & management techniques, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Management and management techniques, Public health and preventive medicine