Which Leadership Style Leads to Burnout?
Research explores how different leadership styles are associated with different emotional strategies. What are the implications?
Categories : Burnout Health & Safety HR Policy Stress Work-Life Balance
Email Overload and the Harmful Effects of Telepressure
You sit down at your desk to start the workday and log in to your work email. “YOU’VE GOT (187 pieces of) MAIL!” You might just have email overload. Besides for being extremely annoying, you might feel pressured to quickly respond to all of these emails. This pressure now has a word: telepressure. Does telepressure make you more productive at work, or can it lead to harmful outcomes ultimately affecting an organization’s bottom line?
Categories : Burnout Health & Safety Job Satisfaction Staffing Work-Life Balance
Aging Workforce: Employees Who Are Healthy and in Control Stay Working
We have an aging workforce, and this presents a new set of challenges for I-O psychologists. For example, we need to learn more about what helps people decide between staying on the job or taking early retirement. Interestingly, a new study shows that personal resources, such as health and sense of control, may convince employees that they can still do their jobs. This can lead to fewer absences from work, less disability leave, and even delayed retirement.
Categories : Burnout Employee Satisfaction Health & Safety Job Satisfaction Wellness Work-Life Balance1 Comment
Caregivers in the Workplace: How to Improve Their Well-Being
Caregivers are people who assume responsibility for helping another person with daily living activities. But many caregivers are also full-time employees. With the increase of caregivers in the workforce, a new study shows how family and supervisor support can influence the mental health outcomes of these caregivers, and lead to improved well-being.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
How to Be Fair to Employees without Feeling Drained
Treating employees fairly is important to organizational success, but can nevertheless be a resource-intensive task. What can managers do about this?
Flow at Work: Recovery Affects Whether Employees will “Be in the Zone”
Experiencing workplace flow is like “being in the zone” and it increases productivity and performance. This study found that feeling recovered impacted the experience of flow during the day, highlighting the importance of recovering from spending energy at work.
Death Anxiety is Related to Burnout and Other Organizational Problems
Death scares some people more than others. New research shows that employees who have higher levels of death anxiety also experience more negative outcomes at work, such as increased burnout and absenteeism. Is there anything we can do about it?
The Connection Between Exhaustion & Psychological Detachment From Work
It’s a generally accepted fact that failing to put work aside will eventually exhaust employees. A recent German study published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology reveals that exhaustion can actually lead to a lack of mental disengagement from work, especially when employees are under tight timelines and don’t have adequate breaks for leisure activities.
Categories : *Academy of Management Journal Burnout Professional Identity
Self-Reflective Job Titles: A Cost-Effective Way to Reduce Emotional Exhaustion
Previous research has investigated expensive top-down interventions for burnout. A new study in the Academy of Management Journal proposes that encouraging employees to use self-reflective job titles can be a cost-effective alternative, as it has been found to effectively reduce emotional exhaustion through increasing self-verification and psychological safety.
Categories : Assessment Burnout
Can Personality Predict Burnout?
A new study suggests that certain personality traits may be able to predict manager burnout. Guess which ones they are.