Burnout among Employees: A Narrative Review
Suriya Kumareswaran
Abstract
In the past two decades, job burnout has rapidly become a part of everyone's lives. Employees experience burnout because of chronic job stressors. Job burnout is a prolonged response to persistent emotional and interpersonal stresses at work and is characterised by emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and diminishing personal accomplishment. This article explores the literature on burnout for readers to gain a better understanding of the condition. It proposes clarifying the dynamics of burnout, including the causes and consequences of its components.
Topics & Concepts
BurnoutEmotional exhaustionStressorPsychologyInterpersonal communicationSocial psychologyNarrativeDepersonalizationClinical psychologyLinguisticsPhilosophyHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnout