Research: Burnout in the Workplace and the Professions

Burnout is a condition that often occurs in occupations and workplaces where there is a seemingly limitless demand for working harder, combined with a severe form of hyper-perfectionism. Often it can be a byproduct of working in a toxic workplace environment where stress, trauma and deteriorating mental health is a common ingredient of employees’ workplace experiences.

If you have recognized that you are personally experiencing or reaching a burnout stage in your career, I encourage you to contact me for support.

These resources should aid you in assessing your feelings and burnout risks at the present time.

General References

• New Outlook on Burnout for 2023: Limitations on What Managers Can do, by Bryan Robinson, Ph.D., published in Forbes
• The Top 5 Things You Don’t Know about Burnout in 2023, from Shiftthework.com
• 3 Signs You Have Career Burnout (2022), by J. T. O’Donnell, from LinkedIn
• Burnout: A Guide, from Psychology Today
• Are We All Burning Out? (2022), by Jonathan Malesic, from the Chronicle of Higher Education 
• Faculty Members are Suffering Burnout: These Strategies could Help (2021), by Emma Pettit, from the Chronicle of Higher Education 
• How to Cope with Covid-19 Burnout (2020), from the Chronicle of Higher Education 
• Remote Workers Experiencing Burnout (2020), by Roy Maurer, from the Society for Human Resource Management
•  Is Burnout Actually a Form of Depression?(2020), from Psychology Today
• Stress, Burnout and You: Conversation with Professor Christina Maslach (2020), from the 2020 Annual ASA Cybersecurity Conference
• Stress and Burnout: Statistics and Facts (2019), by John Elflein
•  Workplace Burnout and Loneliness: What You Need to Know (2019), by Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, published in Psychology Today
•  What is Burnout? How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed at Work (2019), by Ginny Graves, from Health.com
• 4 Things to Do When You’re Burning Out at Work (2019), by Susan Biali Haas, M.D., published in Psychology Today
• The Truth about Teacher Burnout: It’s Work-Induced Depression, 2018 study from the American Psychological Association’s Psych Learning Curve
• 4 Ideas for Avoiding Faculty Burnout (2018), by David Gooblar, published in the Chronicle of Higher Education
• The Battle Against Burnout, by Bethany Bray (2018), from the American Counseling Association’s journal Counseling Today
• The Prevalence and Cause(s) of Burnout among Applied Psychologists: A Systematic Review (2018), by Hannah M. McCormack et. al, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology
• Employee Burnout, Part 1: The 5 Main Causes (2018)
• Employee Burnout, Part 2: What Managers Can Do (2018) 
• Employee Burnout, Part 3: How Organizations Can Stop Burnout (2018), by Ben Wigert &  Sangeeta Agrawal, from the Gallup Organization
• How to Prevent Employee Burnout: HR professionals share their advice for minimizing worker stress and boosting retention (2017), by Dori Meinert, from the Society for Human Resource Management 
• Psychosocial Interventions for Managing Occupational Stress and Burnout Among Medical Doctors: A Systematic Review (2017), by Bonnie Clough et al, published in the journal Systematic Reviews
• Burnout: A Short Socio-Cultural History (2017), by Wilmar B. Schaufeli, published in the book Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion (edited by S. Neckel et al
• Work-Life Balance and Social Support as Predictors of Burnout: An Exploratory Analysis (2017), by Turker Tugsal and Beliz Ulgen, published in the International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
• Burnout and the Brain (2016), by Alexandra Michel, published in the journal Psychological Science
• Teetering on the Edge of Burnout? Don’t Avoid People(2016), by Susan Biali Haas M.D., published in Psychology Today
• Perfectionism in Employees: Work Engagement, Workaholism, and Burnout (2015), by Joachim Stoeber and Lavinia E. Damian, from the text Perfectionism, Health, and Well-Being (eds: Fuschia M. Sirois and Danielle S. Molnar)
• Understanding Job Burnout, a 2014 video presentation by Emeritus UC Berkeley Psychology Professor Christina Maslach
• (Historical reference) Job Burnout (2001), by Christina Maslach, Wilmar B. Schaufeli, and Michael P. Leiter, originally published in the Annual Reviews of Psychology
• (Historical reference) Burnout as a Developmental Process: Consideration of Models (1993), by Michael Leiter
• (Historical reference) Historical and Conceptual Development of Burnout (1993), by Christina Maslach and Wilmar B. Schaufeli

Academic Literature

2020-2023

• {NEW} An Adaptive Modelling Approach to Employee Burnout in the Context of the Big Five Personality Traits (2023), by Anna Bashkirova, et. al, published in the journal Cognitive Systems Research
• {NEW} The Great Resignation in Higher Education: An Occupational Health Approach to Understanding Intentions-to-quit for Faculty in Higher Education (2023), by E Schmeidehaus, et. al, published in the journal Teaching and Teacher Education
• {NEW} How Does Organizational Career Management Benefit Employees? The Impact of the “Enabling” and “Energizing” Paths of Organizational Career Management on Employability and Job Burnout (2023), by Mengying Xie, et. al, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research in Public Health, special issue devoted to Job Satisfaction and Stress in the Workplace
• {PREVIEW} The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives (2022), by Jonathan Malesic (preview copy of textbook published by University of California Press)
• {NEW} How to Prevent and Combat Employee Burnout and Create Healthier Workplaces during Crises and Beyond (2022), by Kelly P. Gabriel & Herman Aguinis, published in the journal Business Horizons
• {NEW} Employee Burnout: The Dark Side of Performance-Driven Work Climates (2022), by Franzisca Fastje, et. al, published in the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance
• {NEW} The Paradoxical Relationship between Employee Burnout and Voice on Well-being (2022), by Marissa Shandell & Michael Parke, published in the journal Academy of Management
• {NEW} Gender Role Perspectives and Job Burnout (2022), by Benjamin Artz, et. al, published in the journal The Review of International Organizations
• {NEW} The Impact of Online Teaching on Stress and Burnout of Academics During the Transition to Remote Teaching from Home (2022), by Sultan M. Mosleh, et. al, published in the journal BMC Medical Education
• {NEW} University Students’ Interest and Burnout Profiles and their Relation to Approaches to Learning and Achievement (2022), by Henna Asikainen, et. al, published in the journal Learning and Individual Differences
• {NEW} Student Burnout in Higher Education: A Demand-Resource Model Approach (2022), by Balazs Jagodics & Eva Szabo, published in the journal Trends in Psychology
• {NEW} Reducing Employee Burnout: The Role of Organizations (2022), by Aixa E. Evenson, Master’s degree Capstone Project, Winona State University
• {NEW} Addressing Social Workers’ Stress, Burnout, and Resiliency: A Qualitative Study with Supervisors (2022), published in the journal Social Work Research
• {NEW} A Mixed Methods Analysis of Burnout and Turnover Intentions Among Higher Education Professionals During COVID-19 (2022), by Jake D. Winfield and Joseph H. Paris (preprint), from the text Higher Education Working Conditions in COVID-19
• {NEW} Striking a Balance between Work and Play: The Effects of Work-Life Interference and Burnout on Faculty Turnover Intentions and Career Satisfaction (2022), by Sheila A. Boamah, et. al, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• {NEW} University Teachers’ Well-being During the Pandemic: The Experiences of Five Academics (2021), by Edwin Creely, et. al, published in the journal Research Papers in Education
• {NEW} Study of the Prevalence of Burnout in University Professors in the Period 2005-2020 (2021), by Ivan Fernandez-Suarez, et. al, published in the journal Education Research International
• {NEW} How to Prevent and Combat Employee Burnout and Create Healthier Workplaces During Crises and Beyond (2021), by Kelly P. Gabriel & Herman Aguinis, published in the journal Business Horizons
• {NEW} The Boundary Conditions under which Teaching-Research Conflict Leads to University Teachers’ Job Burnout (2021), by Weihe Lei, et. al, published in the journal Studies in Higher Education
• {NEW} Burnout Among Healthcare Professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study (2021), by Mohammad Jalili, et. al, published in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
• {NEW} Burnout Among Surgeons in the UK During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cohort Study (2021), by Jonathan Houdmont, et. al, published in the World Journal of Surgery
• {NEW} Introduction to Burnout and Trauma-related Employment Stress (2021), by Melissa L. Holland, et. al, published in the text Burnout and Trauma-Related Stress
• {NEW} Occupational Stress in University Academics in Australia and New
  Zealand (2021), by Megan Lee, et. al, published in the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
• {NEW} Psychometric Properties of the German Short Version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory–Student Survey (2021), published in the European Journal of Health Psychology
• {NEW} A Mixed Method Analysis of Burnout and Turnover among Higher Education Professionals During COVID-19 (2021), by Jake D. Winfield and Joseph H. Paris, published in Higher Education Working Conditions in COVID-19 (Temple University Press)
• {NEW} Organizational Strategies for Addressing Burnout and Trauma-Related Employment Stress (2021), published in the text Burnout and Trauma-Related Stress
• The Association Between Psychological Capital and Burnout: The Moderating Effect of Job Fulfillment (2021), by Farah Iqbal & Mawish Saeed, published in the International Journal of Innovation
• The Burden of Burnout among Healthcare Professionals of Intensive Care Units and Emergency Departments during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review (2021), by Maria Rosaria Gualano, et. al, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• Does Burnout Affect Academic Achievement? A Meta-Analysis of Over 100,000 Students (2020), by Daniel J. Madigan & Thomas Curran (2020), published in the journal Educational Psychology Review
• Burnout among Cancer Professionals during COVID-19 (2020), by Talha Khan Burki, published in The Lancet: Ocology
• Relationships Between Work-Related Hazards and Occupational Burnout among Academics: Are Active Coping Strategies Important? (2020), by Iwona Werner & Agnieszka Springer, published in the International Journal of Management in Education
• Job Demands–Resources Theory and Self-Regulation: New Explanations and Remedies for Job Burnout (2020), by Arnold B. Bakker & Juriena D. de Vries, published in the journal Anxiety, Stress & Coping
  
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