The Burnout Challenge

Managing People’s Relationships with Their Jobs

De: Christina Maslach, Michael P. Leiter

Narrado por: Chloe Cannon

Two pioneering researchers identify key causes of workplace burnout and reveal what managers can do to promote increased productivity and health.

Citing a wealth of research data and drawing on illustrative anecdotes, The Burnout Challenge shows how organizations can change to promote sustainable productivity. Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter provide useful tools for identifying the signs of employee burnout, most often exhaustion, cynicism, and ineffectiveness. They also advise managers on assembling and interpreting worker self-evaluation surveys, which can reveal workplace problems and potential solutions. And when it comes to implementing change, Maslach and Leiter offer practical, evidence-driven guidance. The key, they argue, is to begin with less-taxing changes that employees nonetheless find meaningful, seeding the ground for more thorough reforms in the future.

Experts estimate that more than $500 billion and 550 million workhours are lost annually to on-the-job stress, much of it caused by dysfunctional work environments. As priorities and policies shift across workplaces, The Burnout Challenge provides pragmatic, creative, and cost-effective solutions to improve employee efficiency, health, and happiness.

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In depth assessment of the causes of burnout

This book should be required reading for anyone that leads teams, especially if you work in a fast paced environment or are dealing with rrsourcr constraints. the strategies and concepts highlighted in this book as effective to combat burnout and the associated conditions we find in the workplace are solid gold

Outstanding book. Everyone who feels burned out should read it asap

This book is a roadmap for how America and the world can reimagine work. Systems that focus only on profit or productivity mirror authoritarian regimes, ignoring human beings and their need to connect, know they are doing work that matters and live with values that sustain the mind and body! Please read and share!

Terrible AI Narration

the book is helpful, and I'd like to finish it, but I don't think I can listen to it anymore because of the terrible AI narration. The intonation is all messed up, and it keeps dividing text into chunks in a way that feels just completely wrong.
Audible, why am I paying you? I can just get a digital copy of the text and use a screen reader to listen to an artificial narration. Very disappointing.

For organizations, not individuals

I liked the overall approach of identifying the causes of burnout.
However, it is geared towards organizations and a lot of time is spent on how to change organizations.