Making Sense of Work Life: A Structural Model of Burnout
By Michael Leiter, S. Gascón, Begona Martinez-Jarreta. 2010
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Hospital-based nurses (N = 832) and doctors (N = 603) in northern and eastern Spain completed a survey of job burnout, areas of work life, and management issues. Analysis of the results provides support for a mediation model of burnout that depicts employees’ energy, involvement, and efficacy as intermediary experiences between their experiences of work life and their evaluations of organizational change. The key element of this model is its focus on employees’ capacity to influence their work environments toward greater conformity with their core values. The model considers 3 aspects of that capacity: decision-making participation, organizational justice, and supervisory relationships. The analysis supports this model and emphasizes a central role for first-line supervisors in employees’ experiences of work life. jasp_563 57..75 The research questions of this study are threefold. First, the study evaluates a structural equation model in which the three aspects of burnout— exhaustion, cynicism, and efficacy—mediate the relationship of the work environment with employees’ evaluation of organizational change. Second, it examines a mediation model that proposes a structured approach to work life that depicts employees’ sense of control as a pivotal quality influencing their perspective on other aspects of work life while value congruence provides an integrative function, summarizing their overall evaluation of work life. Third, the research considers three perspectives on employees’ capacity to shape their work lives: decision-making authority, access to fair procedures, and relationships with supervisors.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- Determinants and prevalence of burnout in emergency nurses: a systematic review of 25 years of research. (2015, background): “Several studies emphasize the need of a good personironment fit in the prevention of burnout (Maslach and er, 2008; Leiter et al., 2010; Bakker et al., 2005; Mark and ith, 2008).”