Occupational burnout and work motivation
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burnout, occupational burnout, work motivation, engagement, burnout prevention, burnout interventionAbstract
The article presents relationship between occupational burnout and work motivation. The most popular concepts of burnout are motivational theories, based on an assumption that burnout concerns highly motivated employees, who experience disappointment and frustration of their idealistic and/or unrealistic job expectations at work connected with intensive interpersonal contact with patients, pupils, clients. A concept of burnout as an opposite to engagement with its most essential element of sustainable motivation and satisfaction has been described.
Environmental, situational and individual factors facilitating burnout have been presented. Methods of preventing burnout as well as methods of contending with it and those dealing with minimising its effects have been described; recovering work motivation by focusing attention on building engagement, instead of contending with negative aspects facilitating occupational burnout. When burnout is counteracted with engagement, three dimensions of burnout are replaced by dimensions of engagement: emotional exhaustion is changed into enthusiasm, bitterness into compassion and empathy, and finally lowered self-efficacy into efficacy and self-competence.
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