6. 10 Ways Organizations Create
Burnout
1. Poor leadership
2. Lack of caring by the organization
3. Role of other employees
4. Politics or sabotage
5. Lack of organizational resources
6. Over-emphasis on return on investment (ROI)
7. Work overload
8. Poor communication
9. Unethical or illegal requests
10. No vision or direction by change leaders
7. But recovery from burnout is
… slow (2 years in average)
• BURNOUT
• Physical or psychological removal
• Self-knowledge and acceptance
•Revised psychological contract
8. Why it’s so tough to recover?
The burnout triumvirate
• Personality
• Over-achiever, “star” employee
• Physical symptoms
• Fatigue, irritability
• Inability to concentrate
• Chronic/acute disease
• Organization
• Leadership, culture policies
9. As future leaders…
• When you go to leadership and management
positions, remember the HUMANITY of your
workforce!
• Keep the human in human resources!
