The Origin of Burnout

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

The word burnout was appearing earlier. There were burnout shops in Silicon Valley in the 60s, 70s. I'm the daughter of an engineer who did work for NASA on rarefied gas dynamics. So there's a much longer history that goes before anybody was connecting it to something about the job.

Leading burnout expert Dr. Christina Maslach shares the fundamental causes of burnout and what individuals and organizations can do to fix them.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why burnout isn’t just an individual problem

2) The 6 key areas of job mismatch that cause burnout

3) What to do when you’re burnt out

Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep832 for clickable versions of the links below.

— ABOUT CHRISTINA —

Dr. Christina Maslach is Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at the University of California, Berkeley, and the co-creator of the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the most widely used instrument for measuring job burnout, and has written numerous articles and books, including The Truth About Burnout. In 2020 she received the Scientific Reviewing award from the National Academy of Sciences for her writing on burnout.

In 2021, she was named by Business Insider as one of the top 100 people transforming business. She also consults on the identification of sources of burnout and potential interventions.

• Book: The Burnout Challenge: Managing People’s Relationships with Their Jobs

• Website: Christina Maslach, UC Berkeley

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.