Winter wonders about the responsibility for practicing mindfulness: individuals or organizations? Research suggests that focusing on job person fit leads to healthier workplaces and social change. Six elements of a healthy workplace include sustainable workload, choice and control, recognition and reward, a supportive work community, fairness and respect, and clear values. Prevention is emphasized over treatment, and organizational intervention is preferred over individual intervention.
What’s the difference between being busy and being productive? Would you be better at your job if you cared a little less? And can somebody get Mike a cup of coffee?
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- "State of the Global Workplace: 2023 Report," (Gallup, 2023).
- "What’s Really So Wrong About Secretly Working Two Full-Time Jobs at Once?" by Alison Green (Slate, 2023).
- "The Problem With Venting," by Ethan Kross (Character Lab, 2021).
- "Conan O'Brien's Final Monologue: 'Nobody in Life Gets What They Thought They Were Going to Get,'" by Lynette Rice (Entertainment Weekly, 2020).
- "Employee Burnout, Part 1: The 5 Main Causes," by Ben Wigert and Sangeeta Agrawal (Gallup, 2018).
- "Finding Solutions to the Problem of Burnout," by Christina Maslach (Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 2017).
- "Maslach Burnout Inventory: Third Edition," by Christina Maslach, Susan E. Jackson, and Michael P. Leiter (Evaluating Stress: A Book of Resources, 1997).
- Burnout: The High Cost of High Achievement, by Herbert Freudenberger and Geraldine Richelson (1980).
- "Staff Burn-Out," by Herbert Freudenberger (Journal of Social Issues, 1974).
- "Dehumanization in Institutional Settings," by Christina Maslach and Philip Zimbardo (U.S. Office of Naval Research, 1973).
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