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Managing Burnout in the Workplace

Author Catherine Cotter , Nancy McCormack
Release Date: 2013/10/01
ISBN: 9781843347347
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Book Description

Information professionals are under constant stress. Libraries are ushering in sweeping changes that involve the closing of branches and reference desks, wholesale dumping of print, disappearing space, and employment of non-professional staff to fill what have traditionally been the roles of librarians. Increasing workloads, constant interruptions, ceaseless change, continual downsizing, budget cuts, repetitive work, and the pressures of public services have caused burnout in many information professionals.

Managing Burnout in the Workplace concentrates on the problem of burnout, what it is and how it differs from chronic stress, low morale, and depression. The book addresses burnout from psychological, legal, and human resources perspectives. Chapters also cover how burnout is defined, symptom recognition, managing and overcoming burnout, and how to avoid career derailment while coping with burnout.

  • Focuses on burnout in relation to information professionals and their work
  • Explores how burnout is identified and diagnosed and how it is measured in the workplace
  • Provides an overview of interdisciplinary research on burnout, incorporating studies from various areas

Table of Contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. About the authors
  6. Chapter 1: What is burnout?
    1. Abstract:
    2. Introduction
    3. What is burnout?
    4. Conclusion
  7. Chapter 2: Factors contributing to burnout
    1. Abstract:
    2. Introduction
    3. Individual and socio-demographic factors
    4. Environmental and organizational factors
    5. Conclusion
  8. Chapter 3: Burnout and information professionals: how we got this way
    1. Abstract:
    2. Introduction
    3. Sources of workplace stress
    4. Conclusion
  9. Chapter 4: Are information professionals burned out?: Research and opinion
    1. Abstract:
    2. Introduction
    3. Research and opinion
    4. Conclusion
  10. Chapter 5: How burnout is measured in the workplace
    1. Abstract:
    2. Introduction
    3. Burnout survey instruments
    4. Conclusion
  11. Chapter 6: Burnout: the legal perspective
    1. Abstract:
    2. Introduction
    3. Burnout, stress, or post-traumatic stress?
    4. Power imbalance between employees and employers
    5. Canada
    6. United States
    7. United Kingdom
    8. Conclusion
  12. Chapter 7: Gender, burnout and work-related stress
    1. Abstract:
    2. Introduction
    3. Gender, burnout and work–related stress
    4. Conclusion
  13. Chapter 8: Symptom recognition and preventing burnout
    1. Abstract:
    2. Introduction
    3. What the employee can do: burnout prevention in six job domains
    4. What the employer can do: burnout prevention in six job domains
    5. Conclusion
  14. Chapter 9: Managing and overcoming burnout
    1. Abstract:
    2. Introduction
    3. Conclusion: the joy of burnout
  15. Index