BURNOUT

Human Service Worker Burnout

Human Service Worker Burnout

Introduction

The ideal situation for everyone is to live a life that is free from all sorts of tensions and stresses. A life in which, a person may acquire everything and every objective, without being too hard on him or herself. However, as earlier said, it is an ideal situation, the phenomenon of this world mainly works on realism, and in a realistic scenario, a person does face situations and circumstances in which he or she is coerced to faced the burdensome and stressed out circumstances (Kop Euwema & Schaufeli, 1999).

Stress

According to numerous researchers and scholars, stress over time has become quite a broad term that encompasses varying underlying factors that bear both the biological as well as psychological grounds. Stress, fundamentally means that any factor or things that may result in deteriorating our wellbeing; and may make us feel overburdened and overloaded.

Burnout

Intellectuals believe that the burnout is primarily the consequence of excessive stress that a person endures. Burnout typically refers to the feeling of lessened and ever decreasing interest, as well as excessive exhaustion. Burnout plays a vital role in causing the exhaustion in not only the emotional, but also in the emotional and mental domain of an individual's life. The burnout syndrome has been conceptualized as emotional exhaustion, which leads to a loss of motivation that often progresses to feelings of inadequacy and failure (Kirk-Brown & Wallace, 2004). Manifested by three symptoms: 1. emotional exhaustion, 2. Depersonalization, 3. Feelings of personal accomplishment. It is a continuous process of insidious onset, gradual occurring in the employment context. The causes are multiple and multiple sources of stress at work. The helping professions are the most affected workers initially in social and health services but also occurs in any occupation that deals with people. The syndrome has behavioral manifestations, attitudinal and psychosomatic.

Causes of Stress and Burnout for both Employers and Employees

The most comprehensible and apparent cause of stress and the burnout in the organization, is from the load, pressure, and demands of the work. There is a high possibility that the burnout may also encompass a few private and individual factors, as well; therefore, the work stress, coupled with personal anxiety can result in excessive burnout.

In an organization, there can be numerous reasons that may result in the excessive stress; a few of them can be summarized in factors that are the usual cause in almost all organizations for the stress. For instance, an organization in which the merit and progress is decided on the basis of one's performance, and hard work; in those circumstances, an employee is in constant endeavour to prove himself and his worth (Hamann & Gordon, 2000). Later on this ambition converts into compulsion, to live up to the consistent expectations. Moreover, the incessant hard work and the self made expectations and deadlines can make a person become obsessed with the quantity of work that he is normally accustomed to taking. The employees become so devoted to their work that gradually they start ...