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Over Engagement, Protective or Risk Factor of Burnout?

In: Sustainable Management Practices

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  • Josep M Blanch
  • Paola Ochoa
  • Maria Fernanda Caballero

Abstract

Megatrends in the organization and management of work promote intensification and acceleration processes in the form of overload and overtime. These processes, in a framework of deregulation and individualization of labor relations, constitute burnout risk factors. To tackle this contemporary pandemic, the positive occupational psychology proposes engagement as a strategic resource for preventing that syndrome, delaying its appearance, or cushioning its effects. The present study is based on the suspicion that engagement, in addition to functioning as a means of protection against burnout, may also constitute a risk factor for this pathology. The purpose of its exposition is to contextualize, situate, and argue the logic of this approach, and to advance a response proposal to the question about in which circumstances the engagement constitutes a risk factor of burnout: in moderate doses, it works as a protective factor of burnout, while in excessive doses, it acts as a risk factor by hiding the warning signs of the syndrome.

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  • Josep M Blanch & Paola Ochoa & Maria Fernanda Caballero, 2019. "Over Engagement, Protective or Risk Factor of Burnout?," Chapters, in: Muddassar Sarfraz & Muhammad Ibrahim Adbullah & Abdul Rauf & Syed Ghulam Meran Shah (ed.), Sustainable Management Practices, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:169039
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.81746
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    Keywords

    burnout; engagement; protective factor; risk factor; occupational health;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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