Phases of Burnout: Developments in Concepts and Applications

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This book is a major revision of R. Golembiewski, R.F. Munzenrider, and J.G. Stevenson's Stress in Organizations: Toward a Phase Model of Burnout. The authors use some of the same basic data to develop the phase model of burnout, and then examine the support for the model that has emerged since the first book was published. . . . This is a logically constructed progression with a high level of statistical sophistication. The authors have included a great deal of data (presented in tables, graphs, and figures) and a comprehensive bibliography. The writing style is consistent with the content, producing a professional book suited for advanced students and specialists. Choice Phases of Burnout provides effective, practical methods of dealing with burnout. Including an easy-to-administer test of strain, the book describes norms to gauge the seriousness of burnout and to guide ameliorative efforts. The authors demonstrate how the incidence of burnout can be estimated with little cost and in various organizational settings. The test assigns individuals to one of eight phases of burnout. These phases co-vary with numerous personal and organizational measures of satisfaction and well-being. The phase model is thus the basis for efforts to remedy the widespread and persistent incidence of burnout.

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This book is a major revision of R. Golembiewski, R.F. Munzenrider, and J.G. Stevenson's Stress in Organizations: Toward a Phase Model of Burnout. The authors use some of the same basic data to develop the phase model of burnout, and then examine the support for the model that has emerged since the first book was published. The model is presented in Chapter 1; data collection sites are identified in Chapters 2 and 3; the data are analyzed in the next four chapters; and the final chapters discuss implications for research and intervention. This is a logically constructed progression with a high level of statistical sophistication. The authors have included a great deal of data (presented in tables, graphs, and figures) and a comprehensive bibliography. The writing style is consistent with the content, producing a professional book suited for advanced students and specialists.-Choice
"This book is a major revision of R. Golembiewski, R.F. Munzenrider, and J.G. Stevenson's Stress in Organizations: Toward a Phase Model of Burnout. The authors use some of the same basic data to develop the phase model of burnout, and then examine the support for the model that has emerged since the first book was published. The model is presented in Chapter 1; data collection sites are identified in Chapters 2 and 3; the data are analyzed in the next four chapters; and the final chapters discuss implications for research and intervention. This is a logically constructed progression with a high level of statistical sophistication. The authors have included a great deal of data (presented in tables, graphs, and figures) and a comprehensive bibliography. The writing style is consistent with the content, producing a professional book suited for advanced students and specialists."-Choice

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ROBERT T. GOLEMBIEWSKI is Research Professor at the University of Georgia, with special interest in change within large organizations, both public and business. He has published over 300 scholarly articles and contributions in a wide range of journals. He has also authored or edited 48 books, the last of which is High Performance and Human Costs (Praeger, 1988). He also consults with a range of businesses, including more than 20 years with SmithKline Beckman and its various subsidiary companies such as Allergan. ROBERT F. MUNZENRIDER is Associate Professor in the Master of Public Administration Program, and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Quality of Working Life, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. He has published widely in those literature, and is the co-author of Stress in Organizations (Praeger, 1986). He has consulted in both public and business arenas, as with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Menley-James.