Learn what you can do to improve your company culture and avoid burning out your employees. We need to raise the awareness that it's about the environment, not the people. Learn about reasons for Burnout and concrete actions in the slideshare.
Reasons for burnout and how companies can prevent it - kiwiHR
1. Reasons for burnout and how
companies can prevent it
It's about the
environment,
not the people
2. Why is this topic so
important?
“Burnout” has now officially been recognized by the
World Health Organization (WHO). The condition costs
the global workforce an estimated $1 trillion in lost
productivity each year according to a recent WHO
study.
But the good news is that it can be prevented. More
and more studies show that it’s not about a single
person but rather an organizational problem. That’s why
it’s so important that leaders take responsibility and
invest in prevention and implement a burnout strategy.
Reasons for burnout and how companies can prevent it
3. What is the definition of
“burnout”?
According to the WHO, occupational burnout is a
syndrome resulting from chronic work-related stress,
with symptoms characterized by:
Feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion
Increased mental distance from one’s job
Feelings of negativism or cynicism related to
one's job
Reduced professional efficacy
Reasons for burnout and how companies can prevent it
4. How to implement a
burnout strategy
Understand potential problems. Ask yourself as a
leader what is making your staff so stressed. What do
your employees need to flourish? What can you do to
make the workplace a safe place that motivates
employees as opposed to one that causes frustration?
Frederick Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory
states that both basic needs and things that motivate
us need to be present in a workplace in order to be
satisfied. The researcher found out that satisfaction
and dissatisfaction are independent of each other.
Therefore both need to be taken into consideration.
Reasons for burnout and how companies can prevent it
5. What motivates your
employees?
Motivation factors include:
• Challenging work
• Recognition for one’s achievements
• Responsibility
• The opportunity to do something meaningful
• Involvement in decision making
• A sense of importance to the organization
Hygiene factors include:
• Salary
• Work conditions
• Company policy and administration
• Supervision
• Working relationships
• Status and security
Reasons for burnout and how companies can prevent it
6. What causes frustration
for your employees?
We saw that both hygiene and motivational factors
need to be present. If you recognize any of these
issues, use them as indicators to help you rethink your
leadership style and company culture in general.If you
recognize any of these issues, use them as indicators to
help you rethink your leadership style and company
culture in general:
○ Unfair treatment at work and conflicts
○ Unmanageable workload
○ Lack of role clarity
○ Lack of communication and support from the manager
○ Unreasonable time pressure
○ Lack of appreciation
○ A rigid work environment
Reasons for burnout and how companies can prevent it
7. How to create a positive
work environment?
Of course every employee is different and has individual
needs but there are some general means that you can
start with today to create a safe and positive work
environment.
Communicate and formulate positively
Encourage openness (also about work-related
dissatisfaction)
Allow space for creativity
Let people determine their own work rhythm or
schedule as much as possible
Appreciate people’s contributions
Reasons for burnout and how companies can prevent it
8. What can you do to
improve your work
environment?
Reach out to your team and ask them what they need
and how can you provide a better workplace
environment.
Both individual conversations and employee surveys can
help you identify which issues should be addressed and
help you prioritize them.
Create an open culture in which employees can find
support with one another by exchanging ideas about
what helped them.
Reasons for burnout and how companies can prevent it
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Harvard Business Review. 2021. Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People.
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Who.int. 2021. Mental health in the workplace. [online]
Sources:
PREVENTING BURNOUT
BURNOUT IS ABOUT YOUR WORKPLACE, NOT YOUR PEOPLE
MENTAL HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE
