Stress And Burnout In Nursing Home Staff
Stress and Burnout
Jessica Bright
Dr. Sheila Schmitz
OMM618 Human Resources Management
July 15, 2013
Stress and Burn Out
In society people desire to obtain a job that will make them happy, and successful. Companies and organizations desire to run a successful and profitable company with happy, productful, responsible employees. Sometimes the plan does not always go according to the blueprint that it was based off. Employees become burnout and stressed due to work related and personal problems. In dealing with work-related stress and being burnout, both employees and employers face problems. The negative affects of stress can affect employees health and well being which will ultimately cause a decline in production and revenue. …show more content…
Northrop (1996) discussed in the article “Stress, Social Support, and Burnout in Nursing Home Staff” how staff burnout presented a danger to the mental and physical well being of the human-service workers. Human service workers being burnout often weakened the quality and competence of the care that they could provide; thus representing a threat to their patients and cost to employers (Northrop, 2006). Even though at the time there were not much experimental investigations of the stress-burnout relations; correlational studies have shown that the higher levels of job stress links with higher levels of …show more content…
The research question used in the study was “What is the relationship between role related stress, as measured by conflict, ambiguity and overload, in predicting work engagement, work burnout and turnover intent among non-exempt level employees? A survey was given out with a total of 76 questions divided into the 5 sections, which included: conflict, engagement, burnout, satisfaction with managers, and turnover retention. The Oldenburg burnout inventory of Demerouti, Stress diagnostic survey of Ivencevich Matterson and Supervisor measure of Scarpello and Vandendburg were used to measure the answers (Caponetti, 2012). The results of the survey have an overall response of low levels of stress, medium levels of burnout, engagement and turnover. The employees were overall happy with their
Jessica Bright
Dr. Sheila Schmitz
OMM618 Human Resources Management
July 15, 2013
Stress and Burn Out
In society people desire to obtain a job that will make them happy, and successful. Companies and organizations desire to run a successful and profitable company with happy, productful, responsible employees. Sometimes the plan does not always go according to the blueprint that it was based off. Employees become burnout and stressed due to work related and personal problems. In dealing with work-related stress and being burnout, both employees and employers face problems. The negative affects of stress can affect employees health and well being which will ultimately cause a decline in production and revenue. …show more content…
Northrop (1996) discussed in the article “Stress, Social Support, and Burnout in Nursing Home Staff” how staff burnout presented a danger to the mental and physical well being of the human-service workers. Human service workers being burnout often weakened the quality and competence of the care that they could provide; thus representing a threat to their patients and cost to employers (Northrop, 2006). Even though at the time there were not much experimental investigations of the stress-burnout relations; correlational studies have shown that the higher levels of job stress links with higher levels of …show more content…
The research question used in the study was “What is the relationship between role related stress, as measured by conflict, ambiguity and overload, in predicting work engagement, work burnout and turnover intent among non-exempt level employees? A survey was given out with a total of 76 questions divided into the 5 sections, which included: conflict, engagement, burnout, satisfaction with managers, and turnover retention. The Oldenburg burnout inventory of Demerouti, Stress diagnostic survey of Ivencevich Matterson and Supervisor measure of Scarpello and Vandendburg were used to measure the answers (Caponetti, 2012). The results of the survey have an overall response of low levels of stress, medium levels of burnout, engagement and turnover. The employees were overall happy with their