Burnout: a real threat to human resources managers.
Burnout, the total depletion of one's physical and mental resources, was first recognized as a syndrome among professionals in the helping professions: teaching, nursing, and social work, for example. Small wonder, then, that human resources managers, whose jobs are concerned with people and their problems, are prime candidates for burnout. To help human resources managers combat burnout in themselves and those for whom they are responsible, Oliver L. Niehouse, head of Niehouse & Associates Inc., management and organization development consultants, shows how to recognize the symptoms of burnout and the stress that precedes it and explains what can be done to prevent or cure it. The Niehouse prescription for counteracting stress symptoms that lead to burnout involves building supports that displace or drain off the stress. To build such supports, one must first recognize the need for support, acknowledge the potential for burnout, and then set realistic, achievable goals.
D006801:Humans; D010559:Personnel Management; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control*