Abstract
Burnout can negatively affect both workers’ health and safety in an organization [1]. The current study was oriented to identify the main risk and protective factors, which might predict professional burnout among workers in an industrial plant in Lithuania using the Job demands-resources model [2, 3]. 249 industrial and 74 administrative workers from one organization filled out a self-administered questionnaire. Scales from COPSOQ II (Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire) were used in a cross-sectional survey. With reference to the research results, there were no significant differences in professional burnout between industrial and administrative workers. However, scores of work pace, safety climate, possibilities for development, influence at work, recognition and organizational justice were higher in a group of administrative employees as compared to their colleagues from the industrial departments. Moreover, different factors were found to predict employees’ physical, emotional and mental exhaustion: emotional demands predicted burnout in administrative workers’ group, while quantitative demands, work-family conflict, possibilities for development- among industrial workers. Organizational justice was the only protective factor to predict lower burnout in both groups of employees.
Highlights
In 2019 the World Health Organization [4] included professional burnout in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon
It was hypothesized that higher scores on job demands would be associated with higher professional burnout, while increased scores of job resources would show the negative relationship to burnout of employees
With reference to the literature findings presented above, it was hypothesized that: a) higher scores on job demands would be associated with higher professional burnout, while increased scores of job resources would show the negative relationship to burnout of employees; b) different job demands and job resources would predict professional burnout depending on employees’ positions
Summary
In 2019 the World Health Organization [4] included professional burnout in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon. Research findings confirmed that burnout could negatively affect workers’ health, productivity and even safety in an organization [1]. Safety issues are especially important in an industrial sector. The current study was oriented towards identifying main risk and protective factors predicting professional burnout among industrial workers in a chemical plant in Lithuania. Job demands-resources model [2, 3] was used to identify the main factors which could be related to employees’ physical, emotional and mental exhaustion. It was hypothesized that higher scores on job demands would be associated with higher professional burnout, while increased scores of job resources would show the negative relationship to the strain of employees
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