Burnout at Work

Michael P. Leiter is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Psychology Department at Acadia University, Canada.Arnold B. Bakker is Professor in the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Christina Maslach is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

"Edited by three leading figures in the field, this timely volume provides an overview of new and emerging perspectives on burnout. It will provide practitioners and professionals with an accessible volume on the state of play in the field, whilst also providing an opportunity to consider issues of practice and intervention." - Philip Dewe, Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, UK"This book brings together a set of excellent chapters that summarize state-of-the-art knowledge on burnout. It provides a well-balanced combination of more traditional and more novel topics, covering research findings, research methods, and intervention approaches. This book is an excellent resource for all who want to learn more about burnout!" - Sabine Sonnentag, Department of Psychology, University of Mannheim, Germany

• 1. Overview, Leiter Bakker Maslach. 2. Burnout and Health Kirsi Ahola & Jari Hakanen. 3. Individual Strategies to Prevent BurnoutEvangelia Demerouti. 4. The Good and Bad of Working RelationshipsArla Day & Michael P. Leiter.5. Daily Burnout ExperiencesDespoina Xanthopoulou & Laurenz L. Meier.6. The Influence of Constructive and Destructive Leadership Behaviors on Follower BurnoutKimberley Breevaart, Arnold B. Bakker, Jørn Hetland & Hilde Hetland. 7. Multilevel Models of BurnoutJonathon R. B. Halbesleben & Matthew R. Leon.8. Interventions to Prevent and Alleviate BurnoutMichael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach