Abstract:

Job burnout is a phenomenon influencing management and health problems. It can ruin individual’s health, one’s family’s health, community in which the individual and his family live, and if the extent of this phenomenon is widespread, even a particular part of society, since society constitutes a system of interconnected subsystems functioning without any interferences only when all system components act without any problems. Job burnout is also a special phenomenon due to the fact that it impacts performance of organisations – that is why it is also a management issue.

Job burnout is very deceitful. It approaches and develops unnoticeably, and exhausts affected people often without their knowledge or consent to let thoughts connected with such knowledge to their consciousness. The best workers are concerned to experience job burnout, which is well reflected in words saying that “first you have to feel fire and enthusiasm within you to become a victim of job burnout”, which makes this issue very dangerous. That is why job burnout affects highly motivated work enthusiast, people aspiring to achieve success in professional life, doing meaningful and beneficial things, and not things which could potentially harm people. Job burnout also affects people working for others, with other people and for other people, which directly influences the most sensible social tissue: medical treatment, education of future generations, helping, protecting, saving and taking care of the quality of human life. It affects people full of enthusiasm and joy of work, perfectionists who perform their work in a meaningful and diligent way, people imposing themselves high requirements and the ones who are ambitious and active and love or enjoy their profession, since they perceive it as meaningful. That is why job burnout influences individuals for whom the sense of life – of course in a reasonable form, is created by profession being a source of success.