By Statistics Solutions Team
Organizational burnout is the loss of interest and exhaustion of an employee towards his or her job. Unfortunately, those who experience burnout are those who are motivated, dedicated employees. Further, employees that burnout are the ones with work experience, the ones taking on responsibility, and taking meaning of life from their work. In short, these are the employees that management doesn’t want to lose.
The American Psychological Association (2007) report that over thirty percent of employees cite their job as significant source of stress, while the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Heath stated that stressed employees cost $300 billion per year in health care and missed work. These reports reinforce that the antecedents and consequences of occupational burnout should be examined.
In the context of predictive analytics, organizational burnout is not just an organizational statistic to describe; rather it is a predictor of other factors such as turnover, lower productivity, and higher health care costs. There are practical implications for companies that study and analyze organizational burnout. These burnout studies can reveal important predictors of particular metrics, as well as outcomes of certain organization behaviors.
