18 Burnout From an Extended Social Model Perspective: Lived Experiences of Burnout, Lasting Burnout Effects and Returning to Work
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Frederike Scholz
Abstract
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, workplaces were already creating a pandemic leading to the burnout of its workers. Depending on the severity, burnout can result in extended periods of inability to work, after which individuals potentially return to work. However, the effects of burnout are often not over when individuals return to their workplace, not only as it can impact their future careers, but also as individuals can experience lasting burnout effects. Despite recognizing the role of organizational causes, research on burnout and interventions adopts a largely individualized, medical and psychological lens. Adopting a disability studies lens, this chapter aims to go beyond this individualized view of burnout and draws on 13 interviews with individuals who had a burnout to explore their experiences with burnout, lasting burnout effects and their return to work. We show how the predominant ways of thinking about burnout result in it being largely approached as an individual failure rather than an organizational problem. This leads to organizational sources of burnout being unaddressed and forces individuals returning to work to conform again to the norms of the economic system that led to their burnout in the first place.
Abstract
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, workplaces were already creating a pandemic leading to the burnout of its workers. Depending on the severity, burnout can result in extended periods of inability to work, after which individuals potentially return to work. However, the effects of burnout are often not over when individuals return to their workplace, not only as it can impact their future careers, but also as individuals can experience lasting burnout effects. Despite recognizing the role of organizational causes, research on burnout and interventions adopts a largely individualized, medical and psychological lens. Adopting a disability studies lens, this chapter aims to go beyond this individualized view of burnout and draws on 13 interviews with individuals who had a burnout to explore their experiences with burnout, lasting burnout effects and their return to work. We show how the predominant ways of thinking about burnout result in it being largely approached as an individual failure rather than an organizational problem. This leads to organizational sources of burnout being unaddressed and forces individuals returning to work to conform again to the norms of the economic system that led to their burnout in the first place.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents VII
- List of Contributors XI
- Introduction: Workplace Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities – Contemporary Assumptions, Definitions, and Concepts to Guide Research and Practice 1
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Part 1: Framing the Discussion
- 1 Overview of Disability Paradigms in Disability and Management Research 21
- 2 The Future of Disability Research in the Workplace 35
- 3 The Current and Future Law of Accommodation 49
- 4 Organisational Disability Measurement and Reporting in the UK 63
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Part 2: Intersectionality
- 5 COVID-19 and Employment Losses for Workers with Disabilities: An Intersectional Approach 83
- 6 Age, Mental Disorders and Work Design Factors 105
- 7 Workplace Accommodations for Employees with Concealable Identities: An Overview of Theoretical Paradigms and Review of Empirical Research 125
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Part 3: Social Reactions to Disability
- 8 Understanding the Complexity of Disability Stigma and its Consequences for Workers and Organizations 145
- 9 Managers’ Reactions to Job Applicants and Employees with Disabilities 159
- 10 The Influence of a “Best Employer Award” on Hiring Managers’ Beliefs and Intentions to Hire People with Disabilities 173
- 11 Leaders with Disabilities: A Boardroom Challenge 189
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Part 4: The Role of Context
- 12 A Disability Contingency Framework for the Workplace 207
- 13 Temporal Challenges at the Intersection of Mental Illness and Work 221
- 14 Organizational Culture’s Influence on Employing People with Disabilities 237
- 15 Tensions in the Management of Disabled Individuals: The Case of the Sheltered Sector in France 249
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Part 5: Expanding Disability Definitions
- 16 Reframing Management of Organisational Neurodiversity in Australia: A Contextual Approach 267
- 17 Neuroqueerness and Management Research 287
- 18 Burnout From an Extended Social Model Perspective: Lived Experiences of Burnout, Lasting Burnout Effects and Returning to Work 305
- 19 Sanism: An Inquiry into and Critique of the Workplace Exclusion of People with Serious Mental Illness 319
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Part 6: Research and Practice
- 20 Disability-Inclusive Online Outreach and Recruitment for Employers 335
- 21 To Tell or Not to Tell? Co-Developing an Interactive Online Tool That Supports Employees with Invisible Disabilities to Make a High-Quality Disclosure Decision 353
- 22 Challenging Disability Inequality Embedded Within the Online Recruitment Process 369
- 23 Fostering Disability Inclusion through Evidence-Based Research-Practice Collaborations – Challenges and Key Success Factors 383
- List of Figures 403
- List of Tables 405
- About the Editors 407
- Index 409
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents VII
- List of Contributors XI
- Introduction: Workplace Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities – Contemporary Assumptions, Definitions, and Concepts to Guide Research and Practice 1
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Part 1: Framing the Discussion
- 1 Overview of Disability Paradigms in Disability and Management Research 21
- 2 The Future of Disability Research in the Workplace 35
- 3 The Current and Future Law of Accommodation 49
- 4 Organisational Disability Measurement and Reporting in the UK 63
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Part 2: Intersectionality
- 5 COVID-19 and Employment Losses for Workers with Disabilities: An Intersectional Approach 83
- 6 Age, Mental Disorders and Work Design Factors 105
- 7 Workplace Accommodations for Employees with Concealable Identities: An Overview of Theoretical Paradigms and Review of Empirical Research 125
-
Part 3: Social Reactions to Disability
- 8 Understanding the Complexity of Disability Stigma and its Consequences for Workers and Organizations 145
- 9 Managers’ Reactions to Job Applicants and Employees with Disabilities 159
- 10 The Influence of a “Best Employer Award” on Hiring Managers’ Beliefs and Intentions to Hire People with Disabilities 173
- 11 Leaders with Disabilities: A Boardroom Challenge 189
-
Part 4: The Role of Context
- 12 A Disability Contingency Framework for the Workplace 207
- 13 Temporal Challenges at the Intersection of Mental Illness and Work 221
- 14 Organizational Culture’s Influence on Employing People with Disabilities 237
- 15 Tensions in the Management of Disabled Individuals: The Case of the Sheltered Sector in France 249
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Part 5: Expanding Disability Definitions
- 16 Reframing Management of Organisational Neurodiversity in Australia: A Contextual Approach 267
- 17 Neuroqueerness and Management Research 287
- 18 Burnout From an Extended Social Model Perspective: Lived Experiences of Burnout, Lasting Burnout Effects and Returning to Work 305
- 19 Sanism: An Inquiry into and Critique of the Workplace Exclusion of People with Serious Mental Illness 319
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Part 6: Research and Practice
- 20 Disability-Inclusive Online Outreach and Recruitment for Employers 335
- 21 To Tell or Not to Tell? Co-Developing an Interactive Online Tool That Supports Employees with Invisible Disabilities to Make a High-Quality Disclosure Decision 353
- 22 Challenging Disability Inequality Embedded Within the Online Recruitment Process 369
- 23 Fostering Disability Inclusion through Evidence-Based Research-Practice Collaborations – Challenges and Key Success Factors 383
- List of Figures 403
- List of Tables 405
- About the Editors 407
- Index 409