Managing the Engagement-burnout Scale

• Library: Positive Professionals: Creating High-Performing Profitable Firms Through Engagement (ABA) (2017 Ed.)

Managing the Engagement-Burnout Scale

The causes of engagement and burnout can be understood using a conceptually simple balancing framework, which I'll call the Engagement-Burnout Scale. (See Figure 3.) To visualize this framework, think of a scale—the kind that looks like our familiar scales of justice (not the kind you stand on, like the one under my bathroom sink that torments me). On one end of the scale, think of all of the draining aspects of our jobs, which I'll call Stressors. These consume energy...