BEATING JOB BURNOUT --- OVERCOME JOB FRUSTRATION, RENEW YOUR
ENTHUSIASM FOR WORK by Beverly A. Potter. Harbor Publishing, 1980
All you can do in this life is to gather about you people with integrity, imagination and
individuality --- and with these ever with you out in front, "leap" into the "dance" of experience:
Be your own master!
Be your own Jesus!
Be your own flying saucer!
Rescue yourself!
Be your own Valentine!
Free your own Heart!
(From Tom Robbins book, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues")
CONTENTS
1) The "burnout" syndrome (1-9)
Quote by Albert Camus: "Without work, all life goes rotten, but
when work is soulless, life tifles and dies."
Soulless work is parasitic, feeding on enthusiasm until motivation goes dry.
Skills and knowledge may remain intact, but the "will to do" is diminished.
Smothering the will, burnout is a "malaise" of the spirit. (p1)
2) Causes of burnout (p10-31)
3) Are you burning out? (p32-51)
4) Rewriting burnout programs (p52-70)
5) Regulating activation level (p71-88)
6) Mastery --- programming skills (p89-102)
7) Tailor the job to fit you (103-119)
8) Changing jobs (p120-138)
9) Thought control (p139-154)
10) Detached concern (p155-178)
APPENDIX A -- What companies can do (p179-198)
[1] Important ingredients
1) Flextime (p180)
2) Incentive programs (p181-182)
3) Deorganizing (182-183)
4) Participation (p183)
5) Goal-setting (p183)
6) Feedback (p184)
7) Quality supervision (p184)
[2] Experiments
1) Quality-control circles
2) The "Esprit De Corp" experiment (p185-188)
APPENDIX B -- Relaxation exercise (p199-200)
APPENDIX C -- Programming cookbook (p201-204)
AFTERTHOUGHT -- Surviving the future (p205-212)