Work Context and Burnout: Confirmation of Moderators from Meta-analysis Evidence

Burnout is an important work-health issue with economic costs to organizations and quality of life impacts on individuals. Focusing on Morgeson and Humphrey’s contribution to Work Design literature, we identified the general predictive effect of the Work Context factor in burnout and, secondly, lis...

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Main Authors: Pedro Afonso Cortez, Thais Zerbini, Heila Magali da Silva Veiga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psicologia Organizacional e do Trabalho 2019-10-01
Series:Revista Psicologia
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Online Access:https://pepsic.bvsalud.org/pdf/rpot/v19n4/v19n4a04.pdf
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Summary:Burnout is an important work-health issue with economic costs to organizations and quality of life impacts on individuals. Focusing on Morgeson and Humphrey’s contribution to Work Design literature, we identified the general predictive effect of the Work Context factor in burnout and, secondly, listed the moderators that may be useful to improve practices and research when dealing with burnout in organizational contexts. We did a prospective citation literature extraction in the Web of Science database from Morgeson and Humphrey, which retrieved 11 studies after screening and applying inclusion criteria. We analyzed those studies with Mixed-Effect Modeling for meta-analysis. We found an overall positive effect with high heterogeneity for the Work Context factor predicting burnout that was moderated by professional area and model selection bias. Primary results showed the importance of those moderators when dealing with Work Context factor and burnout in health organizations. We also highlight the robustness of the Morgeson and Humphrey model for future developments in Work Design.
ISSN:1984-6657