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The impact of interpersonal environment on burnout and organizational commitment

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posted on 1988-01-01, 00:00 authored by Michael Leiter, C Maslach
Organizational commitment and burnout were related to interpersonal relationships of nurses in a small general hospital. Regular communication contacts among personnel were differentiated as supervisor or coworker contact, and these categories were further differentiated into pleasant and unpleasant contacts. The results were consistent with a view of burnout in which emotional exhaustion leads to greater depersonalization which subsequently leads to diminished personal accomplishment. Interpersonal contact with personnel in the organization was related to the development of burnout at each stage. Patterns of pleasant and unpleasant contacts with supervisors and coworkers were related to the three aspects of burnout in a distinct manner. High burnout was related to diminished organizational commitment, which was also related to aspects of the interpersonal environment of the organization. The results are discussed in the context of a comprehensive approach to psychological adjustment to a worksetting. Copyright © 1988 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Journal

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volume

9

Issue

4

Pagination

297 - 308

ISSN

0894-3796

eISSN

1099-1379

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CN.1 Other journal article

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