Burnout syndrome, stress and managerial disease

The paper describes three conditions and their interrelationship - burnout syndrome, negative stress (distress) and managerial disease, which have a negative impact on both work efficiency and the psychophysical health of employees. Although the origin of the aforementioned conditions is prolonged stress, their symptomatology differs, which is important from the point of view of differential diagnosis, and for the purpose of applying adequate measures of prevention and therapy. Burnout manifests itself through three basic components: emotional exhaustion, cynicism in the context of a negative attitude towards work and clients, and significantly reduced work efficiency. These components arise from the meeting of internal, intrinsic personality factors (first of all, perfectionism and unrealistically high expectations and assessments related to oneself and one's own work) and external, extrinsic ones, which relate to the organization of work and the behavior of management staff. On the other hand, managerial disease is characteristic of certain psychological (so-called A and D) personality types who are chronically irritable, quarrelsome, nervous, prone to control, which results in eating, sleeping and, often, cardiovascular problems which, if not treated treat, can lead to severe and irreversible health outcomes. The prevalence of the described conditions requires the education of employees in order to prevent them, as well as the presence of experts, the so-called. stress-manager for preventive and therapeutic action, and together, as research shows, it has a positive psychological-health, social and even economic effect on the individual and the community as a whole.