Staff decision-making power and burn-out: implications for health education
Institution: | California State University – Northridge |
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Department: | Department of Health Science |
Degree: | M.P.H. |
Year: | 1979 |
Keywords: | Decision making – Psychological aspects; Dissertations, Academic – CSUN – Health Science |
Record ID: | 1545240 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/123869 |
This exploratory study focused on four small non-profit, grassroots health/social service agencies and their staffs, in terms of specific organizational variables and burn-out. The three organizational variables in this study were: decision-making, development, and self-control. Burn-out was measured by emotional exhaustion, negative feelings, and job satisfaction. The hypothesis explored in this study was: those agencies in which staff have decision-making power, development opportunities and self-control within -their jobs will experience less burn-out than staffs which do not have decision-making, development, and/or self-control opportunities. An attempt was made to involve agencies with different organizational structures. (See more in text.)