DAJŠA

 

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Group members:

Andreja Kavčnik

Jasmina Šeško

Špela Orehek

David Deržanič

Anže Zaletelj

 

Distribution of roles:

Chairperson: Andreja Kavčnik

Secretary: Jasmina Šeško

Reporter: Špela Orehek

Time-keeper: David Deržanič, Anže Zaletelj

 

Profesional hazards: burnout

 

Profesional hazards are a very common occurrence in the world of work. Overtime, long hours of work, heavy lifting, mental labour etc. These are all factors that affect  physical and mental health thus consequently affect individual's private life. The focus of our research will be on the negative impact of burnout as a profesional hazard on the quality of life and work productivity. Burnout is becoming increasingly widespread because the world of work is changing. Employees have more tasks to accomplish, they are expected to be better skilled, educated, capable. In pursuit of success  person's physical and mental health is often put on side track. In order to determine the impact the research will address reasons and consequences of burnout. In this manner it will be noted how to avoid burnout and thus to prevent diminishing the quality of life and work productivity.

 

The following questions will provide help for the research:

 

1)       What are professional hazards known? Which are most frequent?

2)       What forms of burnout are known?

3)       In which professions burnout is the most frequent?

4)       What are the stages of burnout?

5)       When does it occur and how the occurance is explained?

6)       How to avoid burnout?

7)       What is the most common form of burnout?

8)       What medical conditions can be linked to burnout?

9)       How dangerous can burnout be for an individual?

10)   Is burnout at workplace individual or social problem?

 

Glossary:

balance: ravnovesje (weight or force of one side in excess of another)
burnout: izgorelost (a condition in which the individual is emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted. Most often is a consequence of stress.)
detachment: odtujitev
discrepancy: neskladje
determination:odločenost
inefficiency: neučinkovitost, neuspešnost
mobbing: psihično nasilje na delovnem mestu
mental disorder: psihična motnja
to overburden: preobremeniti (an excessive burden; an overload)
overload:preobremenitev
re-evaluate: ponovno ovrednotiti
replenishment: dopolnitev
stressors: dejavniki, ki povzročajo stres
unrelenting: neomajen, nepopustljiv (not diminishing in intensity, pace of effort
workaholic - deloholik (a compulsive worker)

 

MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING

Held on 24th February, 2012 in NetCafe

 

Item 1: Selection of group names

Discussion: First of all Špela and Jasmina suggested an idea of formation about the name of the group. It should contain the first letters of our names. Other members agreed and Andreja made a list of possible versions. We voted for Ajšad, Jašad and Dajša. At the end of discussion we chose Dajša.

Decision: We decided for the name Dajša.

 

Item 2: Distribution of tasks

Discussion: We assigned roles to the members of the group. Andreja was selected as a group leader unanimously and Anže volunteered to be a time-keeper. Other members agreed. Our group has five members so we decided to have two time-keepers generally. David was assigned to be a time-keeper too. Jasmina chose the role of secretary and the role of reporter entitled to Špela. Absent student will be substituted by David or Anže (because they share the role of time-keeper).

Decision: Andreja is the group leader, Jasmina is the secretary, Špela is the reporter, David and Anže are time-keepers.

 

Item 3: Any other business

Discussion: The discussion was regarding our next meetings.

Decision: We agreed to meet 29th February after English lesson.

 

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Present: Andreja, Jasmina, Špela, David, Anže

Duration: 20 min

 

Minutes taker: Špela

 

 

MINUTES OF THE SECOND MEETING (via E – MAIL)

Held on 6th March , 2012

 

AGENDA:

- Choosing the topic of the research paper 

- Finding the main and the most important problem related to the topic 

- Listing working questions 

- Listing useful literature 

 

Item 1

Discussion: First agenda item was the selection of the topic. We went trough the list of proposed topics prof. Ignjatovič gave us in the class and we marked those we thought would be interesting. We made a short list of selected topics and then voted for the topic.

Decision: We agreed on Professional diseases and risks as our main topics.

Item 2

Discussion: We decided on the topic and started talking about our problem. Andreja proposed »Professional diseases diminish the quality of life and labor productivity« as possible problem denifition. Anže suggested we could write about nuclear accidents like Fokushima or Cernobil and Špela proposed we could write about chemicals and radiation. David suggested we could write about burnout because it is becoming more and more present in modern concept of work. We all agreed on David's proposal.

Decision: Defined problem: »Burnout as a profesional hazard diminishes the quality of life and work productivity«

Item 3

Discussion: While defining the problem we also formed some research questions that will help us with our work.

Decision: Research questions:

1)       What are professional hazards known? Which are most frequent?

2)       What forms of burnout are known?

3)       In which professions burnout is the most frequent?

4)       What are the stages of burnout?

5)       When does it occur and how the occurance is explained?

6)       How to avoid burnout?

7)       What is the most common form of burnout?

8)       What medical conditions can be linked to burnout?

9)       How dangerous can burnout be for an individual?

10)   Is burnout at workplace individual or social problem?

 

Item 4

 

Discussion: We searched for literature individually.

Decision: List of literature:

- Rossi et al. 2005. Stress and quality of working life: current perspectives in occupational health. International Stress Management Association. Conference: Brazil, Porto Alegre.

- Maslach, C. and Schaufeli, W.B.1993. “Historical and conceptual development of burnout”, in Schaufeli, W.B., Maslach, C. and Marek, T. (Eds), Professional Burnout: Recent Developments in Theory and Research, Taylor & Francis, Washington, DC, pp. 1-16.

- Halbesleben, J.R.B. and Buckley, M.R.2004. “Burnout in organizational life”, Journal of Management, Vol. 30, pp. 859-79.

- Maslach, C.1976. “Burned-out”, Human Behavior, Vol. 9, pp. 16-22.

- Brenninkmeijer, V. and Van Yperen, N. 2003. “How to conduct research on burnout: advantages and disadvantages of a unidimensional approach to burnout”, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 60, Suppl. 1, pp. 16-21.

- Work & Stress.2005. “Special issue on the conceptualization and measurement of burnout”,Work & Stress, Vol. 20, pp. 187-267.

- Pruessner, John et al. 1999. Burnout, Perceived Stress, and Cortisol Responses to Awakening. Psychosomatic Medicine, 61:197–20

- Šubic P. Pet odstotkov slovencev se zlomi zaradi izgorelosti. Finance, 23.1.2007

- Inštitut za razvoj človeških virov: Opis adrenalne izgorelosti (SAI). Ljubljana, 2006.

- Bilban M, Pšeničny A. 2007. Izgorelost. Delo in varnost (ZVD).

 

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Present: Andreja, Jasmina, Špela, David, Anže

Duration: 4 hours

 

Minutes taker: Andreja

 

MINUTES OF THE THIRD MEETING

Held on 12^th March, 2012

 

AGENDA:

- Correcting mistakes made at the last meeting

- Defining the main chapters of our research paper

- Task Distribution

- Other 

 

Item 1

Discussion: We talked about the mistakes that were done at  the last meeting and reviewed them individually in the previous PBL report. Špela and Andreja said  they  were going to correct and improve  the mistakes  on our Wiki page.

Decision: We found the mistakes and eliminated  them. 

 

Item 2

Discussion:The research paper will consist of theoretical and empirical part. It will include theoretical aspect of the problem as well as sociological research.  Theoretical part will be divided in sub-chapters. Andreja proposed  that one of the sub-chapters in the theoretical part could be “What is job burnout?”. Others agreed. Špela then suggested that one of the chapters could be related to burnout in private life and Jasmina added that there is also a very important chapter called “How to avoid burnout?”. We all agreed that this could be the right structure for our research paper.

Decision: Our research paper will be stuctured as follows:

-          What is burnout?

-          How can we see the connections and consequences of burnout in private life?

-          How to avoid burnout?

 

Item 3

Discussion: We talked about the distribution of tasks. This implies that  each of us will do one of the parts in our research paper and in the end we are going to discuss each individual’s work.

Decision: Everyone in our group will do one part (or chapter) in our research paper.

 

Item 4

Discussion: We discussed the date of our next meeting and the tasks from the previous PBL reports which are still to be corrected.

Decision: The next meeting will be held on 16^th March. We have also agreed that we have to re-write most of our research questions and at the  next meeting we are  going to distribute research questions to each individual in the group. What is more, we also need to talk about our research method – we have not decided whether this will be an interview or a survey yet.

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Present: Andreja, Jasmina, Špela, David, Anže

Duration: 1,5 h

 

Minutes taker: David

 

 

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Sources:

picture 1: myLot (online) accessed on 3rd March 2012 at http://www.mylot.com/w/image/2477896.aspx