Sense of Fairness Affects Outlook, Decisions
9th June 2008
This is the sort of thumbsucking “journalism” that pervades the Washington Post.
A pair of psychologists recently evaluated hundreds of employees at a large North American university that was in the grip of painful change. The researchers wanted to find out whether there were factors that explained why some employees successfully weathered the transition and reengaged with their jobs, while others spiraled into cynicism and exhaustion — the classic signs of burnout.
No doubt the latter read and believed all the doom-and-gloom that outlets such as the Washington Post keep pounding them with. And, of course, “a large North American university” is a really representative sample of the population.