Exploring antecedents and consequences of burnout in a call centre

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology

 
 
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Title Exploring antecedents and consequences of burnout in a call centre
 
Creator Visser, Willie A. Rothmann, Sebastiaan
 
Subject Organisation Psychology burnout; antecedents; call centres; affective commitment; turnover intention
Description The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between six characteristics of call centre work environments, burnout, affective commitment and turnover intentions. These characteristics were competing management goals, work overload, electronic performance monitoring, lack of career opportunities, lack of skill variety and emotional labour. A convenient sample of employees (N = 146) was obtained from a call centre. Multiple regression analysis showed that work overload, lack of career opportunities, skill variety and emotional labour were the most important predictors of burnout. Burnout had a direct effect on turnover intentions. Affective commitment partially mediated the relationship between burnout and turnover intention.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2008-10-23
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Cross-sectional survey design
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajip.v34i2.734
 
Source SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 34, No 2 (2008); 79-87 2071-0763 0258-5200
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Western Cape 2005-2006 146 call centre employees
Rights Copyright (c) 2008 Willie A. Visser, Sebastiaan Rothmann https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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