Abstract

Burnout is a phenomenon, commonly used to describe a state of mental exhaustion that thrives in the workplace nowadays. This syndrome is   perceived as a consequence of a major mismatch between the nature of the job and the nature of the person who does the job. The mismatch happened since the organizations place the human value a distant second behind economic or profit. In order to gain a better comprehension about this syndrome, this article tries to describe burnout from the beginning development of the syndrome, the differences from the others concepts, the sources (organization, personalities, work environment), the process and also the issues in empirical research. The reader is expected to explore this phenomenon with regarding those issues.