The Impact of Short Overseas Business Trips on Job Stress and Burnout
- 5 September 2002
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Applied Psychology
- Vol. 51 (4) , 582-592
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1464-0597.00109
Abstract
Dans cet article, on étudie l’impact des voyages d’affaire longue‐distance sur le stress professionnel et le burnout chez 45 hommes et 12 femmes: il s’agit de 57 salariés appartenant à six entreprises de haute technologie. Les déplacements à l’étranger font partie intégrante de leur travail. L’âge moyen est de 34 ans et l’ancienneté moyenne dans le poste de quatre ans. Les sujets ont rempli des questionnaires d’auto‐évaluation dans le but de mesurer leur niveau de stress et de burnout à trois reprises; dix jours avant le départ, pendant le séjour à l’étranger, et une semaine après le retour. On avait posé comme hypothèse principale que les voyages d’affaire longue‐distance avaient un impact sur le stress professionnel et le burnout et accessoirement que les niveaux de stress et de burnout étaient plus bas au retour. Les résultats montrent que les différences de niveaux de stress et de burnout avant et après le voyage sont significatives. Bien que ces salariés doivent beaucoup travailler durant leur voyage, ils éprouvent un déclin du stress et du burnout après leur retour au pays.The present paper examines the impact of overseas business trips on job stress and burnout in 57 employees (45 males; 12 females) of high‐tech companies who travel abroad as part of their job. The mean age of participants was 34 years and mean seniority on the job was four years. Participants were employed by six high‐tech companies and had gone abroad on business trips as part of the job. Participants completed self‐report questionnaires assessing their job stress and burnout at three points in time: 10 days prior to going abroad (pre‐trip), during their stay abroad (mid‐trip), and one week after their return (post‐trip). The main hypothesis was that overseas business trips have an impact on job stress and burnout. We hypothesised that levels of job stress and burnout are lower after the business trips. Results show that the differences in stress and burnout level before and after the business trips were significant. Although participants worked hard during their trip, they experienced a decline in job stress and burnout after returning home.Keywords
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