Manager tendieren dazu, Mitarbeitern, die ihrer Meinung nach intrinsisch motivierter sind, mehr Arbeit zu geben, in der „naiven Annahme“, dass diese Mitarbeiter die zusätzliche Arbeit genießen werden, wie neue Untersuchungen zeigen.
https://news.northeastern.edu/2026/03/18/intrinsic-motivation-at-work-burnout-research/
17 Kommentare
Bad management increase burnout risk by pushing more work onto reliable good workers. Shocking.
Ai should replace management before any other positions.
Typically the most overloaded burnt out people are the strivers and people with a family. Corpo will always squeeze you to your perceived limit
This thinking is how sociopaths justify abusing people and still think they are a „good person.“ It’s pathetic.
I give more hours to people who act excited when I give them hours. I try not to give extra shifts to people who seem to be trying to avoid them
This is wrong?
Jokes on them, I barely do the work I have
I take on extra work to add to my resume and skills
These days I generally approach this from the frame of “more experience, more capable, more money“. Sure you can give me more work, but I’m going to turn around and leverage that into better money and better conditions at some point. If it’s not with your company, it’ll be with someone else’s.
.. you’re kidding me.
Not that we have a stronger work ethic. Not that we have a family to provide for and are scared. Not that we’re hoping and praying for a chance to do what we’re really interested in.
.. that we enjoy it ..
Okay, you can burn it down.
Throw the ashes in the sea.
Do they have ANY idea how much pain?! I held down production alone on peak days while recovering from a major surgery! I have to stop typing because I can only think in curse words.
While I was on mat leave, one of my poor coworkers started doing the work of 3 employees. I came back and immediately tried to take some off his plate. But I feel like he is the go-to person for work on our team. Our manager trusts him and therefore gives him a ton more projects. He is young and I worry he is going to burnout spectacularly one of these days.
More like bad managers for some more work on good workers because they know they’ll get it done and that way they don’t have to deal with the bad ones.
Give you more work load and less pay! That’s why I say, cap yourself off people, and when they’re willing to give you the pay, then step up. Don’t let them take advantage of your work generosity cause once they start doing it, they’ll keep you at the lowest.
It’s called the Competency Tax.
80% of the work is done by 20% of the people.
Right… Naive belief… It’s easier to give the work to an yes man than somebody who will ask questions, complain, etc
When I was in college, I was always the one my manager would call to cover for her pet who routinely skipped work to stay an extra day at the beach. And if I refused, somehow that was my problem instead of the employee who was supposed to work it in the first place.
Pareto principle in action again, 80% of the work is done by 20% of the team.
Is it naive belief or convenient delusion? The more their team gets done the better a manager looks. If a team has slower employees and it’s been apparent for years, the manager has an incentive to hide that.
„Why didn’t you notice this sooner? Did you not manage them well?“
So it’s best for them if the competent employees pick up the slack of the lazier ones and when the manager speaks to higher ups they can just spread out the accomplishments among all of them. Making them all look like they’re performing in a satisfactory way.