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Burnout has become a crucial issue for organizations who pursue performance excellence and wish to achieve competitive advantage. Although its negative impacts have been known to the literature, only a few studies have investigated its destructive role, antecedents, and mechanisms in tourism industry, especially in Bali. This study aims to investigate the effect of workload on employees' burnout, while also exploring the role of work-family conflict in the relationship between those two by using a well-known hotel in Bali as the context. The study used quantitative research design and census as its sampling method. 110 employees participated in the study, and a set of questionnaires was used to collect the data. Data was analyzed with path analysis technique. The main finding of this study is that workload may become a key contribution to increase employee's burnout in Tijili Hotel, Bali, directly or through work-family conflict. The findings signal to the hotel that they may have to review their work task and assignment policies so that the employees will have enough time to prepare and complete their task and responsibilities. This becomes important for the employees because juggling too many balls in two hands not only drains them physically but also mentally (high burnout) in the workplace.

Objective To evaluate the associations between indices of caregiving strain, ruminative style, depressive symptoms, and gender among family members of patients with bipolar disorder. Method One hundred and fifty primary caregivers of patients enrolled in the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD) participated in a cross-sectional study to evaluate the role of ruminative style in maintaining depressive symptoms associated with caregiving strain. Patient lifetime diagnosis and current episode status were evaluated by the Affective Disorder Evaluation and the Clinical Monitoring Form. Caregivers were evaluated within 30 days of the patient on measures of family strain, depressive symptoms, and ruminative style. Results Men and women did not differ on depression, caregiver strain, or ruminative style scores. Scores suggest an overall mild level of depression and moderate caregiver strain for the sample. Greater caregiver strain was significantly associated (P < 0.05) with rumination and level of depressive symptoms, controlling for patient clinical status and demographic variables. Rumination reduced the apparent association between strain and depression by nearly half. Gender was not significantly associated with depression or rumination. Conclusion Rumination helps explain depressive symptoms experienced by both male and female caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder. Interventions for caregivers targeted at decreasing rumination should be considered.

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