Boreout, Kari̇yer Uyumluluğu Ve Ai̇le-İş Zengi̇nleşti̇rme Etki̇leşi̇mi̇: Selçuk Üni̇versi̇tesi̇ Örneği̇

Abstract

Boreout is a psychological state of intense boredom, a crisis of meaning and growth. It is commonly associated with the lack mental stimuli which can turn employees into 'professional zombies'. Drawing on conservation of resources (COR) theory, this article examines the impact of boreout on career adaptability, as well as the moderating effect of family-work enrichment. Utilizing data from employees in the service industry (n=250), a structural equation modeling technique was employed. The data unveiled that (1) boreout has a negative impact on employee career adaptability, (2) that family-work enrichment has a positive impact on employee career adaptability, and (3) that family-work enrichment does not moderate the relationship between boreout and employee career adaptability. The authors concluded that organizations should address the problematic lack of on-the-job challenges, by reevaluating job design, enriching jobs, weighing work demands, and a careful consideration of person-job fit. Implications and future research direction are discussed.

Yöneticilerde Boreout Sendromu: Öncül-Ardıl ve Çözüm Önerilerine Yönelik Nitel bir Araştırma

“…At the stage of preparing the interview form, the literature and existing studies were examined and created with care to reflect multiple points of view. Thus, emotions, thoughts, and experiences of the participants towards the syndrome were tried to be determined in detail (Cürten, 2013;Brühlmann, 2015;Karadal et al, 2018;Karatepe and Kim, 2020;Tekindal and Uğuz Arsu, 2020). In addition, by taking the opinions of academicians who are experts in this field, care was taken to determine the appropriate questions for the purpose of the research and to direct them to the participants.…”

“…Therefore, it is thought that the greatest theoretical contribution of this research is to determine the antecedents and consequences of boreout syndrome in managers. (Rothlin & Werder, 2007;Rothlin & Werder, 2008;Snijders, 2009;Probst, 2012;Prammer, 2012;Cürten, 2013;Stock, 2016;Karadal et al, 2018;García-González et al, 2018;Moris and Nedosugova, 2019;Karadal and Erdem, 2019;Özsungur, 2020;LeCunff, 2020;Radka, 2021;Acosta Vergara et al, 2021;Merdan et al, 2022).…”

“…Limited studies conducted on the concept of boreout in the literature are either conceptual framework and measures (Rothlin and Werder, 2007;Rothlin and Werder, 2008;Snijders, 2009;Probst, 2012;Prammer, 2012), related to scale development (Poirier, Gelin, and Mikolajczak, 2021;Ramírez Quiroz and Villanueva Cueva, 2021;Sürücü and Yıkılmaz, 2022), comparing the concept of boreout with burnout (Brühlmann, 2015;LeCunff, 2020;Radka, 2021), or aimed at investigating the relationship of the syndrome with different variables (Stock, 2015;Van Hooff andVan Hooft, 2017, Karadal, Abubakar, andErdem, 2018;Abubakar, 2019;Acosta Vergara, Plaza Gómez, and Hernández Riaño, 2021). It is seen that correlational studies are generally conducted in quantitative study design on different samples such as service sector employees (Özsungur, 2020), financial companies and bank personnel (Abubakar, 2019), workers (García-González, Villavicencio-Ayub, and García., 2018;Moris and Nedosugova, 2019;Acosta Vergara et al, 2021), office personnel (Karadal et al, 2018), public officials (Maroto, 2019), and textile workers (Merdan, Erdem, and Gümüşsoy, 2022). From these examples obtained from the literature, it is seen that the studies on boreout are mostly focused on blue-collar workers (García-González et al, 2018;Moris and Nedosugova, 2019;Özsungur, 2020;Acosta Vergara et al, 2021;Merdan et al, 2022), and rarely studied on office staff (Karadal et al, 2018;Maroto, 2019;Abubakar, 2019).…”

“…It is seen that correlational studies are generally conducted in quantitative study design on different samples such as service sector employees (Özsungur, 2020), financial companies and bank personnel (Abubakar, 2019), workers (García-González, Villavicencio-Ayub, and García., 2018;Moris and Nedosugova, 2019;Acosta Vergara et al, 2021), office personnel (Karadal et al, 2018), public officials (Maroto, 2019), and textile workers (Merdan, Erdem, and Gümüşsoy, 2022). From these examples obtained from the literature, it is seen that the studies on boreout are mostly focused on blue-collar workers (García-González et al, 2018;Moris and Nedosugova, 2019;Özsungur, 2020;Acosta Vergara et al, 2021;Merdan et al, 2022), and rarely studied on office staff (Karadal et al, 2018;Maroto, 2019;Abubakar, 2019). However, it is considered very appropriate to examine the boreout syndrome in terms of individuals whose jobs are routinely repetitive by nature.…”

The Effects of Boreout on Stress, Depression, and Anxiety in the Workplace

“…The validity and reliability of the scales were determined according to the confirmatory factor analysis results obtained in this study [χ2 ( 186 (stress=.938; depression= .901; anxiety= .890; boreout= .842). On the other hand, the scale was previously studied in Turkish (Özsungur, 2020;Karadal, Abubakar, & Erdem, 2018).…”