MIT Sloan management review winter 2025

The Winter 2025 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review focuses on strategies to prevent burnout by improving work design. The article “Design Work to Prevent Burnout” by Sharon K. Parker and Caroline Knight introduces a new model for enhancing work design to boost employee engagement and reduce stress. This model emphasizes stimulating work, mastery, autonomy, relational work, and manageable demands.

Vision of the Book:
To provide managers with actionable insights and models for redesigning work environments that enhance employee well-being, engagement, and productivity, thereby effectively addressing and preventing burnout.

Mission of the Book:

  1. Introduce a New Work Design Model: Present a comprehensive framework that focuses on key job characteristics—stimulating work, mastery, autonomy, relational work, and manageable demands—to improve work design.
  2. Enhance Employee Engagement: Offer strategies to increase employee engagement by creating work environments that are both challenging and supportive.
  3. Reduce Stress and Burnout: Provide practical approaches to minimize stress and prevent burnout through thoughtful work design and management practices.
  4. Support Organizational Success: Demonstrate how improving work design can lead to higher productivity, job satisfaction, and overall organizational performance.

By focusing on these objectives, the issue aims to equip leaders with the tools necessary to create healthier, more sustainable work environments.

You can find more information about the MIT Sloan Management Review Winter 2025 issue, including the article on tackling burnout, through the following link:

MIT Sloan Management Review – Design Work to Prevent Burnout