People management in the school environment and coping with Burnout syndrome

Abstract

Burnout Syndrome or Professional Exhaustion Syndrome has been described as an emotional disorder whose symptoms of extreme exhaustion, stress and physical exhaustion result from exhausting work situations, which demand excessive competitiveness or responsibility.  The main cause of the disease is precisely overwork. Burnout Syndrome has affected professionals who work daily under pressure and with constant responsibilities, especially healthcare professionals and teachers. The main objective of this research is to carry out a systematic literature review on the strategies that could be used by school managers to combat Burnout. For this purpose, the Google Scholar database was used, and the search was carried out using the following words: “burnout” and “professores”. The productions were selected preferably from 2013 to 2023, with articles, dissertations and theses included in the collection of this bibliographic review. The analysis of the works allowed us to identify some strategies for coping with Burnout based on managing teachers' emotions. In this aspect, the school manager has a preponderant role in designing and implementing actions that seek to avoid or minimize the effects of professional burnout. It was evident in this work that there is no doubt that the most important intervention must be prevention. This study points to the need to develop and implement a research and debate agenda with a view to establishing a public health policy for teachers.