Performance-based reward can lead to employee burnout

Kristian Brunt-Seymour
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Employers should beware that rewarding performance outcomes in the workplace can lead to problems of excessive perfectionism in staff and greater employee burnout.

Research by York St John University and the University of Bath revealed the extent to which perfectionist tendencies in employees could drive many to burnout, a syndrome associated with chronic str...

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