Workers who remain at work out of a sense of duty are prone to several health problems at once, including exhaustion, stress, and burnout, the researchers said.
"When employees continue to work in their organization because they believe that they have no other options, they are more likely to experience emotional exhaustion," say the authors, scientists from Concordia University in Montreal.
In the absence of positive emotional ties with the organization, a commitment based on a sense of duty is perceived as a kind of debt commitment and loss of independence, which gradually emotionally drains a person.
The study showed that employees who continued to work in organizations either out of a sense of duty, or because, as it seemed to them, the lack of other work options, more often than other employees, experienced mental and physical health problems. These findings, researchers came from the observations of 260 workers from various industries.
The study also showed that people with higher self-esteem suffered more from the lack of other employment opportunities.
Over time, this feeling can cause a person to leave the organization, which leads to staff turnover. However, employers, according to scientists, can solve these mutual problems.
The point is that employers should try to minimize such sentiments among employees, developing their abilities and competence, thereby increasing their sense of their own mobility and, paradoxically, contributing to their desire to stay with the organization.
