Agnieszka Czerw

Background. The proper functioning of man in different areas of their life depends largely on their personal resources. This equipment becomes especially important in the case of high environmental requirements (e.g. in an organisation), which may lead to negative psychological phenomena such as job burnout.

Research aims. The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of personal resources (the sense of life meaning and the optimism level of an employee) on the level of job burnout.

Methodology. The group of 119 Polish high-level managers in two large international production companies were included in the research. Three questionnaires: diagnosing the sense of meaning of life, optimism, and job burnout were used. The regression analysis has shown that both optimism of managers and the sense of meaning of life have a significant impact on the level of job burnout. However, this impact is differentiated.

Key findings. The research shows that optimism and sense of life presence protects against job burnout, but the search for meaning of life is positively related to burnout. In this context, employees and organisations should be advised to strengthen the optimism level and the presence of life meaning.

Background. World literature in the area of management, which takes into account the psychological aspects of human functioning in the work situation, more and more deals with the phenomenon of well-being. Many authors emphasize for example the economic benefits to the organization resulting from the concern for the well-being of their employees. Research aims. This article aims to summarize and organize current knowledge of the phenomenon of well-being at work.
Method. Due to the complexity of this concept it was necessary to clarify it for organization-al implementation. For this purpose the analysis of many reports from empirical and theoreti- cal studies in recent years was done.
Reg findings. The model of well-being experienced by employees which includes its causes  and consequences is the result of the presented analysis of various theories and available  research results in the literature.