Mindful Prevention of Burnout in Workplace Health Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Human Resources in the Work and Economic World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Prevention of Exhaustion of Human Resources in Workplace Health Management

      • Ingrid Pirker-Binder

      Pages 3-34

   3. Leadership from the Perspective of a Commercial Executive

      • Martin Reich

      Pages 35-48

   4. Work Areas, Concepts and Methods or Meaning Oriented Occupational and Business Psychotherapy

      • Ingrid Pirker-Binder

      Pages 49-65

   5. The Value Balance in Business®—Healthy Corporate Culture, Healthy Employees

      • Heinrich Anker

      Pages 67-87

   6. On Diagnosis and Development of a Health—Promoting Corporate Culture with the Value Balance in Business®

      • Heinrich Anker

      Pages 89-103

3. The Working People and Their Resources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. The Working Human—The Exhausted Human

      • Ingrid Pirker-Binder

      Pages 107-123

   3. The Working People and Their Energy

      • Ingrid Pirker-Binder

      Pages 125-141

   4. Food Supplements = Supplement to Food

      • Ingrid Spona

      Pages 143-156

   5. Nutrition for Body, Mind and Soul

      • Gerhard Moser, Ingrid Pirker-Binder

      Pages 157-165

   6. People and Their Workplace

      • Ingrid Pirker-Binder

      Pages 167-178

   7. Mental Profile: Stress and Energy—A Diagnostic Method: The CA Method and Its Use in Practice

      • Bohdana Fialová, Jiří Šimonek, Marie Šťastná, Ingrid Pirker-Binder

      Pages 179-187

4. Biofeedback in the Work and Economic World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Biofeedback: Measurement and Training Methods

      • Ingrid Pirker-Binder

      Pages 191-232

   3. Health in the 21st Century

      • Ingrid Pirker-Binder

      Pages 233-236

This book describes the causes of and methods to prevent states of exhaustion and burnout in professional contexts. It overviews a range of issues from human resource practices in commercial enterprises, to prevention of fatigue and preservation of the working individual’s vital energy. The book also addresses new measurement and training methods stemming from the latest applications of biofeedback, testing and training methods, and heart rate variability research, and their application in companies’ modern preventive management strategies, as well as in occupational and business psychotherapeutic practice. Approaching companies as social, living systems, prevention is discussed as a management tool in the corporate culture and as a strategic management decision. Selected case examples show the daily demands and challenges at the workplace and discuss work-life integration, on living and working “in flow,” and on the various facets of working persons’ energy. This book is suitable fora wide range of audiences including professionals implementing these tools and practices as well as graduate students studying these contexts.

• Life Resilience and Meaning
• Preservation of Human Resources
• Occupational and Business Psychotherapy
• Biofeedback and Heart-rate Variability at the Workplace
• Meaning and Flow
• Mindfulness in the Work World
• Burnout
• Workplace Wellbeing

“The book is written for a wide range of audiences, including professionals implementing these tools and practices as well as graduate students studying this issue. … This is an excellent additional resource for those who want to actually implement staff building programs. There are many books on burnout, but this one presents some very refreshing angles on this topic.” (Natasha Lukasiewich, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2018)

• Health-Consulting, Psychotherapy, Biofeedback, Vienna, Austria

  Ingrid Pirker-Binder

Dr. Ingrid Pirker-Binder studied international business and education in Vienna and subsequently completed psychotherapeutic training in Existential Analysis and Logotherapy on the basis of the Viktor Frankl model. She attained further qualifications in value-oriented imagination (Böschemeyer, EMDR, bio/neurofeedback (aapb.org)) and completed her doctorate at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna. She is a sworn and judicially certified expert for psychotherapy. Her professional focus areas include workplace health management, management training and occupational and business psychotherapy. Dr. Pirker-Binder is a coach and expert for working capacity, while also serving as a business mediator and providing supervision services. She applies methods such as bio-neurofeedback and heart rate variability measurement and training as part of stress and prevention management. Dr. Pirker-Binder is also an educator and textbook author, and offers lectures, seminars and workshops.

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