Paxton (2012) identified that a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification and or Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification strategically support career development by enhancing confidence that is essential for managing Human Resource (HR) challenges. The HR certifications help differentiate from peers. The employee gains valuable education that provides opportunities for promotion and better pay. HR certification is increasingly becoming an integral step to building a successful career in HR. PHR and SPHR create the driving force to career paths of HR professionals. HR professionals with either PHR or SPHR or even both attain promotion more frequently to even higher positions than those without. HR professionals with the certifications are more likely to work at larger organizations than smaller organizations. Large proportions of employees in those large organizations may also lack the certifications. This means that those with such certifications differentiate themselves from the rest of the employees (Lester, Scott, & Dale, 2012).
The signs of burnout are a feeling of emotional exhaustion because of work, physical fatigue, and a feeling of low accomplishments. When an employee is requested to describe what she or he feels the definite answer is a feeling of drained or used up and physically fatigued (Philips, 2012). On waking up in the morning there is a feeling of dread on the thought of putting up with the work of the day. According to Gleason (2001), employee burnout is caused by organizational conditions, such as lack of support, control, clarity, and rewards and personal conditions, such as personal responsibility and idealistic responsibility. Management must ensure reduction of employee burnout as it results to employee withdrawal, interpersonal conflicts, declining performance, family problems, and health problems. Management can reduce employee burnout through increasing participation of employees in decision making, aligning employees with their own particular jobs and units, and increasing feedback about employee performance (Beheshtifar, Malikeh, and Ali, 2013).
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Beheshtifar, M., & Omidvar, A. (2013). Causes to create job burnout in organizations. International Journal of Academic Research in Business & Social Sciences, 3(6), 107-113.
Gleason, S. S. (2001). Burn out: are you headed for an overload?. Sports Medicine Update, 15(4), 22-23;52.
Lester, S. W., & Dwyer, D. J. (2012). Motivations and benefits for attaining HR certifications. Career Development International, 17(7), 584-605.
Paxton, R. A. (2012). A practitioner's perspective on the value of PHR and SPHR certification. Human Resource Management Review. p. 279.
Philips, J. (2012). Human resource management (Phillips). Boston: Cengage Learning.
