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Christina Maslach

PhD
Professor of Psychology, Emerita
University of California, Berkeley

Christina Maslach, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe College and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is best known as the pioneering researcher on job burnout, producing the standard assessment tool (the Maslach Burnout Inventory, MBI), journal articles, and books, including The Burnout Challenge in 2022. She has received numerous awards for her work, including both academic (the 2020 award for scientific writing from the National Academy of Sciences) and public (named in 2021 as one of the top 100 people transforming business, by Business Insider).

She is an outstanding award-winning teacher, and was Professor of the Year in 1997. As an administrator, she was Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Instructional Technology, and the Chair of the faculty Academic Senate (twice) at UC-Berkeley. She has also served twice as the president of the Western Psychological Association, most recently when it celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020.

2024 Sessions

Job Burnout: Definition, assessment, organizational interventions

Burnout is an occupational phenomenon that results from chronic workplace stressors that have not been successfully managed. Research on burnout has identified the value of fixing the job, and not just the person, within six areas of job-person mismatch. Improving the match between people and their jobs is the key to managing the chronic stressors, and can be done on a routine basis as part of regular organizational checkups. Better matches enable people to work smarter, rather than just harder, and to thrive rather than to get beaten down.

Keynote Speaker

Saturday, December 16 5:30–6:30 PM
Room Convention Center
Faculty

Christina Maslach

PhD
Professor of Psychology, Emerita
University of California, Berkeley

Christina Maslach, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe College and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is best known as the pioneering researcher on job burnout, producing the standard assessment tool (the Maslach Burnout Inventory, MBI), journal articles, and books, including The Burnout Challenge in 2022. She has received numerous awards for her work, including both academic (the 2020 award for scientific writing from the National Academy of Sciences) and public (named in 2021 as one of the top 100 people transforming business, by Business Insider).

She is an outstanding award-winning teacher, and was Professor of the Year in 1997. As an administrator, she was Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Instructional Technology, and the Chair of the faculty Academic Senate (twice) at UC-Berkeley. She has also served twice as the president of the Western Psychological Association, most recently when it celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020.
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