ABSTRACT
One of the most important external factors is the complex of those that cause organizational stress. Professional burnout appears in the situation where a worker is overloaded by work and where management does not ensure essential freedoms in making decisions directly connected to work tasks. The potential effects of burnout are serious, both for the individual staff members and for entire organizations. On the basis of all of this work, it is hypothesized that professional burnout can reduce creativity and innovation. This chapter provides a theoretical framework for this relationship between burnout and both innovation and creativity. This relationship can be viewed from two perspectives: adaption-innovation theory and a concept of creative style of behavior. Creative activity can be defined in the simplest way as searching for multiplicity using various modes of searching. Psychological problems connected with creativity seemed to gain a new and more clear cognitive basis when presented in the context of research into styles of behavior.
