Burnout and Mental Fatigue From Arduous Tasks in the Workplace

Topic
Proposal topic:
The problem is burnout and mental fatigue from arduous tasks in the workplace.
Audience:
Human Resources Managers
Audience Description:
My audience is Human Resource managers of employee workers. “Human resources managers plan, coordinate, and direct the administrative functions of an organization. They oversee the recruiting, interviewing, and hiring of new staff; consult with top executives on strategic planning; and serve as a link between an organization's management and its employees”. Why this topic is important to the audience:
This problem is important to my audience because it calls for human resource managers to recognize this issue. They must answer to a higher level of authority who puts demands on them too and they must explore ways of reaching the overall goal. A specific example of how my audience might be affected by this problem is when orders are handed down from the Secretary of State asking human resource managers to implement new policies to reallocate employees’ salaries. This means we must pull all employee's files to re-evaluate their salaries. So, when this must be done across the board, it is exhausting for all the staff participants in making this happen.
Sources with Summary and Analysis
Source 1: Gabriel Mauch. October 2021. Five Metrics to Help Managers Tackle Employee Burnout. p. 35- 37. 
Summary: This article expresses the importance of managers recognizing that there is stress and burnout among employees. It provides strategies to combat this rising crisis and the challenges that come from not addressing it appropriately. This article arms them with the necessary tools they need to implement going forward to improve employee burnout in the workplace.
Analysis: This source is relevant because it describes the effects of the problem. The author Gabriela introduced ways to combat “keep track of workload balance metrics that can help managers more efficiently identify employees who are at risk of burnout, so managers can
(NOTES FROM MY PROFESSOR)
The audience seems more focused, but it is still not clear if these HR managers are specific to YOUR current workplace and not HR managers in general.
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The description needs to present information specific to your audience, not HR managers in general.
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intervene before it’s too late. More specifically, the crucial productivity metric to keep an eye on in the workload balance category is the utilization level”.
Source 2: Stephanie Schomer. July 30, 2021. PTO alone can't fix pandemic stress — how to better support employees and battle burnout.
Summary: The author’s source is credible because the main idea is to expose and make aware that working under stress can cause physical and psychological health problems and can prevent employees from fulfilling their highest work potential.
Analysis: This source is relevant because it describes the causes of the problem. It is incredible because it was published to highlight the study of how mental fatigue influences people who must make decisions even when they are mentally fatigued.
Source 3: Bryan Robinson, Ph.D. October 9, 2023. Mental Health Issues Soar to Number 1 Workplace Injury. 
Summary: This article points out how mental health is being brought to the forefront as an issue that previously was not made aware of in previous times.
Analysis: This source is relevant because it describes the effects of the problem. This source is credible in that it points out how mental fatigue and stress have emerged the number 1 injury in the workplace.
Source 4: American Heart Association. 10/10, 2023. Nine policies companies should implement to reduce burnout, according to employees. 
Summary: This source describes how companies can develop actual policies to help address the situation of mental fatigue in the workplace to improve employees' mental cognition. “The World Health Organization defines burnout as a workplace mental health phenomenon resulting from chronic, unmanaged workplace stress that is characterized by feelings of exhaustion, disengagement and negativity related to one's job, and reduced professional performance”.
Analysis: This source is relevant because it provides solutions to the problem. This source is credible because it gives some practical feedback on how stress, mental fatigue, and burnout ca be addressed to improve our lives.
 (NOTES FROM MY PROFESSOR)
Sources look much better!
When you use sources in your paper, you must put quotations around the words you use and add in-text citations according to Strayer Writing Standards (see https://library(dot)strayer(dot)edu/sws ). In addition, you also need to use in-text citations when you summarize or paraphrase work. You must also list the sources you use on the Sources page. If you do not use quotation marks and in-text citations, as well as a sources page, your work will be considered plagiarized. See the model proposal in ch. 7.7 of the SOOMO webtext.