Work stress, job burnout, and work outcomes in a turbulent environment: The case of Israeli executives

During the past two decades, stress and burnout in organizations have
become the focus of a plethora of studies. While both concepts seem to
be still at their developmental stage in terms of our complete under-
standing of their nature and outcomes, there is a growing pool of
documented data and research that enables organizational scholars to
test relevant hypotheses. As part of the process of developing a work
stress and job burnout theory, it is important to investigate the accumu-
lated knowledge in various environments. If the same patterns are
evident across occupations, levels in the organizations, as well as na-
tions and cultures, there might be growing support to a universal the-
ory of work stress and job burnout.
The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationships
among work stress, job burnout, and work outcomes of executives
in the turbulent Israeli environment. The main question is whether
results and patterns found in one society will be evident in a differ-
ent society. Specifically, we attempt to explore the growing body of
literature, mainly from the United States, within an entirely different
society