Explaining the relationships between job characteristics, burnout, and engagement: The role of basic psychological need satisfaction is an article that has been authored by Anja Van den Broeck, Maarten Vansteenkiste, Hans De Witte and Willy Lens. The article has been authored with an aim of examining the role of the basic need satisfaction, as it is defined using the self-determination theory. The theory has been used in determining the relationships that exists between job demands, employee’s exhaustion and vigour, job resources, components that make up burnout and engagement. The article was based upon a heterogeneous sample of 745 employees of Dutch speaking citizens of Belgium. The findings were that the satisfaction that is derived from the basic needs explained the relationships from job demands to exhaustion and from the job resources to vigour. It was able to provide a full account for the job resources and exhaustion.

This article is useful in our study as it lays emphasis on the job demand in relation to burnout, job resources, exhaustion and vigour among other variables that are critical for the purpose of our research. The article develops the fundamental relationships that shed light upon the variables involved in our research and thus help us to draw findings from the work of others and create a comparison to our own. It is important to note that use of the article is a major stepping-stone into understanding and getting a wider scope of what our research should compose of. The findings of the article shall also be used for comparison purposes and thus create a longitudinal analysis that will create a trend over time. The findings can be rated depending on how respondent views change over time.