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Arie Shirom

Arie Shirom was an Israeli researcher of work psychology, job burnout, labor relations and health system management, and a full professor at Tel Aviv University.

1937 to 2012Research on job burnoutThe Shirom-Melamed burnout scaleLabor relations research in Israel

Born: 3 March 1937, Haifa
Died: 12 April 2012, Jerusalem
Occupation: psychologist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Arie Shirom was born in 1937 in Haifa

Arie Shirom was born in Haifa in 1937 and grew up there. He served in the Golani Brigade and was wounded in the 1956 Sinai War.

After his release he earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the Hebrew University. He completed his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States.

Back in Israel he lived in Jerusalem and joined Tel Aviv University. From 1968 to 1992 he helped found and taught in the labor studies department of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and from 1993 to 2007 he taught at the Faculty of Management. He first studied labor relations, then work stress and burnout, and with Shmuel Melamed developed a burnout scale translated into 8 languages.

He also developed a scale for measuring vigor at work and wrote more than 200 scientific papers. He sat on the 1988 state commission of inquiry into the health system, headed by Judge Shoshana Netanyahu, and chaired the Israeli association for labor relations research.

He retired in 2007 but kept up his research. He was married to Miriam, a chemist, and they had 2 children. He died of cancer in 2012.