Research Companion to Working Time and Work Addiction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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This Research Companion examines the effects of work hours on individual and family well-being and questions why people work hard and whether some can work too hard. It integrates contributions from two areas of research - work hours and work addiction - that have historically been pursued separately. Ronald Burke argues that while work hours have decreased for blue-collar workers, they have increased for professionals and managers, particularly in developed countries. He reveals that some employees need to work long hours while others do so willingly: people work long hours to meet individual needs and due to societal incentives such as materialism and consumerism. The book concludes that working long hours is only part of the story; why one works long hours and how one works these long hours emerge as powerful factors in determining the link between hours worked and well-being. The volume also includes recommendations for addressing a long hours culture at individual, family, organizational, community and societal levels.Academics, students, researchers and policymakers with an interest in human resource management, work hours and work addiction and their effects will find this highly original Companion to be a fascinating rea

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Utgivningsdatum2006-11-28
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781845424084

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Contents:PrefacePART I: INTRODUCTION1. Work Hours and Work AddictionRonald J. Burke2. How Long? The Historical, Economic and Cultural Factors Behind Working Hours and OverworkLonnie GoldenPART II: DEFINITION AND CONSEQUENCES OF WORKAHOLISM3. The Workaholic Breakdown SyndromeBarbara Killinger4. Exploring New Frontiers to Generate an Integrated Definition of WorkaholismLynley H.W. McMillan and Michael P. O’Driscoll5. Understanding Workaholism: The Case for Behavioral TendenciesPeter E. MudrackPART III: ANTECEDENTS AND TYPES OF WORKAHOLICS6. Making Sense of Temporal Organizational Boundary ControlGraeme MacDermid7. Economic and Employment Conditions, Karoshi (Work to Death) and the Trend of Studies on Workaholism in JapanAtsuko Kanai8. Workaholic Types: It’s Not How Hard You Work but Why and How You Work HardRonald J. Burke9. Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde? On the Differences between Work Engagement and WorkaholismWilmar B. Schaufeli, Toon W. Taris and Arnold B. BakkerPART IV: ADDRESSING WORK HOURS AND WORKAHOLISM10. ‘Decent Working Time’: Balancing the Needs of Workers and EmployersJon C. Messenger11. The Unlikely Referral of Workaholics to an Employee Assistance ProgramGayle Porter and Robert A. Herring III12. Career Success and Personal Failure: A Developing Need to Find BalanceRonald J. Burke and Teal McAteer-Early13. Exploring Career and Personal Outcomes and the Meaning of Career Success Among Part-time Professionals in OrganizationsMary Dean Lee, Pamela Lirio, Fahri Karakas, Shelley M. MacDermid, Michelle L. Buck and Ellen Ernst Kossek14. Improving Work–Life Balance: REBT for Workaholic TreatmentCharles P. Chen15. Spiritual Leadership Theory as a Source for Future Theory, Research, and Recovery for WorkaholismLouis W. Fry, Laura L. Matherly and Steve VitucciIndex