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"While the idea of workaholism and the economic pressures to work harder and longer have been around for some time, this will be one of the first comprehensive volumes to look at this topic with a new lens called Heavy Work Investment (HWI) and offer research on the contributing factors to its nature, sources outcomes and future. Chapters on Work family issues, cross national political and economic realities, depression and suicide aspects of workaholism with positive aspects and work ethics also included will make this an interesting book for all students of Industrial Organizational psychology, organizational behaviour and human resource management"--
List of contents
Series Foreword. Introduction: Workaholism, HWI subtypes and beyond – Towards a general model of work investment. Part 1: Nature, Sources, and Measurement of Heavy Work Investment (HWI) 1. A General Model of Heavy Work Investment 2. Personality Factors, Workaholism, and Heavy Work Investment 3. Heavy Work Investment: The Role of Passion 4. Workaholism: The Concept and Its Assessment 5. Dispositional Heavy Work Investment: A Review of Assessments Designed to Measure Addiction to and Passion for Work Part 2: HWI Subtypes and Outcomes 6. The beauty versus the beast: On the motives of engaged and workaholic employees 7. Distinctions between Overemployment, Overwork, Workaholism, and Heavy Investments in Work Time 8. How Workaholism Affects Employees and their Families. 9. Affective Reactions and Subsequent Consequences of Heavy Work Investments 10. The Relationship between Heavy Work Investment and Employee’s Happiness Part 3: Special Issues in the Study of HWI 11. Work-family Balance in the Era of Intensive Work 12. Workaholism in a Dynamic Workforce 13. Heavy Work Investment, Bridge Employment, and the Transition to Retirement 14. Work Addicts’ Attributions about Company-supplied Smartphones Part 4: Future Directions in Conceptualization and Research of HWI 15. Is Work Addiction a Proper Label for High Work Investment Habits? 16. Applying the Biosocial Model to Examine Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences 17. Bring Your Parents to the Job Interview – Intergenerational Similarity in (Heavy) Work Investment Epilogue: The Current State of Heavy Work Investment and Future Developments
About the author
Itzhak Harpaz, PhD, is Professor of Management, Dean of Graduate Studies, and director of the Center for the Study of Organizations and Human Resource Management at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Raphael Snir,
PhD, is Senior Lecturer at the School of Management and Economics and at the School of Behavioral Sciences at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel. He is also a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Organizations and Human Resource Management at the University of Haifa, Israel.
