Workaholism: Its Definition and Nature

By Itzhak Harpaz, R. Snir. 2003

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Workaholic worker type differences in work‐family conflict: The moderating role of supervisor support and flexible work scheduling (2006, background): “In fact, the relationship between gender and workaholism in the literature is ambiguous, with some studies suggesting that workaholics are more likely to be male (Harpaz & Snir, 2003) and others suggesting females are more likely to be workaholics (Spence & Robbins, 1992).”
Satisfaction with work-family balance among German office workers. (2010, background): “This construct is distinct from workaholism which refers to individuals' actual, voluntary, and steady allocation of a considerable amount of time to work related activities ( Harpaz and Snir, 2003”
Relational and Identity Perspectives on Healthy Versus Unhealthy Pursuit of Callings (2012, background): “For example, while those for whom pursuing a calling is healthy may exhibit a healthy commitment to, and investment in work, those for whom pursuing a calling becomes unhealthy may be better characterized by an overcommitment or overinvestment to the work domain (Harpaz & Snir, 2003).”
Leisure as a coping resource: A test of the job demand-control-support model (2009, background): “Research also indicates that professionals are more likely to be workaholics than workers from other occupations (Harpaz & Snir, 2003).”
Workaholism, work stress, work‐life imbalance: exploring gender's role (2008, background): “In fact, some researchers suggest that it important to explore potential gender differences in future studies of workaholism ( Harpaz and Snir, 2003”
The positive wellbeing aspects of workaholism in cross cultural perspective (2011, background): “These definitions fall flat as the reasons for long working hours do not necessarily stem from workaholism, although though workaholics tend to work more hours than their counterparts ( Harpaz and Snir, 2003”
Workaholism and work engagement: how are they similar? How are they different? A systematic review and meta-analysis (2019, background): “…of view workaholic behaviour might be seen simply as hard working or overworking (del Líbano, 2011; Douglas & Morris, 2006; Scott, Moore, & Miceli, 1997), the excessive amount of time and energy dedicated to work is not justified by need for money or organizational demands (Harpaz & Snir, 2003)�.”
Weekly job crafting and leisure crafting: Implications for meaning‐making and work engagement (2017, background): “Themore importantwork is for employees, themore likely it is that theywill spend most of their time on activities within the work domain (Stryker & Serpe, 1994) and that they will derive purpose from their jobs (Harpaz & Snir, 2003).”
The influence of family responsibilities, career fields and gender on career success (2008, background): “, 2002), workaholism (Harpaz and Snir, 2003) or determining factors of work centrality such as socio-economic status, work values or socialization (Mannheim, 1993).”
All Work and No Play? A Meta-Analytic Examination of the Correlates and Outcomes of Workaholism (2016, methodology): “We used the Hunter and Schmidt (2004) meta-analysis approach to calculate meta-analytic mean correlations, standard deviations, and percentage of variance due to sampling error.”
A Tale of Passion: Linking Job Passion and Cognitive Engagement to Employee Work Performance (2011, unknown): “…is construed as a set of potentially destructive behaviors that include spending excessive time at work and neglecting other areas of life (e.g., Harpaz & Snir, 2003; Mudrack, 2004; Oates, 1971; Porter, 1996), whereas obsessive job passion is defined as an attitude that may result in the set of…”
On the difficulty of promoting workers' safety behaviour: overcoming the underweighting of routine risks (2007, background): “One interesting example is the workaholic syndrome that prevails among professionals who can control their pace and amount of work (Harpaz and Snir, 2003).”
Beyond workaholism: Towards a general model of heavy work investment (2012, background): “…Towards a general model of heavy work investment, Human Resource Management Review (2011), doi:10.1016/j.hrmr.2011.11.011 workaholism merely according to the time dimension (e.g., Harpaz & Snir, 2003; Snir & Harpaz, 2004) is somewhat simplistic, since it disregards how one acts duringworking time.”
The Workaholism Analysis Questionnaire: Emphasizing Work-Life Imbalance and Addiction in the Measurement of Workaholism (2013, background): “Researchers have failed to agree on a unified definition of workaholism (Buelens & Poelmans, 2004; Harpaz & Snir, 2003; Scott, Moore, & Miceli, 1997) and the existing measures are often criticized for lack of validity and reliability (Ersoy-Kart, 2005; McMillan, Brady, O’Driscoll, & Marsh, 2002).”