Heavy work investment, personality and organizational climate

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the relative importance of personality and organizational climate for two forms of heavy work investment; workaholism, a “bad” and work engagement, which represents a “good” kind of heavy work investment. More specifically, it is hypothesized that workaholism is positively related to neuroticism (H1) and that work engagement is negatively related to neuroticism and positively to the remaining Big Five personality traits (H2). In addition it is hypothesized that workaholism is positively related to an overwork climate (H3), whereas work engagement is positively related to an employee growth climate (H4). Design/methodology/approach – An online survey was conducted among a sample of the Dutch workforce (n=1,973) and the research model was tested using structural equation modeling. Findings – It appeared that, in accordance to H1 and H2, particularly neuroticism is related to workaholism, while all personality traits are related to work engagement (predominantly openness to experience and neuroticism). Moreover, and also in accordance with the hypotheses, workaholism is exclusively related to an overwork climate (and not to a growth climate), whereas work engagement is exclusively related to an employee growth climate (and not to an overwork climate). Originality/value – For the first time the simultaneous impact of personality and organizational climate on two different forms of heavy work investment is investigated. Since no interaction effects have been observed it means that of personality and organizational climate have an independent but also specific impact on both forms of heavy work investment.

Adicción al trabajo en profesionales autónomos

“…Nesse sentido, pode-se pensar que o PA, por não ter uma delimitação das horas a serem trabalhadas, também tem elevada a quantidade de tarefas laborais assumidas, já que estas constituem sua renda salarial. As horas de trabalho do PA se complementam no espaço reservado à vida pessoal, gerando uma carga horária mais elevada para a realização de atividades que resultam em maior TE (Schaufeli, 2016). O excesso de trabalho para além de uma jornada de horas de trabalho equilibrada entre vida pessoal e profissional implica no aumento de TE (Mazzetti et al, 2014), principalmente em PA, no qual os limites entre trabalho e vida pessoal podem ser transgredidos facilmente (Andreassen et al, 2016).…”

“…A AT tem sido explicada por variáveis individuais -sociodemográficas, motivação/foco regulatório, características de personalidade (Clark, 2017;Mazzetti, Schaufeli, & Guglielmi, 2014;Schaufeli, 2016;Tabassum & Rahman, 2012), satisfação com a vida (Pinheiro & Carlotto, 2016) -e laborais, como o tipo de profissão (Taris et al, 2012), trabalhar individualmente ou em equipe (Littman-Ovadia, Balducci, & Ben-Moshe, 2014), remuneração (Sharma & Sharma, 2011), tempo de atuação profissional (Mazzetti et al, 2014;Taris et al, 2012), carga horária semanal (Carlotto, 2011;Castillo & Gómez, 2012;Mazzetti et al, 2014) e quantidade de horas utilizadas com tecnologia da informação e comunicação (Andreassen, 2014). No que diz respeito às sociodemográficas, estudos revelam índices mais elevados em mulheres (Littman-Ovadia, Balducci, & Ben-Moshe, 2014), profissionais mais jovens (Mazzetti, Schaufeli, & Guglielmi, 2014;Taris et al, 2012), de maior escolaridade (Andreassen et al, 2014) e menor salário (Sharma & Sharma, 2011).…”

Workaholism and occupational health: A translational review

“…Moreover, Clark, Lelchook, and Taylor () conducted a study on working students and found that extraversion, neuroticism, and openness to experience were related to workaholism. Due to the incongruent results, Schaufeli () proposed that the disparate findings are mostly attributable to the measures used to assess workaholism and the equivocal definitions of this variable. Furthermore, Schaufeli () suggested that when the measures utilized to assess workaholism reflect its fundamental elements (i.e., compulsive and excessive working), then workaholism will strongly correlate with neuroticism.…”

“…Due to the incongruent results, Schaufeli () proposed that the disparate findings are mostly attributable to the measures used to assess workaholism and the equivocal definitions of this variable. Furthermore, Schaufeli () suggested that when the measures utilized to assess workaholism reflect its fundamental elements (i.e., compulsive and excessive working), then workaholism will strongly correlate with neuroticism. Although results confirmed this proposition in a sample of 1,973 Dutch participants, Schaufeli () also found that extraversion and agreeableness were significantly related to workaholism.…”

“…Furthermore, Schaufeli () suggested that when the measures utilized to assess workaholism reflect its fundamental elements (i.e., compulsive and excessive working), then workaholism will strongly correlate with neuroticism. Although results confirmed this proposition in a sample of 1,973 Dutch participants, Schaufeli () also found that extraversion and agreeableness were significantly related to workaholism. Based on these mixed findings, Clark et al.…”