Introduction: The study of work engagement is key for better understanding the underlying mechanisms that lead people to feel more motivated at work. The construct has gained prominence over recent decades, and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) has emerged as the most popular tool to assess t...
Heavy Work Investment (HWI) is a construct that comprises both workaholism and work engagement. We tested a path analysis model on 364 Italian workers, with servant leadership as a predictor of HWI and HWI as a predictor of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB) and Counterproductive Work Behavi...
Research has shown that the knowledge worker, the decisive driver of the knowledge economy, works increasingly longer hours. In fact, it would appear that instead of working to live, they live to work. There appears to be three reasons for this living-to-work development. First, the knowledge worker...
Research has shown that the knowledge worker, the decisive driver of the knowledge economy, works increasingly longer hours. In fact, it would appear that instead of working to live, they live to work. There appears to be three reasons for this living-to-work development. First, the knowledge worker...
Recently, I had this career planning workshop for high-performing young female researchers. We talked about many things like time management, finding our values, preventing burnout and so on. But one very common theme, at least for me, was the question of "work life balance" (a bad term actually) an...
People are generally assumed to shy away from activities generating stochastic rewards, thus requiring extra compensation for handling any additional risk. In contrast with this view, neurosci-ence research with animals has shown that stochastic rewards may act as a powerful motivator. Applying thes...
"This paper discusses 過労死 (Karōshi)'s phenomenon, stating it as a social labor-related issue. It presents Karōshi as sudden death by overworking. This paper objective consists in showing it as a singular and particular case of Japanese workaholism, rooted in its own cultural work system, conceptuali...
"Background: Recent studies have pointed to a relationship between personality variables, engagement, and the lifestyle of workers with workaholism. Our goal in the present study is to carry out a predictive study of the pre-existing variables for workaholism. Method: The study sample participants w...
El presente artículo de revisión, expone los resultados de una investigación bibliográfica sobre la relación existente entre las creencias irracionales, la adicción al trabajo y el síndrome de Burnout en el contexto de las organizaciones. Con esta finalidad, se contemplaron aspectos como la conceptu...
"Background: This study follows the theoretical framework put forward by Hinton on creative potential and practised creativity. The objective was to adapt the 17-item Creative Potential and Practised Creativity scale into Spanish and examine its psychometric properties. Method: The study sample was...
"El trabajo tiene connotaciones positivas, pero también puede ser un escenario donde se presentan riesgos que pueden desarrollar aspectos negativos. Esta investigación intenta profundizar en la relación existente entre dos conceptos del escenario laboral: la irritación laboral con sus dos dimensione...
"Este estudio se enmarca dentro de la propuesta de Mayfield y Mayfield (2008, 2010) sobre las percepciones del entorno creativo. El objetivo fue realizar la adaptación al español de la escala Creative Environment Perceptions de nueve ítems y analizar sus propiedades psicométricas. Los participantes...
"El objetivo de este estudio fue realizar la adaptación al español del inventario WorkBAT de Spence y Robbins (1992) y analizar sus propiedades psicométricas. Para ello se administró una versión adaptada al español a dos muestras, la primera de ellas de 285 empleados (56.5% mujeres y 43.5% hombres)...
"The purpose of this paper was to investigate the associations between attachment styles, perfectionism, and job motivational potential with job engagement and workaholism. A self-report questionnaire that included psychometrically-sound measures of the key constructs was completed by a sample of 13...
"La sociedad maya prehispánica y la posterior sociedad colonial fueron sociedades agrarias por lo que la no llegada de lluvias a su debido tiempo, el exceso de las mismas o la presencia de plagas como la de langosta, provocaban no sólo crisis agrícolas sino crisis de subsistencia. En este artículo s...
"This paper examines the workaholism phenomenon in different work situations in Colombian company. Workaholism was defined as the individual’s steady and considerable allocation of time to work, which is not derived from external necessities (1). The research studies about workaholics and workaholis...
La sociedad maya prehispánica y la posterior sociedad colonial fueron sociedades agrarias por lo que la no llegada de lluvias a su debido tiempo, el exceso de las mismas o la presencia de plagas como la de langosta, provocaban no sólo crisis agrícolas sino crisis de subsistencia. En este artículo se...
"The current study contributes to our understanding of workaholism as a negative construct, and to itsmeasurement by examining the psychometric properties of a short 10-item workaholism scale calledDUWAS (Dutch Work Addiction Scale). Confirmatory factor analyses were carried out in a heterogeneous s...
Este escrito propone el empleo del lenguaje contingencial desarrollado por Mechner (2008) para examinar la serie de variables que producen y mantienen el comportamiento adictivo al trabajo. Se examina el uso de tres términos asociados: trabajolismo, desgaste laboral y pasión por el trabajo, a partir...
"Con la llegada de los españoles a la región de los Andes venezolanos se comenzó elaprovechamiento de la fuerza de trabajo del indígena, es decir, se dio inicio al trabajocompulsivo obligatorio o a la explotación por parte de los conquistadores de la manode obra aborigen, lo cual se le facilitó en...