Research Companion to Working Time And Work Addiction (New Horizons in Management)

381 Pages·2007·1.78 MB·English

by  Ronald J. Burke

Research Companion to Working Time and
Work Addiction
NEW HORIZONS IN MANAGEMENT
Series Editor:Cary L. Cooper, CBE, Professor of Organizational Psychology and
Health,Lancaster University Management School,Lancaster University,UK
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Research Companion
to Working Time and
Work Addiction
Edited by
Ronald J. Burke
Professor of Organizational Behavior,Schulich School of
Business,York University,Canada
NEW HORIZONS IN MANAGEMENT
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Cheltenham,UK • Northampton,MA,USA
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Research companion to working time and work addiction / Ronald J.Burke.
p.cm.— (New horizons in management series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Work.2.Work—Psychological aspects.3.Work—Social aspects.4.Quality
of work life.5.Work and family.6.Workaholism.I.Title.II.Series:New
horizons in management
HD4854.B84 2006 2006008416
ISBN-13:978 1 84542 408 4
ISBN-10:1 84542 408 5
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd,Bodmin,Cornwall
Contents
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Work hours and work addiction 3
Ronald J.Burke
2 How long? The historical,economic and cultural factors
behind working hours and overwork 36
Lonnie Golden
PART II DEFINITION AND CONSEQUENCES
OF WORKAHOLISM
3 The workaholic breakdown syndrome 61
Dr Barbara Killinger
4 Exploring new frontiers to generate an integrated
definition of workaholism 89
Lynley H.W.McMillan and Michael P.O’Driscoll
5 Understanding workaholism:the case for behavioral
tendencies 108
Peter E.Mudrack
PART III ANTECEDENTS AND TYPES OF
WORKAHOLICS
6 Making sense of temporal organizational boundary control 131
Graeme MacDermid
7 Economic and employment conditions,karoshi (work to
death) and the trend of studies on workaholism in Japan 158
Atsuko Kanai
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8 Workaholic types:it’s not how hard you work but why and
how you work hard 173
Ronald J.Burke
9 Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde? On the differences between work
engagement and workaholism 193
Wilmar B.Schaufeli,Toon W.Taris and Arnold B.Bakker
PART IV ADDRESSING WORK HOURS
AND WORKAHOLISM
10 ‘Decent working time’:balancing the needs of workers
and employers 221
Jon C.Messenger
11 The unlikely referral of workaholics to an employee
assistance program 242
Gayle Porter and Robert A.Herring III
12 Career success and personal failure:a developing need to
find balance 270
Ronald J.Burke and Teal McAteer-Early
13 Exploring career and personal outcomes and the
meaning of career success among part-time professionals
in organizations 284
Mary Dean Lee,Pamela Lirio,Fahri Karakas,Shelley
M.MacDermid,Michelle L.Buck and Ellen Ernst Kossek
14 Improving work–life balance:REBT for workaholic treatment 310
Charles P.Chen
15 Spiritual leadership theory as a source for future theory,
research,and recovery from workaholism 330
Louis W.Fry,Laura L.Matherly and Steve Vitucci
Index 353
Contributors
Arnold B.Bakker,Department of Social and Organizational Psychology,
Utrecht University,Utrecht,the Netherlands
Michelle L.Buck,Kellogg Graduate School ofManagement,Northwestern
University,Evanston,Illinois,USA
Ronald J.Burke,Professor of Organizational Behavior,Schulich School of
Business,York University,Toronto,Canada
Charles P.Chen,Ph.D.,Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology and
Canada Research Chair in Life Career Development,Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education,University of Toronto,(OISE/UT),Toronto,Ontario
Louis W.Fry,Tarleton State University,Central Texas,Killeen,Texas,USA
Lonnie Golden,Professor of Economics and Labor Studies,Pennsylvania
State University,Abington College,USA
Robert A.Herring III,School of Business and Economics,Winston-Salem
State University,Winston-Salem,North Carolina,USA
Atsuko Kanai, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human
Development,Nagoya University,Nagoya,Japan
Fahri Karakas, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University,
Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Dr Barbara Killinger,Private Practice,Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Ellen Ernst Kossek, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan
State University,East Lansing,Michigan,USA
Mary Dean Lee, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University,
Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Pamela Lirio, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University,
Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Graeme MacDermid, Lecturer, Schulich School of Business, York
University,Toronto,Ontario
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viii Contributors
Shelley M. MacDermid, Center for Families, Purdue University, West
Lafayette,Indiana,USA
Laura L. Matherly, Tarleton State University, Central Texas, Killeen,
Texas,USA
Teal McAteer-Early, Professor of Human Resources Management,
DeGroote School of Business,McMaster University,Hamilton,Ontario,
Canada
Lynley H.W.McMillan,Simply Strategic,Tauranga,New Zealand
Jon C.Messenger,Conditions ofWork and Employment Programme,ILO,
Geneva,Switzerland
Peter E. Mudrack, Department of Management, College of Business
Administration,Kansas State University,Manhattan,Kansas,USA
Michael P.O’Driscoll,Department of Psychology,University of Waikato,
Waikato,New Zealand
Gayle Porter, School of Business, Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey,Camden,New Jersey,USA
Wilmar B.Schaufeli,Department ofSocial and Organizational Psychology,
Utrecht University,Utrecht,the Netherlands
Toon W. Taris, Department of Work and Organizational Psychology,
Radboud University,Nijmegen,the Netherlands
Steve Vitucci,Tarleton State University,Central Texas,Killeen,Texas,USA
Acknowledgments
This volume has a long history.Much of my research and writing over the
past 40 years has examined the ways in which work experiences influence
individual well-being,a thread that ties this body of scholarship together.
I have worked for almost 55 years,starting with a summer job when I was
thirteen,working 35 hours a week and earning 50 cents an hour.In fact,it
was my early work experiences that got me interested in studying organ-
izational psychology. Work has provided many positive experiences and
feelings for me along with the inevitable negative ones. Althought I have
now achieved a satisfying integration of work with my other life interests,
there were times,particularly in my early career,when I probably worked
too hard.Hopefully this collection will help others ‘get it’sooner than I did.
I owe a debt of gratitude to several people for their contributions to and
assistance with my work in this area. These include Janet Spence, Zena
Burgess,Stig Matthiesen,Mustafa Koyuncu,Eddy Ng,Astrid Richardsen,
Graeme MacDermid and Lisa Fiksenbaum. Lisa participated in data
analysis for most of my research projects on work addiction.I also express
my ongoing appreciation to my family: Susan, Sharon, Rachel and Jeff.
With them,life has meaning and joy.
This is my second book with Edward Elgar,with a third being developed
as this was being written.Their staffhave always been helpful,efficient and
professional.I thank my international contributors for sharing their think-
ing on this important topic. Finally, preparation of this volume was sup-
ported in part by the Schulich School of Business.
Ronald Burke
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