Live to Work or Love to Work: Work Craving and Work Engagement

Live to Work or Love to Work: Work Craving and Work Engagement

OBJECTIVE According to the theory of work craving, a workaholic has a craving for self-worth compensatory incentives and an expectation of relief from negative affect experienced through neurotic perfectionism and an obsessive-compulsive style of working. Research has shown that workaholism and work engagement should be considered as two distinct work styles with different health consequences. ...

Mediating Role of Work Ethics in Relation to Ethical Leadership and Organizational Justice with Work Engagement

Background: An important issue for organizations is to identify factors related to job motivation and use these factors to increase the level of enthusiasm of their employees. The purpose of this study is to explain the effect of ethical leadership and organizational justice on job motivation by emphasizing the mediating role of work ethic. Methods: The present study was descriptive-correlatio...

Relationship between Nurses\' Work Effectiveness and Their Work Engagement

Background: Nurses play an important role in the healthcare system and constitute the highest number of healthcare workers. A positive attitude or a positive state of mind at work may increase the ability to carry out the organization's duties, tasks and plans. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between work effectiveness and work engagement of nurses working in the selec...

Work to Live or Live to Work ? Unemployment , Happiness , and Culture ∗

Happiness drops when individuals become unemployed. The negative impact of the unemployment shock, however, may differ by cultural background. To test the hypothesis of a ‘Teutonic work ethic’, this paper takes advantage of Switzerland in its cultural diversity. By comparing different cultural groups in the same institutional setting, I empirically test whether such deep psychological traits ha...

To work or not to work?