Heavy Work Investment Its Nature, Sources, Outcomes, and Future Directions [Paperback]

The book deals with the concept of Heavy Work Investment (HWI) recently initiated by Snir and Harpaz. Since its introduction the interest in the general HWI model has increased considerably. The book illustrates the development of HWI conceptualization, theory, and research. It deals with the foremost HWI subtype of workaholism. However, it also compares workaholism as a negative HWI subtype with work devotion/passion/engagement, as a positive HWI subtype. Most importantly, it addresses HWI in general, including its possible situational subtypes. In view of Snir and Harpaz's claim that the study of situational heavy work investors is relatively scarce, this certainly constitutes a promising step in the right direction. Finally, it deals with timely and important topics examined by prominent international researchers on Heavy Work Investment and such issues as: personality factors of workaholism, work-life balance, cross-cultural similarities and differences in HWI, work addiction and technology, HWI and retirement, and intergenerational similarity in work investment.

Series Foreword. Introduction:Workaholism, HWI subtypes and beyond  Towards a general model of work investment. Part 1: Nature, Sources, and Measurement of Heavy Work Investment (HWI) 1. A General Model of Heavy Work Investment 2. Personality Factors, Workaholism, and Heavy Work Investment 3. Heavy Work Investment: The Role of Passion 4. Workaholism: The Concept and Its Assessment 5. Dispositional Heavy Work Investment: A Review of Assessments Designed to Measure Addiction to and Passion for Work Part 2: HWI Subtypes and Outcomes 6. The beauty versus the beast: On the motives of engaged and workaholic employees 7. Distinctions between Overemployment, Overwork, Workaholism, and Heavy Investments in Work Time 8. How Workaholism Affects Employees and their Families. 9. Affective Reactions and Subsequent Consequences of Heavy Work Investments 10.l“É