The positive wellbeing aspects of workaholism in cross cultural perspective: The chocoholism metaphor

Career Development International

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 572-591

  Baruch, Yehuda ^a  

^a NEOMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Addiction; Cross cultural management; Employees behaviour; Hours of work; Long working hours; Quality of life; Well being at work; Work addiction; Workaholism

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055029433     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620431111178335     Document Type: Article

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