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From "This Job is Killing Me" to " I Live the Life I Love and I Love the Life I Live", or from Stakhanov to Contemporary Workaholics
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F. W. Taylor is often celebrated as a founding father of organization and management theory, one whose commitment to efficiency is legendary. If we define efficiency in terms of maximizing output from a given – or lesser – number of workers it can be considered that, in some cases, Taylor’s science has achieved a remarkable success. Contemporary organizations managed to create such a state of commitment (be it spontaneous or imposed), that people have adopted excessive working as lifestyle. Life is organized around work, with work occupying more and more territory from the former private life. We discuss the notion of excessive working, present several forms of excessive working, contest the idea that excessive working is necessarily noxious, suggest a dynamic understanding of the different forms of excessive working, and challenge researchers critically to discuss their practical success. As the saying goes, there can be too much of a good thing.
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Organizational behaviour Excessive work Stakhanov Workaholism Motivation Busyness Lifestyles
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Pina e Cunha, Miguel, Cabral-Cardoso, Carlos, Rego, Arménio and Clegg, Stewart, From "This Job is Killing Me" to " I Live the Life I Love and I Love the Life I Live", or from Stakhanov to Contemporary Workaholics (2007). FEUNL Working Paper Series No. 519