Heavy work investment, personality and organizational climate
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the relative importance of personality and organizational climate for two forms of heavy work investment; workaholism, a "bad" and work engagement, which represents a "good" kind of heavy work investment. More specifically, it is hypothesized that workaholism is positively related to neuroticism (H1) and that work engagement is negatively related to neuroticism and positively to the remaining Big Five personality traits (H2) In addition it is hypothesized that workaholism is positively related to an overwork climate (H3) whereas work engagement is positively related to an employee growth climate (H4) Design/methodology/approach An online survey was conducted among a sample of the Dutch workforce (n=1,973) and the research model was tested using structural equation modeling. Findings It appeared that, in accordance to H1 and H2, particularly neuroticism is related to workaholism, while all personality traits are related to work engagement (predominant.