workaholic


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person with a compulsive need to work

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A positive link between workaholism and sensed supervisor support may indicate that supervisors may back or further a workaholic's immoderate engagement with work.
I can see that - both teams are extreme workaholics."
They were deemed a workaholic If they scored "often" or "always" on four or more statements, and this occurred for 7.8 percent of participants.
He doesn't say a lot but he gets on with the job and with other people and he's a workaholic around the pitch.
The 19-year-old Vogue model claims she was "brought up to be a workaholic'' by her parents, Bruce and Kris Jenner, and worries about getting older.
Workaholic employees work strenuously to attain success and to prevent failure, tend to be neurotic (Bacalu, 2014), and to pursue avoidance objectives.
5REGARDING 5 REGARDING HENRY (1991) HARRISON FORD plays a workaholic businessman who finds his world turned upside down when he is hurt in a mugging and awakes with no memory of his former life.
MR POPPER'S PENGUINS (Channel 4, today, 6.15pm) JIM CARREY plays as workaholic businessman who puts his job before his family.
TV star Bradley Walsh has revealed he quit Law & Order because he feared his workaholic mentality would send him to an early grave.
Melbourne, March 15 ( ANI ): Men's online magazine AskMen has come out with ways to gauge if you have become a workaholic.
To follow him was not always simple as he was workaholic. In our community he will be remembered as a person of great hart, cleaver mind and a soft soul.
For his part, Herzog insisted he's not a workaholic.
Neikirk, Associate Executive Director of Conifer Park Treatment Center in Scotia, NY has worked with and studied the workaholic. He defines work compulsion this way: "A compulsive worker is one who continues in the same activity patter despite the fact that this pattern creates significant problems in major life areas.
Glicken declares himself a work-addicted striver and presents a volume of sensible and respectful direction for his workaholic brethren.
The term has grown in familiarity and has been used progressively more often in the media, on the Internet, and in the empirical literature since Oates (1971) first created the term workaholic to describe a person whose enhanced necessity to work impedes multiple life functions.