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Investigating the effect of work addiction and occupational health on the quality of work life of employees of Soroush platform

Number of pages: 117 File Format: word File Code: 30702
Year: 2014 University Degree: Master's degree Category: Management
Tags/Keywords: Occupational health - Quality of work life - Soroush platform - Work addiction
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    Dissertation for Master's Degree in Management (M.A)

    Trend: Human Resources

    Abstract:

    The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of work addiction and occupational health on the quality of work life of Soroush Platform employees, and the statistical population is all employees of this platform in the second half of 2013. The research method is one of the descriptive and correlational researches, and according to the way of analyzing the data, it belongs to the correlational category. Data collection tools include Spence and Robbins' standard work addiction questionnaire, Walton's quality of work life, and Goldberg's and Hiller's occupational health questionnaire. In this research, work addiction was measured with all its three dimensions, including the dimension of attachment to work, inner desire to work, and enjoyment of work, and the relationship and impact of each of these dimensions with occupational health and quality of work life, as well as the relationship and impact of occupational health on quality of work life, were analyzed using spss software and correlation, regression and Friedman tests. The results show that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between workaholism and occupational health and the quality of work life of employees, as well as all three dimensions of workaholism with the quality of work life and the first and third dimensions of workaholism and occupational health, and they can predict them. In the meantime, the dimension of attachment to work has the greatest impact on the quality of work life among other aspects of work addiction.

    Key words: work addiction, occupational health, quality of work life, Soroush platform.

    Chapter 1: Research overview

    1-1 Introduction:

         Contrary to the fact that most employees are not attached to their work and prefer to spend time in it. It is possible, some of them are working for many hours with high efficiency and efficiency, among these people we can mention the employees of satellite companies in countries where specialized manpower is of particular importance in these places and they are forced to live in their workplace for many days, and this can be added to stimuli such as external rewards and internal motivations so that these people have enough motivation to engage with their work. Workaholism may be enjoyable at first, but it can potentially be problematic and exhausting. These people don't necessarily love their work, but they can't spend their hours without their work, and they also think that only they can do that particular work, and over time, due to excessive work, they are considered workaholics.

    The word workaholism was first used by Oates [1] in 1971. According to Oates, a workaholic is someone who has a strong need for work, and this strong desire for work may harm a person's health, interpersonal relationships, and personal duties because a person has an unreasonable commitment to excessive work and devotes a lot of time to work activities voluntarily and internally. Snair [2] (2008) believes that work addiction is different from being productive because productive people know what they are doing. How should they go to work so that they can take care of their social relationships on time and spend their free time with their family, and in general, work addiction means constant cognitive involvement in addition to thinking about work even during free time.

    The most important consequences of work addiction are: job stress and work conflict, job burnout, problems and problems in teamwork, isolation and distance from social and family interactions, problems in communicating with others, low satisfaction with Life and not enjoying leisure time. (Qalipour 1387, 110-91)

    Addiction to the user based on the amount and degree includes the following dimensions:

    Being busy

    Internal desire to work

    Enjoying work (Spinsh and Robbins[3] 1992, 160-78)

    People who are active in work, Enthusiastic, self-sacrificing and attractive, they are attached to their work, they enjoy it, and they are not extremely attracted to work, but work addicts work in a bad and extreme way, and their degree of attachment to work is high, but they do not enjoy their work. (Shoufli et al. 2008, 203-173)

    Regarding the relationship and effect that workaholism potentially and effectively has on occupational health and the quality of work life, and according to the subject of this research, we investigate the effect of workaholism on two other variables.

    Relatively, the quality of work life means the collection of employees' perception of their physical and mental health in their work environment. (Cassio [4] 1995)

    Work addiction and attachment to work are somehow different from each other, so that work addiction has a negative relationship with people's health. This is despite the fact that workaholism has a positive relationship with health, but both have a positive relationship with job performance and career advancement. (Shoufli et al. 2008) Considering the role and importance of human resources in the success of organizations and achieving their goals, the study of human behavior has attracted the attention of many organizational behavior specialists, such as the employees of organizations and other companies in general, and the Continental Plateau Oil Company (Behrgan region) in particular. Khas is not an exception to this and this company needs to increase the quality and quantity of the work of these professionals, but this should not lead to an increase in work addiction among these employees considering the long time they spend at their workplace and cause them to be away from their families. Therefore, according to the importance of the subject, as well as the existence of uncertainties, questions and the interest of the researcher, the main purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between work addiction and the quality of working life of Soroush platform employees, and this research is to answer questions such as:

    What is the relationship between work addiction and the occupational health of Soroush platform employees? What is the relationship between work addiction and the safety and health quality of Soroush platform employees? What is the relationship between work addiction and the opportunity for growth and continuous security of Soroush platform employees?

    1-2 statement of the problem:

         Whenever we have a problem, we must know that we have not followed the measurements and we have exceeded our limits and, as the famous saying goes, we have stretched our legs longer than our carpet. Then, if a problem or problem arises, we should not blame anyone else but ourselves. "But I will not blame myself" (Holy Qur'an, Surah Yunus)

    Nowadays, taking into account that organizations cover all aspects of human life and people are inevitably immersed in various organizations, it should be noted that the purpose of creating organizations should be to help people to achieve their goals and not to The organization should turn man into a tool to achieve its goals. Nowadays, we are witnessing that people are so engrossed in organizations and their goals as if they are their servants. This can not only bring positive results, but still, its negative results are undeniable and unavoidable. (Sneir and Zohr[5] 2008, 127-109)

    In a recent study conducted by Morgan in the Supreme Court of the United States, the results indicated that overwork causes work addiction, which, like all addictions, will have many negative consequences for the employees of organizations. The material and spiritual incentives themselves increase the addiction to work and fuel it in order to achieve their goals. Morgan calls these organizations addictive organizations, and in other words, they are organizations that encourage people to do things that will increase the productivity of those organizations. (Morgan[6] 2006)

    One of the reasons that organizations from Addressing the problem of work addiction is avoided because the existence of many such people addicted to work in organizations is beneficial to the organization and removing or reducing these people will not bring a favorable phenomenon for the organization. Despite this, organizations should pay attention and act in such a way that not only work addiction in people is not eliminated, but by keeping and maintaining people's work addiction at an appropriate level, it is possible to increase the productivity and performance of people, because excessive work addiction endangers people's physical and mental health. Therefore, having people with good physical and mental health is one of the main factors of increasing work performance, but it is suggested that organizations identify people addicted to excessive work and through the strategy of temporarily disconnecting the person from the organization, give them compulsory leave in order to moderate their excessive work addiction and help increase their productivity and performance. The mentioned strategy is also possible by reducing the overtime of the above people. It is also possible to intentionally reduce the workload of the mentioned people in some cases and periods of time in order to reduce their anxiety and mental preoccupation related to work.

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    Table of Contents

    Title                                                                                               Page Number

    Abstract. 1 Chapter 1: Overview of the research 1-1- Introduction. 3

    1-2- Statement of the problem. 5

    1-3- Research questions. 7

    1-3-1 main questions. 7

    1-3-2 sub-questions. 8

    1-4- The importance and necessity of research. 8

    1-5- Research objectives. 10

    1-5-1 General objectives. 10

    1-5-2 Specific and practical goals. 10

    1-6- research assumptions. 10

    1-6-1 main assumptions. 10

    1-6-2 Sub-hypotheses. 11

    1-7- Study limitations of the research. 11

    1-7-1 Spatial territory. 11

    1-7-2 Time realm. 11

    1-8- conceptual model of research. 12

    9-1- Operational model of research 14

    1-10- Conceptual and operational definitions of research. 15

    1-10-1 work addiction. 15

    1-10-2 enjoyment of work. 15

    1-10-3 internal desire to work. 15

    1-10-4 Getting involved with work. 15

    1-10-5 occupational health. 16

    1-10-6 Anxiety symptoms and sleep disorder. 16

    1-10-7 social function. 16

    1-10-8 symptoms of depression. 16

    1-10-9 Quality of working life. 16

    1-10-10 Development of human capabilities. 17

    1-10-11 fair and adequate payment. 17

    1-10-12 Safe and healthy working conditions. 17

    1-10-13 The possibility of continuous growth and security. 18

    1-10-14 Belief in the necessity of rule of law. 18

    1-10-15 social coalitions in the work organization. 18

    1-10-16 balanced role of work. 18

    1-10-17 Valid and socially beneficial work. 19

    1-10-18 Soroush platform.        19

    1-11- Research variables. 19

    1-12- Thesis structure. 20

    Chapter Two: Review of Literature and Research Background

    2-1- Introduction 22

    2-2- Part One: Work Addiction. 23

    2-2-1 Introduction. 23

    2-2-2 Definition of work addiction. 24

    2-2-3 The importance of work addiction. 26

    2-2-4 types of approaches to work addiction. 27

    2-2-5 The difference between workaholics and overworked people. 28

    2-2-6 common characteristics of workaholics. 31

    2-2-7 Types of work addiction 32

    2-2-8 Symptoms of people addicted to work. 33

    2-2-9 Identification of factors affecting work addiction 34

    2-2-10 Work addiction and personality dimensions. 34

    2-2-11 methods of reducing and treating work addiction. 36

    2-3- The second part: occupational health. 37

    2-3-1 Introduction 37

    2-3-2 The importance of occupational (professional) health 38

    2-3-3 History of occupational (professional) health 40

    2-3-4 Summary of the chronicle of occupational health through history. 40

    2-3-5 definition of occupational health (professional) 41

    2-4- The third part: quality of working life. 42

    2-4-1 Introduction 42

    2-4-2 History of quality of working life. 44

    2-4-3 Defining the quality of working life. 45

    2-4-4 The importance of the quality of working life. 49

    2-4-5 The process of changing the expectations of organizations and employees and the quality of work life. 51

    2-4-6 indicators of the quality of working life. 51

    2-4-7 goals of the quality of working life. 54

    2-4-8 Management and quality of work life. 54

    2-4-9 characteristics of the quality of working life. 55

    2-4-10 theories of the quality of working life. 56

    2-4-11 programs to improve the quality of working life. 60

    2-4-12 Limitations of work life quality programs. 60

    2-4-13 The mutual effect of productivity and quality of work life. 61

    2-5- The fourth part: Iranian continental shelf oil company. 62

    2-5-1 History of Continental Plateau Oil Company of Iran. 62

    2-5-2 The main field of activity of Iranian continental plateau oil company. 63

    2-5-3 Objectives and policies of Iranian continental shelf oil company. 63

    2-5-4 Behrgan area. 64

    2-5-5 Soroush platform, peace platform. 66

    2-6- The fifth section: Research background. 68

    2-6-1 Internal investigation. 68

    2-6-2 Foreign research. 71

    2-7- The sixth part: Presentation of the research conceptual model. 74

    2-7-1 Presentation of Spence and Robbins model. 74

    2-7-2 Presentation of Richard Walton's model. 75

    2-7-3 presentation of the Goldberg and Hiller model. 76

    2-7-4 Presentation of the research conceptual model.77

    Chapter 3: Research implementation method

    3-1- Introduction 79

    3-2- Research method. 79

    3-3- Statistical population. 80

    3-4- Determining the sample size and sampling method 80

    3-5 Information collection tools and methods. 82

    3-5-1 Library studies. 82

    3-5-2 Using the questionnaire. 82

    3-5-2-1 Questionnaire and its components. 83

    3-6- Checking the validity and reliability of the measurement tool. 85

    3-6-1 Validity of the questionnaire 85

    3-6-2 Reliability of the questionnaire 86

    3-7- Methods and techniques of statistical analysis used 87

    Chapter four: Data analysis

    4-1- Introduction. 90

    4-2- Descriptive statistics. 90

    4-2-1 Gender. 91

    4-2-2 age. 91

    4-2-3 level of education. 93

    4-2-4 service history. 94

    4-2-5 field of job activity. 94

    4-3- Inferential statistics. 96

    4-3-1 test to check the normality of variables 96

    4-3-2 Manova variance analysis test. 98

    4-3-2-1 Manova test of work addiction questionnaire. 98

    4-3-2-2 Manova test of quality of work life questionnaire. 98

    4-3-3 Testing research hypotheses. 99

    4-3-3-1 Testing the main hypotheses. 99

    4-3-3-1-1 The first main research hypothesis. 99

    4-3-3-2 Test of secondary hypotheses. 104

    4-3-3-2-1 The first sub-hypothesis of the research. 104

    4-3-3-2-2 The second sub-hypothesis of the research. 105

    4-3-3-2-3 The third sub-hypothesis of the research. 106

    4-3-3-2-4 The fourth sub-hypothesis of the research. 108

    4-3-3-2-5 The fifth sub-hypothesis of the research. 109

    4-3-3-2-6 The sixth sub-hypothesis of the research. 111

    4-3-3-1-3 The third main research hypothesis. 102

    4-3-3-1-2 The second main research hypothesis 101

    Chapter five: conclusions and suggestions

    1-1 Introduction. 114

    5-2 Statistical findings of the research. 116

    3-5 discussion and conclusion (analysis of findings). 116

    4-5 suggestions. 120

    5-5- Suggestions for future researchers. 121

    5-6- research limitations. 122

    List of sources and sources. 123

     

    Table of Contents

    Title Page Number

    Abstract. 1 Chapter 1: Research overview 1-1- Introduction. 3

    1-2- Statement of the problem. 5

    1-3- Research questions. 7

    1-3-1 main questions. 7

    1-3-2 sub-questions. 8

    1-4- The importance and necessity of research. 8

    1-5- Research objectives. 10

    1-5-1 General objectives. 10

    1-5-2 Specific and practical goals. 10

    1-6- research assumptions. 10

    1-6-1 Main assumptions. 10

    1-6-2 Sub-hypotheses. 11

    1-7- Study limitations of the research. 11

    1-7-1 Spatial territory. 11

    1-7-2 Time realm. 11

    1-8- conceptual model of research. 12

    1-9- operational model of research 14

    1-10- Conceptual and operational definitions of research. 15

    1-10-1 work addiction. 15

    1-10-2 enjoyment of work. 15

    1-10-3 internal desire to work. 15

    1-10-4 Getting involved with work. 15

    1-10-5 occupational health. 16

    1-10-6 Anxiety symptoms and sleep disorder. 16

    1-10-7 social function. 16

    1-10-8 symptoms of depression. 16

    1-10-9 Quality of working life. 16

    1-10-10 Development of human capabilities. 17

    1-10-11 fair and adequate payment. 17

    1-10-12 Safe and healthy working conditions. 17

    1-10-13 The possibility of continuous growth and security. 18

    1-10-14 Belief in the necessity of rule of law. 18

    1-10-15 social coalitions in the work organization. 18

    1-10-16 balanced role of work. 18

    1-10-17 Valid and socially beneficial work. 19

    1-10-18 Soroush platform.        19

    1-11- research variables. 19

    1-12- Thesis structure. 20

    Chapter Two: Review of Literature and Research Background

    2-1- Introduction 22

    2-2- Part One: Work Addiction. 23

    2-2-1 Introduction. 23

    2-2-2 Definition of work addiction. 24

    2-2-3 The importance of work addiction. 26

    2-2-4 types of approach to work addiction. 27

    2-2-5 The difference between workaholics and overworked people.

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