A study conducted by the UNED in 180 Spanish
entrepreneurs, has shown that those who spend many hours work per week not only
not get better results, but are even worse. And however, entrepreneurs
passionate with their work but that they don't arrive to become obsessed with
it, get more positive results.
According to the Servicio de Información y Noticias
Científicas, data from the study - in
which also participated the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Netherlands) -
confirm that work addiction can cause conflicts with family, partner, worsen
health and well-being and increase labour errors.
The authors of the research differed between
entrepreneurs workaholics and entrepreneurs involved with it. The main
difference is that the second ones work with passion, but are not obsessed,
manage to disconnect and get positive emotions from their work.
However, the workaholics are
never satisfied with any results, can not stop thinking in their work
environment (even in his spare time), devote more hours to your business which
should and do not feel emotions positive with a job well done: when you feel
negative emotions, these in turn affect the growth of the business and his
possible success.
For the authors of the work,
the challenge is to convert work addiction into a positive passion. And this
can be done with a pleasant working environment, in which both managers and
employees can put into practice their skills and be creative without the fear
to be sanctioned for errors.
The study, published in the
Journal of Managerial Psychology, is available in its online edition:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17106511
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