Heavy-work investment: Its dimensionality, Invariance across 9 Countries and Levels before and during the COVID-19's Pandemic

Or Shkoler; Edna Rabenu; Muhammad Zahid Iqbal; Filippo Ferrari; Burcin Hatipoglu; Antonio Roazzi; Takuma Kimura; Filiz Tabak; Horia Moasa; Cristinel Vasiliu; Aharon Tziner; Mariana J. Lebron

doi:10.5093/JWOP2021A8

Heavy-work investment: Its dimensionality, Invariance across 9 Countries and Levels before and during the COVID-19's Pandemic

Or Shkoler, Edna Rabenu, Muhammad Zahid Iqbal, Filippo Ferrari, Burcin Hatipoglu, Antonio Roazzi, Takuma Kimura, Filiz Tabak, Horia Moasa, Cristinel Vasiliu, Aharon Tziner, Mariana J. Lebron

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The goals of the current comparative and half-exploratory paper are to: 1) shed light on the properties of the relatively “new” construct, Heavy-Work Investment (HWI) and its two dimensions - Time Commitment and Work Intensity, (2) assess differences across 9 countries in relation to HWI, (3) gauge the effect of demographical parameters on HWI, and (4) investigate the interaction between them and COVID-19's pandemic (i.e., before COVID-19, and during the COVID-19 pandemic). Data of 3,418 employees were collected from 9 different countries: Israel, Romania, Japan, USA, Pakistan, Italy, Turkey, Brazil, and Germany. Among other findings, analyses revealed that HWI construct is stable across countries and that the mean investment at work (in the form of both time and efforts) is higher during the COVID-19's pandemic than before it. Discussion section summarizes the findings of the entire research, and elaborates on limitations and future research suggestions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	67-83
Number of pages	17
Journal	Revista de Psicologia del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones
Volume	37
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5093/JWOP2021A8
State	Published - Aug 2021
Externally published	Yes

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We would like to express our profound gratitude to the anonymous reviewers for their insightful and helpful comments which considerably contributed to improving the quality of this paper. We also wish to express our gratitude to Christopher Gordon Göller who helped with the data collection in Germany.

Keywords

COVID-19
Cultural differences
Demographics
Heavy-work investment
International
Scale

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Shkoler, O., Rabenu, E., Iqbal, M. Z., Ferrari, F., Hatipoglu, B., Roazzi, A., Kimura, T., Tabak, F., Moasa, H., Vasiliu, C., Tziner, A., & Lebron, M. J. (2021). Heavy-work investment: Its dimensionality, Invariance across 9 Countries and Levels before and during the COVID-19's Pandemic. Revista de Psicologia del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones, 37(2), 67-83. https://doi.org/10.5093/JWOP2021A8

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