Pracoholizm w ujęciu ekonomii behawioralnej i tradycyjnej

The paper presents arguments in favour not only of the possibility but also necessity of the exploration of workaholism by economists. On the one hand, effective human capital management proves that workaholism has common grounds with such fields of interest of psychological economics (the faculty of behavioural economics) as: irrational behaviour, well-being and wealth, economic socialization, social responsibility of business. On the other hand it proves that workaholism is closely connected to the effective management of human capital (on both the microeconomic and macroeconomic levels) due to its: influence on the quality and value of the capital as well as due to the possibility of reducing this influence, connecting it with new forms of employment and more flexible hours as well as the so-called time compression - and the relations with functions ascribed to time off work.