Organisation Behaviour: A Literature Review of Workplace Addictions

This literature review explores the impact of addictions on organisation behaviour, drawing upon three key articles. The first article investigates the personality profiles associated with substance and behavioural addictions, highlighting inconsistencies across different addiction types and their potential impact on workplace safety and decision-making. The second article focuses on nicotine addiction, particularly vaping, as a workplace disability, examining the legal debates surrounding smoking cessation and the adverse effects of nicotine withdrawal. The third article delves into employers' perceptions and attitudes towards psychological health and safety standards in the workplace, emphasizing the need for strategies to enhance employee well-being and manage addiction-related conflicts. The review concludes by underscoring the importance of addressing addiction within organisations through preventive measures, intervention techniques, and the establishment of supportive treatment centers, while also acknowledging the limitations and relevance of each source in providing a comprehensive understanding of workplace addictions.

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ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR (ADDICTIONS)
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Article 1
Zilberman N, Yadid G, Efrati Y, Neumark Y, Rassovsky Y. Personality profiles of substance
and behavioural addictions. Addictive behaviours. 2018 Jul 1;82:174-81.
Summary of the source
The main objective of the source is to explore substance associated and behavioural
addictions that are highly prevalent in a major public organisation. In this context, the
diversity across addictions kinds shows that there are different inconsistencies that stem out
from various personalities lying under each type of addictions. The present source compares
personality characterises at several levels of addictions, denoting both substances such as
drugs and alcohol and its behavioural sub-kinds. The main reason for studying this source is
that accidents are likely to occur within workplaces when staffs are under the high influence
of drug or alcohol addictions. Moreover, drinking within the workplace may also result in
aggravated assault and physical battery charges that may be harmful.
Strengths and Weakness
One of the most important strengths of the article is that unlike other articles on the
issue about the workplace, the article starts with small illustrations about the types of
addictions that may affect an individual. The article focuses on the diversified behavioural
addictions that take place within the community and workplaces. The article defines
addictions and behaviour through non-substance associated behavioural addictions that are
inclusive of internet addictions, pathological gambling, drugs and alcohol addiction (1). It
explains that addictions are the potential foundation of psychotic behaviour associated with
addictions that may significantly influence upon decision making as well as motivations of
the employees within the workplace. A most noteworthy weakness of the article is that the

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study emphasises mostly on the results of behavioural addictions in the healthcare business
and provides a generalised study. The study has limited significant generalisation across
various types of addictions in different workplaces.
Conclusion
The author concludes the study by suggesting that there may be different types of
addictions that may have a certain type of behavioural outcome. The author suggests that the
findings from the article may help in the establishment of more effective preventions of the
addictions issue. In this context, preventive strategies could be helpful in recognising the risk
based on the personality addictions (2). The study also implies strategies for interventions and
proper treatments for addictions amongst employees.
In this context, the author concludes the article by restating the needs for preparation
for treatments and train employees that helps to prevent the addictions. Moreover, the
suggestions are made on the intervention techniques and setting up of treatments centres
within workplaces to address the issues.
The relevance of the source
The source is not completely valuable and relevant in the existing study, as it does not
mention much about addictive behaviour taking place in generalised workplaces other than
clinical workplaces. Other than highlighting the consequences of the addictive behaviour in
details and its impact on the workplaces it goes on determining the various types of addictive
behaviour and diversified addiction. In this, article the author, the moves further to deliver
guidelines on the way to intervene the issues and to prevent the addictive behaviour in the
organisations.
Author background

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The article has multiple authors in which the first author is Noam Zilberman who is
the scholar of Department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University, in Israel, Gal Yadid who is
the professor in faculty in the Department of Life sciences in the same university.
Personal conclusion on the source
The article source has successfully outlined the most important components of
addiction and behaviour amongst the employees of the workplace in the response of addictive
diversity in business. However, the most noteworthy part of the study is that it creates
awareness and commercial knowledge about addictions behaviour throughout the article.
Second Article
Allen MM. Everybody's Vaping for the Weekend: Nicotine Addiction as a Workplace
Disability. U. Cin. L. Rev. 2014; 83:1393.
Summary of the source
The article emphasises on the changing patterns and extensive use of tobacco and
health-related issues associated with the use of tobacco. A study in this context represented
that also 288 electronic cigarette brands are available for sale to the America community in
the year 2012-2014. Based on this the article focuses on the conflict taking place amongst the
employees who consume electronic tobacco as an addiction.
Strengths and Weakness
The most important strength of the study is that it begins with transitioning legal
de4bate for preventing the existing smokers for the addiction of nicotine specifically for those
who are struggling to quit smoking (3). The weakness is that the study focuses more on

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nicotine addiction and anti-smoking laws other than workplace impact on the employees
resulting from the addiction.
Conclusion
The author concludes the article with an argument that mental and physical problems
are highly related to the addiction of nicotine taking place during the period of withdrawal.
The author described addiction as a complex social as well as the biological phenomenon that
are destructive in nature. In this context, it is the employers of organisation and policymakers
needs to help the employees and individual to overcome the growing addictions other than
penalising them.
The relevance of the source
The source is relevant to some extent as it shows the different patterns of tobacco
consumptions that have evolved over the period of last five years and laws regulating the use
of tobacco in workplaces (4). The study also highlights the adverse effects of the smoking
cigarette as a part of addiction at the workplace and in public areas as well. Moreover, the
study presents the change in workplace regulation on smoking that has been drastically
growing.
Author background
The author Matthew M. Allen is the legal and psychological scholar of the University
Of Cincinnati College Of Law.
Personal conclusion on the source
From a personal point of view, it can be said that the study has successfully focused
on the effects of tobacco addiction amongst the employees and its impact on workplace

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culture. However, the most intimating part of the study is that it focuses on the legal policies
associated with the prevention of addiction within the workplace.
Third article
Kunyk D, Craig-Broadwith M, Morris H, Diaz R, Reisdorfer E, Wang J. Employers’
perceptions and attitudes toward the Canadian national standard on psychological health and
safety in the workplace: A qualitative study. International journal of law and psychiatry. 2016
Jan 1;44:41-7.
Summary of the source
The main objective of the study was to explore the qualitative explanatory study to
unveil the organisational receptivity in response to addictions within the workplace to
develop a standard for psychological and safety within the workplace. In this context, the
study explains the addiction experience and its influence on the practice associated decision-
making (7).
Strengths and Weakness
The strength of the study is that it shows that the participants describe their personal
history of addiction and discusses their influence of addictions on others life as well as
decision-making. It also explained personal experience with a specific treatment that could be
helpful in managing organisational conflicts (5).
Conclusion
The author concludes the study by confirming and illustrating the crucial role that
psychological health and safety plays within the workplace. The standards associated with
addictions are reasons across various organisations to fit with their developed values.

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Therefore, the study concluded by suggesting the implementing strategies for enhancing the
psychological health and safety within the workplace.
The relevance of the source
The study is relevant as it describes the need for proper health and safety standards
within the workplace by reducing the addictions amongst employees. Moreover, it focuses on
improving the psychological health of the employees that are affecting employees in
workplaces (7).
Author background
Diane Kunyk is the faculty of Nursing and John Dossier health and centre of ethics in
the University of Alberta in Canada. Morgan Craig is the faculty members of the Canadian
mental Health centre
Personal conclusion on the source
Personally, it is concluded that the study has successfully outlined the impact of poor
addictions habit amongst employees and its impact on mental health while working within
workplaces. However, the most attractive part of the study is that it focuses on the health
prevention standards associated with the prevention of addiction within the workplace.

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