engaged workaholic

engaged workaholic
n.
A person who works compulsively because he or she loves their job.
—engaged workaholism n.
Example Citations:
Though unhappy clock-watchers...may be tempted to call her a workaholic — endangering health, psyche and personal life by being too wedded to work — some researchers think there's nothing at all wrong with her. They think, instead, that she'd aptly be placed in a relatively new category that some call an "engaged workaholic." ...
Engaged workaholics may dodge some or all of those nasty repercussions for one simple reason: They love what they do.
—Kathleen Doheny, " Workaholism: Maybe not such a bad thing: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-workaholics-20120213,0,7464060.story," Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2012
Engaged workaholics were driven by both controlled and autonomous motivation.
That is, engaged workaholics focus on the instrumental value of a job and meeting standards to gain self worth and approval as well as personally value their work. They were also found to spend most time on working.
—Katy Kamkar, " It is possible to be an 'engaged workaholic': http://healthblog.ctv.ca/post/It-is-possible-to-be-a-engaged-workaholic.aspx." CTV MedNews Express, October 21, 2011
Earliest Citation:
A confirmatory factor analysis showed that workaholism and work engagement were two largely independent concepts. Crossing these two concepts yielded four types of workers: workaholic employees, engaged employees, engaged workaholics, and nonworkaholic/nonengaged employees.
—Ilona van Beek, Toon W. Taris, Wilmar B. Schaufeli, " Workaholic and work engaged employees: Dead ringers or worlds apart?: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ocp/16/4/468.html," Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, October 1, 2011
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