This article investigates and establishes the relationship between organizational demands on the modern manager and the workaholic phenomenon, identifying some implications on the life of the individual. It analyzes the relations of mutual influences within contexts, organizational theories, demands on the manager and the workaholic phenomenon. The focus is on the manager, the person who occupies the command position, makes decisions and has a certain degree of accumulated responsibilities, in a relatively broad configuration of the domestic scene, since the qualitative research was made with eight business managers, from different segments and sectors spread over Brazil.
organizational demands; workaholic phenomenon; person-organization relation