Happiness @ work
"There's three types of happiness and really happiness is about being able to combine pleasure, passion, and purpose in one's personal life. I think it's helpful and useful to actually think about all three in terms of how you can make customers happier, employees happier, and ultimately, investors happier.“ Zappos CEO's, Delivering Happiness book; Tony Hsieh
Positive Psychology • Authentic Happiness (Seligman, 2003) • There are three distinct kinds of happiness: – the Pleasant Life (pleasures) – the Good Life (engagement – the Meaningful Life.
• The first two are subjective, but the third is at least partly objective and lodges in belonging to and serving what is larger and more worthwhile than the just the self's pleasures and desires. In this way, Authentic Happiness synthesizes all three traditions: The Pleasant Life is about happiness in Hedonism's sense. http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology.html
There’s a clear link between happiness at work and productivity. This only leaves the question of causation: Does being productive make us happy or does being happy make us productive?
Happy People… • 1: Work better with others Happy people are a lot more fun to be around and consequently have better relations at work (team, manager, customer, sales) • 2: Creative when people are feeling good that leads to more flexible, fluent, and original thinking, and there’s actually a carryover, an incubation effect, to the next day. • 3: Fix problems instead of complaining about them. • 4: energy • 5: optimistic • 6: way more motivated • 7: Happy people get sick less often • 8: learn faster • 9: Worry less about making mistakes – and consequently make fewer mistakes and moves on. • 10: Happy people make better decisions
So how do you get to be happy at work? • There are two ways, really: • Get happy in the job you have. There are about a million things you can do to improve your work situation – provided you choose to do something, rather than wait for someone else to come along and do it for you.
• Find a new job where you can be happy. If your current job is not fixable,– move on now! •
From: http://positivesharing.com/2007/03/top-10-reasons-why-happiness-at-work-is-the-ultimate-productivity-booster/
Happiness at work
tips to encourage happiness •
Foster inter-departmental communication and working, giving employees opportunities to
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Encourage face-to-face communication where appropriate, so that colleagues have more worthwhile discussions than email alone allows Encourage a culture where people can express feelings Learn to listen effectively and without judging, this will help you understand your colleagues better Ensure no staff member is working in isolation but feels supported and involved in the business Treat all team members with respect and be aware of cultural sensitivities Provide opportunities for socializing outside of work e.g. family days. This will help employees relate to each other and may help with conflict resolution in the workplace Discourage cliques. Although it is healthy for colleagues to form friendships, cliques can fuel office politics
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Put positive working relationships at the heart of your business culture by including it as a corporate value A good corporate social responsibility plan will give staff the chance to work together on non work-related projects that also benefit the outside community Communicate well and often, and ensure a supportive attitude
Delivering Happiness There's a lot of talk about work life separation or balance and so on, our whole thing is about work life integration. Its just life. And so the ideal would be if you can be the same person at home as you are in the office, and vice versa. And when people actually
feel comfortable being themselves, so much creativity comes out of that.“ Tony Hsieh : research found that the best companies in terms of long-term financial performance are ones that are able to combine profits, passion and purpose.
The Corporate Pursuit of Happiness •
Jennifer Aaker Study: asked her students to develop their own plans for incorporating happiness into a fictional company. She also had them use a custom-built Smartphone app to take at least one photo of a happy moment every day for 30 days, and then rate each moment on a scale of 1 to 10 to quantify their feelings.
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Anticipation of a pleasurable experience feels as good as finishing an onerous task (like a marathon or an exam). A meaningful experience (acquiring a new skill, volunteering, or spending time with family) often makes people happier than moments of pure pleasure. Happiness shifts with age. Younger people feel happiest when they are excited, while older people equate happiness with peacefulness.
Now, consumers want something different from simply buying a product, using it, and throwing it out.
Marketing happiness expands the idea of what it means to buy something. In this way, happiness is another commodity deployed to sell something. "You want people to have an important experience they can talk about on Twitter or Facebook."
The Corporate Pursuit of Happiness • Adobe: The company has started to incorporate these ideas into a project called Adobe Youth Voices, which gives teenagers in poor communities Adobe software and encourages them to tell their stories. • Coke's "happiness machine," a vending machine the company installed in the cafeteria at St. John's University during exams. Rather than dispense cans of soda, the happiness machine surprised students by spitting out a box of pizza or a bouquet of flowers. Secret cameras recorded the students' reactions, and when Coke released the videos online, they went viral, scoring more than 2 million views. •
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How does Careesma pursuits happiness???
How does Careesma pursuits happiness??? At Careesma, we work for a main purpose: “Making people go to work with a smile�. This is our mission. Going to work with a smile is metaphoric for the satisfaction that a good match between an employee and an employer generates.. If we excel in matching the right people with the right jobs, we make a huge difference in the quality of lives and the happiness of people.
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