The Routledge Companion to Happiness at Work

ISBN-13: 9780367266554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 370 str.

Joan Marques

Opis

An unprecedented and important reference work, this research companion covers a range of aspects of happiness, an aim everyone aspires to achieve, yet can be easily overlooked in today’s demanding and multi-challenged world, or confused with a plethora of quantifiable or career goals.

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List of Contributors  List of Figures  List of Tables  PART I: HAPPINESS AT ITS CORE  1. Internalizing Happiness: At Work and Anywhere Else  2. Using Signature Strengths to increase Happiness at Work  3. Happiness on Your Own Terms: A Photovoice Method on Happiness Research and Intervention  4. Being Happy in Spite of Setbacks  5. Intrinsic Motivation as a Driver of Happiness  6. Making Work a Happy Practice  7. At the Intersection of Happiness and Contentment at Work  PART II: SHARING THE LIGHT OF HAPPINESS AT WORK  8. Is There a Place for Happiness at Work?  9. Finding Happiness at Work: Self-love, Self-awareness, Self-efficacy and Self-appreciation  10. The Interactive Nature of Happiness at Work: What People Say About Work When They Talk About Life  11. Soulful Work for Happy Employees  12. The Role of Gratitude and Mindfulness in Creating a Happier and More Productive Workplace  13. Happy, Mindful, and Productive Workers  14. Religion as a Foundation for a Happy Life  15. Happiness at Work: A Christian Religious View  16. Influence of Religion on Employees' Sense of Happiness  17. Happiness in Professional Work Formerly and Nowadays as Perceived by Women Aged 60 or Above. Analysis of Studies in Socio-philosophical Perspective  18. Elusive Happiness: Does Spirituality Matter?  PART III: NURTURING HAPPINESS THROUGH WORK  19. Behind the Happiness Mask  20. Nurturing Happiness Through Strengths Use  21. Cook, Click, Share, and Be Happy!: Eudaimonic Self-Presentation of Consumer Cooking Practices in Contemporary Technocultures  22. Aristotle’s Happiness Concept Applied at Work: Some Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence in Australia  23. Workplace Democracy and Emotional Well-being  24. Leveraging Social Responsibility for Worker Engagement: From Recruitment to Productivity, Satisfaction, Longevity, and Happiness  25. Work and Happiness: An Economic Perspective  26. Happiness and the Arts  27. Happiness and Adaptive Psychopathic Traits in the Workplace  28. Happiness at Work Under the Toxic Leadership of Corporate Psychopaths  29. Time Management and Workplace Happiness  30. Achieving Happiness at Work: Insights from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle  31. Happiness at the Intersection of Acceptance and Ambition

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Joan Marques is Professor of Management and Dean of the School of Business, Woodbury University, USA. Her research focuses on workplace spirituality, ethics, and leadership. She has published extensively, including the books Business and Buddhism, Leadership, and Ethical Leadership, all published by Routledge.