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.
This book helps readers to internalize happiness, form a healthy opinion about this emotion, and detach it from external factors that can only cause temporary discomfort or delight. A group of expert authors considers happiness within three critical realms: internally, interactively, and work-related. Their thoughtful contributions approach happiness from a multiplicity of angles, and present a full spectrum of backgrounds and perspectives to consider, based on a wide range of circumstances, personal and professional.
This companion will be valuable for researchers, students, and coaches, whether they seek input for future theory development, or motivation for performance in personal and professional life.
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PART I: HAPPINESS AT ITS CORE
Chapter 1. Internalizing Happiness: At Work and Anywhere Else
Joan Marques
Chapter 2. Using Signature Strengths to increase Happiness at Work
Nicola S. Schutte and John M. Malouff
Chapter 3. Happiness on Your Own Terms: A Photovoice Method on Happiness Research and Intervention
Sunny Jeong and Orneita Burton
Chapter 4. Being Happy in Spite of Setbacks
Wanda Krause
Chapter 5. Intrinsic Motivation as a Driver of Happiness
Sunita Singh Sengupta
Chapter 6. Making Work a Happy Practice
Thuc-Doan Nguyen
Chapter 7. At the Intersection of Happiness and Contentment at Work
Babar Dharani
PART II: SHARING THE LIGHT OF HAPPINESS AT WORK
Chapter 8. Is There a Place for Happiness at Work?
Dorota Jasielska
Chapter 9. Finding Happiness at Work: Self-love, Self-awareness, Self-efficacy and Self-appreciation
Juanita Coleman-Merritt
Chapter 10. The Interactive Nature of Happiness at Work: What People Say About Work When They Talk About Life
Ivo Ponocny
Chapter 11. Soulful Work for Happy Employees
Debra J. Dean
Chapter 12. The Role of Gratitude and Mindfulness in Creating a Happier and More Productive Workplace
Rhonda Swickert
Chapter 13. Happy, Mindful, and Productive Workers
Cristián Coo, Susana Llorens and Marisa Salanova
Chapter 14. Religion as a Foundation for a Happy Life
Tarshima Bell-Hackett, Sylvia W. Burgess and Karen Martin-Jones
Chapter 15. Happiness at Work: A Christian Religious View
Peter M. Lewa and Susan K. Lewa
Chapter 16. Influence of Religion on Employees' Sense of Happiness
Sarah M. Mutuku, Miriam M. Mutuku-Kioko and Paul S. Kioko
Chapter 17. Happiness in Professional Work Formerly and Nowadays as Perceived by Women Aged 60 or Above. Analysis of Studies in Socio-philosophical Perspective
Agnieszka Smrokowska-Reichmann and Edyta Janus
Chapter 18. Elusive Happiness: Does Spirituality Matter?
Thomas Anyanje Senaji and Victor Senaji Anyanje
PART III: NURTURING HAPPINESS THROUGH WORK
Chapter 19. Behind the Happiness Mask
Lisa Linzbach and Ilona Suojanen
Chapter 20. Nurturing Happiness Through Strengths Use
Maria Christina Meyers, Philippe Dubreuil and Claudia Harzer
Chapter 21. Cook, Click, Share, and Be Happy!: Eudaimonic Self-Presentation of Consumer Cooking Practices in Contemporary Technocultures
Silvia Biraghi, Daniele Dalli and Rossella C. Gambetti
Chapter 22. Aristotle’s Happiness Concept Applied at Work: Some Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence in Australia
Roger John Hilton, Steve Perera and Bruce Carroll
Chapter 23. Workplace Democracy and Emotional Well-being
Elliott Kruse
Chapter 24. Leveraging Social Responsibility for Worker Engagement: From Recruitment to Productivity, Satisfaction, Longevity, and Happiness
Morgan R. Clevenger
Chapter 25. Work and Happiness: An Economic Perspective
Arie Sherman and Tal Shavit
Chapter 26. Happiness and the Arts
Theresa Billiot
Chapter 27. Happiness and Adaptive Psychopathic Traits in the Workplace
Guillaume Durand
Chapter 28. Happiness at Work Under the Toxic Leadership of Corporate Psychopaths
Clive Boddy
Chapter 29. Time Management and Workplace Happiness
Robert S. Fleming
Chapter 30. Achieving Happiness at Work: Insights from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Satinder Dhiman
Chapter 31. Happiness at the Intersection of Acceptance and Ambition
Joan Marques
Biography
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.
