ABSTRACT
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.
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
