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Happiness@Work : 3 théories divergentes

Les chercheurs se cassent la tête depuis des années à propos du bonheur au travail. Trois théories récentes émergent et divergent.

  • D’après Rosabeth Moss Kanter, gourou du management, professeur à la Harvard Business School, les salariés confrontés à des défis importants seraient de loin les plus heureux.
  • Srikumar Rao, auteur de Happiness at Work (Le bonheur au travail) et autrefois professeur à la Columbia Business School, a un autre point de vue. Il pense que le plus grand obstacle au bonheur dans l’entreprise est notre sentiment d’impuissance.
  • La troisième analyse du bonheur au travail provient du cabinet américain de conseil et de recrutement Leadership IQ. Selon une enquête récente menée par ce cabinet, ce sont les low performers (pas ou peu performants) qui sont les plus heureux au travail.

Qui a raison ? Retrouvez le résumé librement adapté par  Anne Van Der Weide de l’article “3 recente theorieën over geluk op de werkvloer” de Lilian Polderman du journal MT Management Team.

Voir la vidéo « Bien-être au travail » de la société allemande de création de sites internet Jamdo.

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Buying people’s time is no guarantee you’ll get their best efforts!

Did you know that the companies with the least engaged employees had an average operating margin of 10 percent and the companies with the most engaged employees an average operating margin of 27 percent — nearly three times as high? Knowing that why more than two-thirds of employees around the world, a recent Gallup poll found, feel disengaged, dispirited and fatigued at work?

“Invest in and care for the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being of employees, and they’ll perform far better for longer. No amount of money will ever be sufficient to meet all employees’ needs at work“ says Tony Schwartz in his recent published article “Powering Employees With More Than a Paycheck”.

Read the article of Bestseller Author Tony Schwartz “Powering Employees With More Than a Paycheck” and know more about his key ideas

Look at Tony Schwartz in TEDxMidWest “The way we’re working isn’t working”

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What makes you feel good about your work?

In his New York Times bestseller, Great Work, David Sturt asserts that most of the fulfillment we experience comes not from finding that one-in-a-million position, but in making a difference in the job we already have. For him « making a difference » is the key to most employee engagement issues in the world. No matter where you live or who you are, you need to feel you are adding value to something bigger than yourself. If you don’t, a lack of self-worth will quickly lead to depression and disengagement, he says. Furthermore, the behavioral economist Dan Ariely made several experiments and concluded that the basic human need to feel that their work mattered had a massive impact on how engaged they were in their job and the results they delivered.

What’s your opinion? What motivates you to work?

Read the full article written by HR Executive Louis Efron « Do you have to change jobs to find happiness? » and the infographic « Work engaged, Work inspired »

Want to know more? Have a look at the presentation of two eye-opening experiments that reveal our unexpected and nuanced attitudes toward meaning in our work, the TED video with the behavioral economist Dan Ariely « What makes us feel good about our work? »

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Could we learn from the Swiss to be happy@work?

Reports from the OECD and the UN suggest that Switzerland’s citizens regularly rank amongst some of the happiest in the world. So could we all be happier at work if we were a bit more Swiss? A recent article in the Guardian pointed out that according to the OECD world happiness rankings, the average Swiss citizen works 1,632 hours a year, 144 less than the world average. The average wage is $7,000 more than the world average and it seems the first rule of working more Swiss is do less for more. Could this be the lesson we could learn form the Swiss to be happy@work? Nicola Mendelsohn famously became Facebook vice-president for EMEA on a four-day week, but can it work for the rest of us? Is it the Swiss neutrality which makes them cheerful during their working hours or the high connectivity of its citizens?

If you want to find out more, read the article written by Harriet Winter “Happiness at work: what we can learn from the Swiss”

 

 

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Le bonheur au travail comme moteur

Par Frédéric Brébant (trends.levif.be)

A l’occasion de la première Journée internationale du bonheur décrétée par l’ONU ce 20 mars, le tout premier «BE Happiness Day» sera organisé en Belgique à cette date. Objectif ? Convaincre les entreprises que le bonheur sur le lieu de travail peut être aussi un vecteur de développement.

En cette période de morosité économique, la simple notion du bonheur peut-elle rejaillir ou non sur la performance des entreprises ? Pour Laurence Vanhee, «HR Manager de l’année 2012» (photo), et Jean-Paul Erhard, Managing Partner du réseau Peoplesphere, la réponse ne fait aucun doute. A l’occasion de la première Journée internationale du bonheur décrétée par l’ONU à la date du 20 mars, ces deux Belges ont en effet décidé de mettre sur pied le premier «BE Happiness Day».

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