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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Do happier people work harder?









Look around. New research finds there are a lot of unhappy and unmotivated people in the workplace.
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which has been polling more than 1,000 adults every day since 2008, shows that Americans now feel worse about their jobs — and work environments — than ever before. People of all ages, and across income levels, are unhappy with their supervisors, apathetic about their organizations, and detached from what they do.
And there’s no reason to think things will soon improve.
Why are employees so downtrodden? It might have to do with poor employee engagement. The authors of The Progress Principle, Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, write that “employee engagement may seem like a frill… but it can make a big difference in a company’s survival.”
According to an article in The New York Times, Amabile and Kramer collected 12,000 diary entries from 238 professionals in seven different companies. They found one-third of the participants was unhappy, unmotivated, or both.
“Our research shows that inner work life has a profound impact on workers’ creativity, productivity, commitment, and collegiality.”
This means that employees are far more creative on days when they feel happier and perform better when they’re engaged in their work.

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