Week 3-NOC-Jul24-Sustainable Happiness
Week 3-NOC-Jul24-Sustainable Happiness
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Philosophers who write about “happiness”!!!!
⮚1. A state of mind: "psychological sense”(the study of certain mental
states)
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What is this state of mind we call happiness?
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Ans. It includes life satisfaction, pleasure, or a positive emotional
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condition.
How valuable is this mental state?
How happiness can be valuable to our life?
⮚2. A life that goes well for the person leading it: a prudential value—
or, more commonly, well-being, welfare, utility or flourishing.
“Happiness” is concerned with- what benefits a person, is good for her,
makes her better off, serves her interests, or is desirable for her for her
sake.
Why is happiness important at
work?
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Happy employees are more productive than
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unhappy ones
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… create happy customers
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… have less work-life stress
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… are more creative, innovative
… are more purposeful & engaged
Some of your best hours on earth are spent at
the workplace
⮚ Happiness is a state of fully satisfied consciousness; a state of mind
that depends on how it is interpreted.
✔ It is not a temporary affair of a moment but should be sustainable
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to be true and authentic.
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✔ According to the relative index of happiness, work is one of the
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most important factors that influence happiness.
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✔ Happiness can be compatible to the extent that a productive
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activity can be made a creative activity, fruitful activity and a
source of satisfaction of multiple needs.
⮚ Abraham Maslow’s ‘Need Hierarchy Theory’ justifies this; for most
of us our workplaces are the irreplaceable source of income, social
inclusion and platforms for socialization and networking.
✔ Through this not only we nurture our career goals but strive to
become global citizens.
What makes you feel happy
at work…?
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✔ Which jobs are happier?
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Does money buy happiness?
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What is so hard to be self-employed?
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✔ Does having no job make you depressed?
✔ Is job satisfaction same as happiness?
✔ Do happier people work harder?
✔ Can job satisfaction hide low levels of
engagements?
❖Positive Work culture & HR wellbeing
▪ Work culture encompasses the values, beliefs and attitudes that
guide an organization.
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▪ It sets expectations for how employees should behave and
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interact with one another as they perform their day-to-day
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responsibilities and contribute to the company’s overall mission.
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❖ Why Is Work Culture Important?
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▪ Work culture can have a profound impact on several significant
aspects of the employee experience, like individual and team
morale, workplace engagement and job satisfaction.
▪ Practices that negatively impact workplace culture and promote
a toxic team dynamic can steer an organization in the opposite
direction, making it difficult to hire and retain good employees.
▪ Work culture not only guides employees in the workplace,
but it also guides customers on whether they want to do
business with you.
▪ Work culture will naturally form within every organization
and sometimes to the detriment of the business.
⮚Elements of Workplace Culture
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There are several factors that go into developing work culture.
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▪ People who feel unfulfilled at work are less likely to put
effort into contributing toward company success or to
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recommend their current employer to others.
▪ People report experiencing workplace culture most strongly
through their employers’ approach to performance,
recognition and celebrations and company mission and
values;
▪ “flexible,” “inclusive,” “friendly,” “collaborative” and “fun”
to characterize “ideal workplace cultures.”
If the workplace has “a culture of open and transparent
communication,” employees feel physically safe on the job, report trust
in their supervisor and cite culture as a reason they love their job.
⮚How to Create a Positive Work Culture
✔A healthy culture fosters engagement, boosts productivity, and
attracts top talent.
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✔it’s a deeper concept that encompasses values, behaviors, and
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attitudes shared by your employees.
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✔Dedicate as much time as necessary to ensure everyone is aligned, and
include leadership, long-term employees and HR representatives so all
significant parties can weigh in.
✔Should have a concise list of values that accurately reflect your current
company culture and long-term goals.
✔Consider everything from the physical layout of the office to how
frequently employees interact with their colleagues, managers and team
members .
✔ Leaders who are working to improve workplace culture
need to be ready to follow-through on investing in the
initiatives that matter most.
✔It requires leaders to make effort for consistent
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communication, accountability and transparency.
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✔Set Clear Departmental Goals
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✔Promote the Organization’s Goals
✔Promote Diversity and Inclusivity
✔Allow for Lightheartedness
✔Prioritize Respect
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✔Establish a Strict Zero Tolerance Policy
✔Create an Employee Recognition Program
✔Accept and Utilize Your Employee’s Feedback
✔Be Flexible & Transparent
✔Plan Celebrating Success Parties & Social Outings
✔ A positive culture not only boosts employee morale and engagement
but also plays a crucial role in attracting and retaining top talent.
✔ Human Resources (HR) professionals play a pivotal role in shaping
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and nurturing a positive organizational culture.
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✔ They serve as the catalysts for change and act as the driving force
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behind implementing strategies and initiatives that foster a
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supportive, inclusive, and engaging work environment.
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✔ Clear Vision and Values-A clear vision and values provide a guiding
compass for decision-making, enabling employees to understand the
organization's direction and how their individual efforts contribute to
the bigger picture.
✔ By aligning individual goals with the company's broader objectives,
HR can inspire employees to contribute their best and foster a sense
of purpose.
✔ Transparent communication promotes trust and fosters a culture of
transparency and honesty.
✔ HR plays a vital role in establishing effective channels of
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communication, ensuring that employees have access to
information, and encouraging an environment where feedback and
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suggestions are valued.
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✔ Employee Empowerment: HR can support employee empowerment
by providing ongoing training and development opportunities that
align with both individual and organizational goals.
✔ Empowered employees feel valued and have a sense of ownership
over their work, leading to increased job satisfaction and
motivation.
✔ Recognition and Reward Systems: HR can establish recognition and
reward systems that acknowledge outstanding performance, foster
a sense of belonging, and motivate employees to excel.
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options, and employee wellness programs.
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⮚ HR can advocate for work-life balance by setting guidelines that
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encourage employees to disconnect after work hours and promote
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the use of vacation days for rejuvenation.
⮚ HR can partner with wellness experts to design and implement
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wellness programs tailored to employees' like yoga classes,
mindfulness workshops, or mental health resources.
⮚ Diversity and Inclusion : HR professionals can lead efforts to create
a diverse workforce by implementing inclusive hiring practices and
promoting an environment that embraces different perspectives
and backgrounds.
⮚ HR can collaborate with hiring managers to ensure job postings are
inclusive, and recruitment processes prioritize diversity and equal
opportunity.
⮚ Strategies for building wellbeing at workplace :
✔Committed CEO and aligned executive team-For wellbeing to work
leaders need to create a supportive environment that encourages
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individuals to talk about their mental health and wellbeing, take up
opportunities to participate in wellbeing programs during work hours, and
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openly encourage wellbeing practices with their teams.
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✔Personalized wellbeing: HR has a vital role in bringing your unique
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insights about the demographic and diverse makeup of your workforce and
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their different needs to the executive discussion on wellbeing strategy.
✔Support your supporters: The responsibility for ensuring a safe,
supportive, and healthy work environment sits with your leaders and
people managers.
✔HR as trusted advisor can empathize with and encourage leaders (and
yourself!) to prioritize their own wellbeing and daily self-care to manage
their energy.
✔You can’t help others until you first help yourself.
✔Facilitate belonging and connection: At work a sense of
belonging, feeling valued and having supportive social
relationships is critical to wellbeing.
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✔HR has a key role with redefining hybrid work strategies and
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practices to boost the way organizations connect from the
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onboarding experience of remote employees through to helping
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leaders create team office days that focus on connection, fun,
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collaboration, and relationship building.
✔Wellbeing is fundamental to healthy, high performance:
Wellbeing is necessary for our health, energy, connection,
creativity, relationships, performance, and this list goes on.
✔HR has an exciting and transformational role to play in creating
a high performing culture that has wellbeing as the foundation.
❖Positive Cognitive & Emotional states & processes in the Workplace
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❖Positive Emotions at Work
✔ Companies that build the optimum ratio of cognitive and
emotional culture for their employees can succeed in
generating the best worker performance with the lowest
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turnover.
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✔ Research shows that the more positive emotions people
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experience, the more successful they are.
✔ Positive employees make better decisions, are more
interpersonal skills.
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creative, more productive, more resilient and have better
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their work form a great example to others
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✔ Happiness in the workplace is directly correlational to increased
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productivity and better group performance at work
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✔ Happiness Builds Positivity-A professional who has strong positive
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feelings about his job will undoubtedly be more enthusiastic and
focus on building himself.
✔ Happiness Reduces Stress- Finding happiness in work helps in
building strong interpersonal relationships at work and encourage
people to work together
✔ Happiness at Work means a Healthy Life
✔ Happiness at Work Increases Likeability-In a happy state of mind,
people are more innovative and inspired;
▪ In order to capitalize on positive emotions at work and build high-quality
interpersonal relationships and psychological safety, it is important that
coworkers respond to each other’s positive emotions in a constructive and
validating way.
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consequence of creative thought, establishing an affect-creativity
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cycle.
✔ Positive emotions expand the momentary scopes of attention and
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cognition and thereby widen the array of thoughts and actions that
come to mind.
✔ Positive emotions further build people’s enduring psychological,
intellectual, and social resources;
✔ Employees and organizations that have a reserve of positive
emotions can draw on them to increase resilience in times of crisis or
stress;
✔ People who report greater positive affect in general are better at
social interactions and have interactions that are of a higher quality .
⮚ Psychological Safety
✔ Positive interpersonal responding concerns psychological safety –
“people’s perceptions of the consequences of taking interpersonal
risks in a particular context such as a workplace” ;
✔ Psychological safety among employees correlates with team
learning.
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✔ The interpersonal process of responding to the positive emotional
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experiences of others is an important factor influencing
psychological safety.
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✔ Psychological safety positively affects individuals’ willingness to
“employ or express themselves physically, cognitively, and
emotionally during role performance” and prevents a move to
disengage or “withdraw and defend their personal selves.”
✔ A person’s positive response to their coworker’s positive emotional
experience can present an important factor reducing such fear and
instead help build psychological safety, expressed as an increased
willingness to share positive emotions.
⮚ High-Quality Connections
▪ This is a life-giving force in the relational fabric of organizational life
(Dutton, 2003) as they positively affect collaboration, relationship
quality, and trust among colleagues ;
▪ These are short-term, dyadic interactions where both the subjective
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experience of the connected individuals and their relationships are
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experienced as positive; can positively affect employee well-being
and interpersonal dynamics, even between unfamiliar colleagues,
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may present a valuable resource for current fast-paced collaboration-
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dependent work life.
⮚ Compassion at Work
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❖ Positive Emotions, Pro-Social behavior & Mental health wellbeing
✔ Positive emotions, behaviors, and mental states can be defined as
feelings that are pleasant, uplifting, and contribute to overall well-
being.
✔ Examples of positive emotions include joy, gratitude, hope, love,
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and amusement.
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✔ Experiencing positive emotions at Work can have numerous
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benefits for individuals, such as-
✔overall well-being and life satisfaction,
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✔can promote social connections and improve relationship
satisfaction,
✔can enhance cognitive flexibility and promote creative thinking,
✔better physical & mental health outcomes,
✔feeling positive empathy, sharing and enjoying the positive
emotions of others
❖ Emotional intelligence at Work
✔Refers to the ability to identify, understand, and regulate one’s
own emotions, as well as the emotions of others.
✔Individuals with high emotional intelligence tend to experience
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greater happiness and life satisfaction, have more positive
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relationships with others, and are better able to cope with stress
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and adversity.
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✔Key components of emotional intelligence
relationships.
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Self-awareness: The ability to recognize and understand one’s own
emotions, as well as how they impact thoughts, behaviors, and
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resolve conflicts, and build positive relationships with others
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✔ Resilience is a key concept that refers to an individual’s ability to
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adapt and cope with stress, adversity, and challenging life events.
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✔ Resilience is seen as an important factor in promoting mental and
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physical health, as well as overall well-being at workplace.
✔Key factors that contribute to resilience
✔ Positive emotions: Experiencing positive emotions, such as joy,
gratitude, and hope, can help individuals cope with stress and
adversity.
✔ Social support: Having strong relationships with friends, family, and
community members can provide social support and help
individuals cope with difficult life events.
⮚ Optimism: Maintaining a positive outlook and belief in one’s
ability to cope with challenges can promote resilience.
⮚ Cognitive flexibility: The ability to think flexibly and adaptively
can help individuals reframe negative experiences and find
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solutions to challenges.
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⮚ ‘Happiness at Work’ focuses on understanding and promoting
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positive emotions, behaviors, and mental states, such as
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happiness, resilience, gratitude, and optimism.
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⮚ Experiencing positive emotions can have numerous benefits for
individuals, both at home and workplace, such as –
⮚Improved well-being: Positive emotions can contribute to overall
well-being and life satisfaction.
⮚Enhanced resilience: Positive emotions can help individuals cope
with stress and adversity, and can contribute to greater resilience.
⮚Better relationships: Experiencing positive emotions can
promote social connections and improve relationship satisfaction.
⮚Increased creativity: Positive emotions can enhance cognitive
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flexibility and promote creative thinking.
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⮚Interventions, such as mindfulness meditation and emotion
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regulation training, are designed to enhance emotional
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intelligence and promote well-being.
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⮚By developing emotional intelligence skills, individuals can
improve their relationships with others, better manage stress and
adversity, and experience greater happiness and life satisfaction.
⮚Positive emotions are more than momentary good feelings; they
endorse positive work attitude, offer us new ways of thinking,
improved problem-solving, boosted creativity, and increased
wellbeing.
❖Continuous Professional development
⮚Professional development is “the continuous process of self-
awareness, application, and reflection on how to best apply your
strengths and skills to the world of work”,
⮚It’s gaining new skills through continuing education and career
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training after entering the workforce.
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⮚Employees who show initiative in independent learning can
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signal to employers that you are open to new experiences and are
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enthusiastic about continuing to grow.
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⮚Employers who encourage their employees to seek out
professional development opportunities are in turn encouraging
higher productivity and job satisfaction.
⮚Helps Employees Stay Up to Date With Industry Trends to Keep
Skills Sharp
⮚Can provide many opportunities for networking; Workshops,
conferences, classes, and webinars are all spaces in which
professionals can meet new people within their industry and
make new connections.
⮚Professional development goals are short- and long-term
benchmarks that encourage career growth, increase productivity,
and support your personal and professional interests.
⮚Examples of Professional Development Goals
Developing new skills
Improving communication
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Becoming a specialist
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Taking on a leadership role
Earning a raise or promotion
⮚WAYS TO ACHIEVE YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Take Initiative
Manage what you can take on
Align your actions with organizational goals
✔ Build a Strong Professional Network
✔ Identifying new career opportunities
✔ Better understanding your organization or industry
✔ Fostering collaboration
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✔ Ask for Feedback
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Reassess Your Time Commitments
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Practice effective time management skills
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Learn from Other Departments
✔ Further enhance Your Education & recent job skills
✔ Regularly Review Your Progress through SWOT analysis
✔ Develop Core domain skills
✔ Developing Professional/Skills- i.e. People skills, Leadership skills,
Public speaking , Conflict & Stress management, life-long learning
etc.
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services, medical personnel on the workplace, recreation
✔ Consume media in your field
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rooms (billiards, baby foots, video games…), enjoy
✔ Find other ways to deepen job satisfaction massages and so on; the reason why Google is placed
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number 1 of the 100 best companies to work for in 2012
✔ Take a relevant course
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by the magazine “Fortune”.
✔ Find a mentor
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❖Interplay of Sustainability & Happiness at Work
“By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills
needed to promote sustainable development, including, among
others, through education for sustainable development and
sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a
culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation
of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable
development.” (United Nations 2015, p.17)
⮚ Sustainability competences are characterized by
competences “that enable the forward looking and
autonomous co-creation of sustainable development”.
⮚Education for Sustainable Development ( ESD ,SDG 4.7)
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thus prioritizes the following eight sustainability
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competences (Rieckmann, 2018a; UNESCO, 2017; Brundiers
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et al., 2021):
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⮚Systems thinking competence: the ability to recognize and
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understand relationships, to analyze complex systems, to
understand how systems are embedded within different
fields and on different scales and to deal with uncertainty;
⮚Anticipatory competence: the ability to understand and
evaluate multiple futures – possible, probable and
desirable, to create one’s own visions for the future, to
apply the precautionary principle, to assess the
consequences of actions and to deal with risks and changes;
⮚Normative competence: the ability to understand and
reflect on the norms and values that underlie one’s actions
and to negotiate sustainability values, principles, goals, and
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targets – in the context of conflicts of interests and trade-
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offs, uncertain knowledge and contradictions;
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⮚Strategic competence: the ability to collectively develop
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and implement innovative actions that further
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sustainability at the local level and further afield;
⮚ Collaboration competence: the ability to learn from
others, to understand and respect the needs, perspectives
and actions of others (empathy), to understand, relate to
and be sensitive to others (empathic leadership), to deal
with conflicts in groups and to facilitate collaborative and
participatory problem solving;
⮚ Critical thinking competence: the ability to question norms,
practices and opinions, to reflect on own one’s values,
perceptions and actions and to take a position in the
sustainability discourse;
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⮚Self-awareness competence: the ability to reflect on one’s
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own role in the local community and (global) society, to
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continually evaluate one’s actions and prompt further action,
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and to deal with one’s feelings and desires;
⮚ Integrated problem-solving competence: the overarching
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ability to apply different problem-solving frameworks to
complex sustainability problems and develop viable, inclusive
and equitable solutions that promote sustainable development –
integrating the above competences.
⮚However, ESD is not limited to the development of
competences; as transformative education, it also aims at the
"transformation of the individual 'self to world relationship' in
the context of a global perspective"
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▪ Integrating Core Sustainability Meta-Competencies and SDGs Across
the Curriculum and Professional Development
▪ An effective sustainability curriculum is deliberately constructed
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with the aim to graduate students with the capacities to be
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effective systemic change agents.
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▪ The key framework and world view to be built upon the ethic of
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care for self, others, environment/nature, and knowledge.
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▪ The key elements of effective curriculum design to be
“Sustainability Meta-Competencies” (SCs), United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and case studies integrated
with socio-scientific inquiry (SSI) pedagogies.
▪ The articulation of the design of professional development
workshops to be based on the following theoretical approach:
✔ Ethic of Care
✔ Domain-Based Theory of Moral Development
✔ Sustainability Learning Core Meta-Competencies
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✔ Professional Development: Faculty and Staff
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✔ Sustainability Across the Curriculum
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Eco-literacy Staff Development
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Sustainability Learning Competencies
System and Temporal Thinking
Inter- and Intrapersonal Literacy
✔ Ethical Literacy
✔ Creativity/Imagination Competency
✔ Meta-Cognition, Awareness, and Assessment
❑Measuring Happiness at Work:
1. Job satisfaction
2. Organizational commitment
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3. Job involvement
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4. Engagement
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5. Thriving and vigour
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6. Flow and intrinsic motivation
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7. Affect at work
⮚ Causes of happiness in general
1. Environmental contributors to
happiness
2. Personal contributors to happiness
3. Person by situation interactions
4. Becoming happier
❖Employer Contribution: Making a Happy Workplace:
▪ Training and Development
▪ Compensations and Rewards
▪ Skill Recognition
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▪ Superior-Subordinate Relationship
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▪ Career Advancement Opportunities
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Components: Both Individual and
Organizational:
▪ Job Flexibility
▪ Work Environment
▪ Work-Life Balance
▪ Working Hours
▪ Organizational Culture
❑Workplace Happiness Matrix- (Source: Rituparna Roy,
Juthika Konwar, 2020)
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⮚ Quadrant 1: Optimistic - High employee happiness at the
workplace + Low employer contribution to increase
workplace happiness
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⮚ Quadrant 2: Grinning- High employee happiness at the
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workplace +High employer contribution to increase
workplace happiness
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⮚ Quadrant 3: Frowning- Low employee happiness at the
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workplace + Low employer contribution to increase
workplace happiness
⮚ Quadrant 4: Neutral- Low employee happiness at the
workplace + High employer contribution to increase
workplace happiness
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⮚Countries having the best and the worst work-life balance-
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News Update
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Pl. go through these L. materials-
https://www.peoplematters.in/article/diversity/leveraging-diversity-at-workplace-15518
https://hr.nih.gov/working-nih/competencies/competencies-dictionary/leveraging-diversity
https://blog.smarp.com/diversity-and-inclusion-best-practices-focus-on-in-2020
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https://www.achievers.com/blog/diversity-and-inclusion/
https://positivepsychology.com/happiness-at-work/
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https://www.businessinsider.in/slideshows/miscellaneous/13-ways-you-can-be-happier-at-
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work-according-to-career-experts/slidelist/66926626.cms#slideid=66926635
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https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/jobs-and-careers/story/tips-to-be-happy-at-work-
985234-2017-06-28
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https://www.india.com/lifestyle/5-reasons-why-happiness-at-workplace-is-important-4186019/
https://www.rediff.com/getahead/report/career-is-the-9-to-5-shift-a-joke/20161124.htm
https://happier.in/how-to-cultivate-happiness-at-work/
https://www.deccanherald.com/supplements/dh-education/happiness-at-workplace-
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Ted Talks:
https://www.ted.com/talks/zack_friedman_the_secrets_to_happiness_at_work
https://www.ted.com/talks/ross_reekie_can_you_find_happiness_at_work
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