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Happiness at Work
Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for Success
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Artikel-Nr:
9780470749463
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.04.2010
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Jessica Pryce-Jones
Gewicht:
374 g
Format:
229x152x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jessica Pryce-Jones is CEO and founder of the Oxford-based consultancy iOpener, which enables people to improve their performance and organizations to develop sustainably. A regular speaker and media commentator, she featured in the BBC series Making Slough Happy and CNN's special on happiness at work. Pryce-Jones teaches and coaches leaders at London Business School, Chicago Booth, Saïd Business School in Oxford, and Judge Business School in Cambridge. Clients include multinationals in banking, IT, health, publishing, and engineering as well as the public and not-for-profit sectors.
Sharing the results of her four-year research journey in simple, jargon-free language, Pryce-Jones exposes the secrets of being happy at work.
* Focuses on what happiness really means in a work context and why it matters to individuals and organisations in both human and financial terms
* Equips readers with the information, knowledge and skills to make the most of the nearly 100,000 hours that they'll spend at work over a lifetime
* Demystifies psychological research through a fascinating array of anecdotes, case studies, and interviews from people in the trenches of the working world, including business world-leaders, politicians, particle physicists, and philosophers, sheep farmers, waitresses, journalists, teachers, and lawyers, to name just a few
* Focuses on what happiness really means in a work context and why it matters to individuals and organisations in both human and financial terms
* Equips readers with the information, knowledge and skills to make the most of the nearly 100,000 hours that they'll spend at work over a lifetime
* Demystifies psychological research through a fascinating array of anecdotes, case studies, and interviews from people in the trenches of the working world, including business world-leaders, politicians, particle physicists, and philosophers, sheep farmers, waitresses, journalists, teachers, and lawyers, to name just a few
Prologue.
Acknowledgments.
1 Why Happiness at Work? Why Now?
2 The Research Journey.
3 Contribution from the Inside-Out.
4 Contribution from the Outside-In.
5 Conviction.
6 Culture.
7 Commitment.
8 Confidence.
9 Pride, Trust, and Recognition.
10 Achieving Your Potential.
Happiness at Work: A Conclusion.
What Next?
References.
Dramatis Personae.
Index.
Acknowledgments.
1 Why Happiness at Work? Why Now?
2 The Research Journey.
3 Contribution from the Inside-Out.
4 Contribution from the Outside-In.
5 Conviction.
6 Culture.
7 Commitment.
8 Confidence.
9 Pride, Trust, and Recognition.
10 Achieving Your Potential.
Happiness at Work: A Conclusion.
What Next?
References.
Dramatis Personae.
Index.
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