Happiness loves company

Simon Burnett

Chapter 3 in The Happiness Agenda, 2012, pp 80-105 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter concerns the second historical shock that contributed to the formation of the modern cultural circuits of happiness: its twentieth-century assimilation with organizational practice, whereby a widespread humanistic belief prevalent in management thinking from this period is that: being happy and productive at work are necessarily connected. This is central to the circulation of the Happiness Agenda as it facilitates its operation at the meso-organizational level of society, bridging between more abstracted macro-philosophical theory and political policy and micro-personal interpretation and enactments.

Keywords: Human Resource Management; Emotional Intelligence; Scientific Management; Human Relation; Landing Gear (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230348417_4

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