The ‘Happiness at Work Monitor’ gives you up-to-date insight into the state of ‘happiness’ in the workplace. This allows you to make targeted improvements. At the same time, you can also see the results for employees.
Happiness at work is a hype and scientifically extremely risky! The experience of happiness is strongly determined by a person's context, such as their (work) environment, culture and previous experiences. Does that make ‘happiness at work’ a hopeless mission for HR? Does that mean there is no point in working on happiness? There certainly is!
Besides providing good employment terms and a pleasant working environment, you can work on removing barriers to happiness at work. From ‘sitting in traffic for the boss’ to unequal treatment or a lack of clarity about roles, responsibilities or collaboration. It all depends on where an organisation's challenges lie.
But what about measurability? And what is the ROI (Return Of Investment) for all those organisations that are now investing heavily in happiness at work? To get a handle on that, you first need to know what happiness is and make it measurable.
Perma model
GrowPromoter likes to work with scientific findings and models and developed the ‘Happiness at Work Monitor’ based on the Perma model (from 2011). According to this model, happiness at work consists of:
- Positive emotions at work
- High engagement in work
- Maintaining good relationships at work
- Experiencing meaning in work
- Learning and achieving at work
The set of questions related to these aspects has been developed to make things comparable and ensure you always have useful reports over time.
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