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Week 4: Positive Psychology and Workplace Satisfaction (Individual…
Week 4: Positive Psychology and Workplace Satisfaction
Positive Emotions
We experience positive emotions when we savour and appreciate pleasures such as
Bodily needs
Good food
Massage
Desired materials
Money
New car
Natural environment
Beach
Forest
Positive Psychology
The research on how individuals can optimise and sustain positive life experiences in multiple areas
Work
Family
Relationship
Fitness
A revolution from early psychological tradition that focused on "what's wrong with people?"
Psychoanalysis
Behaviourism
Answers questions
How to live a good and fulfilling life?
What makes life worth living?
How to flourish and realise our ultimate potential?
Optimism
Influenced by past experiences, role models and psychological training
Attributes negative events to external events
Expectation that good things will happen
Pessimists attribute negative events to internal factors
Mindfulness
The state of being attentive to and aware of what is taking place in the present
Employees who are mindful, tend to:
Show more self-regulation or autonomy in daily tasks
Experience less psychological disturbance when facing adversities
Experience less negative emotion
Experience less anxiety
Experience higher self-esteem
Mindfulness at work is influenced by various psychological, relational and organisational factors
Factors that increase mindfulness
Practice
Job autonomy
Supervisor support
Factors that reduce mindfulness
Task routineness
Poor environment support
Experiences of flow
Comes from engaging in activities that use one's signature strengths
Examples: reading, running
A state of absorption
Individual Character Strength
Wisdom and knowledge
Courage
Humanity
Justice
Temperance
Transcendence
Character strengths are observed and measurable across various cultures, although each culture emphasises a subset of strengths
Creativity
Generation of ideas, insights, or problem solutions that are novel and potentially useful
People are more creative when:
Are in positive moods
Are under moderate stress
Are rewarded for being creative
Have creative colleagues and supervisors
Have supportive organisational resources
Organisational innovation
Production or adoption, assimilation and exploitation of a value-added novelty in economic and social spheres
Renewal and enlargement of products, services and markets
Development of new methods of production
Establishment of new management systems