Longitudinal studies have recently shown that employees who are truly happy are better for your business. A happy attitude, particularly of front line employees, means that your staff is pleasant, helpful and its behavior helps to build your firms good name, claims the management-issues.com website.
Proliferation of positive feeling through the company
For research purposes, happiness is defined as well-being, which is not exactly the same as pleasure. Well-being is more like a worry-free outlook on life with a sense of contentedness prevailing. What is the biggest mistake managers often make? A truly disastrous one is to focus on petty, little things. When they do that too often, employees will be annoyed and then their behavior is governed by irritation. Another very important aspect is the ethics of superiors, because subordinates can feel good only when there is a sense of loyalty, honesty and responsibility.
Managers’ behavior sets the mood
A grumpy, bitter manager can easily spoil the atmosphere and drag all his team into stressful and unpleasant moods. It is almost impossible to boost engagement and productivity under such working conditions.
There is nothing like perpetual happiness. Some studies suggested that feeling of happiness fades with aging. However, when your general attitude towards aging is rather positive, the decline in happiness you will feel will not be so great. A happy person is less prone to sadness, it is much easier to keep him or her happy, as opposed to a grim person, whose mood is elevated only with difficulty.
When there are two candidates for a vacancy and their important job skills are the same, hire the candidate with a positive attitude. He won’t lose his warm and friendly attitude. Problems connected to melancholy will probably only get worse as time passes.
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