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suggestions ( via MIT Sloan ) 1. Measure happiness in both employees and job candidates. 2. Develop happiness in your workforce. 3. Retain employees who are

by pella 5y ago

suggestions ( via MIT Sloan ) 1. Measure happiness in both employees and job candidates. 2. Develop happiness in your workforce. 3. Retain employees who are happy.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago
On one hand, this seems like a minefield of potential issues. If you build processes to measure "happiness" and make retain/fire decisions based on it, you're going to get a lot of fake happiness as soon as the employees figure it out. A lot. However, in the past I've made the mistake of trying to retain angry, unhappy, or otherwise disgruntled employees too long. Some people are just irreversibly angry in life and will find a way to be upset about everything. Leaving them in the company will start to bring everyone down. If someone is clearly miserable at your company and you've made efforts to address their problems with no improvement, it's time to remove them.
- roschdal 5y ago
- galaxyLogic 5y ago
  But it might be that if people pretend to be happy they try to invent reasons why they should be happy and as they tell themselves and others why they (say they) are happy they start being a bit more happy. If you really want to fake happiness the best way is to try to be happy
  - dustymcp 5y ago
    Fake it till you make it
    - lazide 5y ago
      Having personally had to deal with folks whose strategy in the face of hard times is faking being happy? Yikes. Delusion is dangerous.
- nefitty 5y ago
  Our relationships at work make or break the whole endeavor. As a manager, it is imperative to protect your directs from toxicity. Horizontally, that means discussing and working out issues regarding satisfaction with colleagues. If skip-levels aren't conducted with happiness in mind, then they're barely more than useless. Managers who cannot steer away or excise toxicity need to be excised themselves. Pizza and bonuses doesn't equal happiness. Making your office look like Google doesn't bring happiness. The two main things are positive, constructive relationships and autonomy.
ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>2. Develop happiness in your workforce. Floggings will continue until your happiness KPIs improve.
- inter_netuser 5y ago
  you forgot to add (MIT Sloan)
avgcorrection 5y ago
Fitter, happier, more productive Comfortable (Not drinking too much) Regular exercise at the gym (Three days a week) Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries At ease Eating well (No more microwave dinners and saturated fats) A patient, better driver A safer car (Baby smiling in back seat) Sleeping well (No bad dreams)
- Bancakes 5y ago
  Exercise doesn't have to be at the gym. You can do fairly high level calisthenics with a weighed bag and/or Olympic rings Excellent books on the topic like Your Body is Your Gym, Overcoming Gravity, and Paul Wade's ultimate isometrics.
  - robin_reala 5y ago
    In case you missed GP’s sarcasm, this is the beginning of the lyrics to Radiohead’s Fitter Happier.[1] To give you the general tenor of the piece’s downwards spiral, the song finishes with: Like a cat Tied to a stick That's driven into Frozen winter shit (The ability to laugh at weakness) Calm Fitter, healthier and more productive A pig In a cage On antibiotics [1] https://genius.com/Radiohead-fitter-happier-lyrics https://genius.com/Radiohead-fitter-happier-lyrics
- paganel 5y ago
  No ofense to you in the slightest but your comment made me think of the darkest of dystopias. Re-reading it and getting to the "A patient, better driver" part I had to think of an un-patient, bad driver to sort of erase that feeling from my head, the best I could find was this scene with Harvey Keitel in "Bad Lieutenant" [1]. It also helps that I'm a Mets fan and, as such, we are almost never happy. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir8Y4iFrWk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir8Y4iFrWk8
  - niek_pas 5y ago
    I think you're missing the fact that these are the 'lyrics' to Radiohead's "Fittier Happier", which is absolutely intended to convey a distopia.
ant6n 5y ago
Reality of how management creates a happy force: 1. Create company where you say u care about happiness but you don't actually do anything to make ppl happy. Due to randomness, some ppl will be happy, and those who happen to be treated badly will be unhappy. 2. Measure happiness (perhaps with an "anonymous" employee satisfaction survey) 3. Retain ppl who are happy.

by pella 5y ago

suggestions ( via MIT Sloan ) 1. Measure happiness in both employees and job candidates. 2. Develop happiness in your workforce. 3. Retain employees who are happy.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago

On one hand, this seems like a minefield of potential issues. If you build processes to measure "happiness" and make retain/fire decisions based on it, you're going to get a lot of fake happiness as soon as the employees figure it out. A lot. However, in the past I've made the mistake of trying to retain angry, unhappy, or otherwise disgruntled employees too long. Some people are just irreversibly angry in life and will find a way to be upset about everything. Leaving them in the company will start to bring everyone down. If someone is clearly miserable at your company and you've made efforts to address their problems with no improvement, it's time to remove them.

roschdal 5y ago
galaxyLogic 5y ago
But it might be that if people pretend to be happy they try to invent reasons why they should be happy and as they tell themselves and others why they (say they) are happy they start being a bit more happy. If you really want to fake happiness the best way is to try to be happy
- dustymcp 5y ago
  Fake it till you make it
  - lazide 5y ago
    Having personally had to deal with folks whose strategy in the face of hard times is faking being happy? Yikes. Delusion is dangerous.
nefitty 5y ago
Our relationships at work make or break the whole endeavor. As a manager, it is imperative to protect your directs from toxicity. Horizontally, that means discussing and working out issues regarding satisfaction with colleagues. If skip-levels aren't conducted with happiness in mind, then they're barely more than useless. Managers who cannot steer away or excise toxicity need to be excised themselves. Pizza and bonuses doesn't equal happiness. Making your office look like Google doesn't bring happiness. The two main things are positive, constructive relationships and autonomy.

ChuckNorris89 5y ago

>2. Develop happiness in your workforce. Floggings will continue until your happiness KPIs improve.

inter_netuser 5y ago
you forgot to add (MIT Sloan)

avgcorrection 5y ago

Fitter, happier, more productive Comfortable (Not drinking too much) Regular exercise at the gym (Three days a week) Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries At ease Eating well (No more microwave dinners and saturated fats) A patient, better driver A safer car (Baby smiling in back seat) Sleeping well (No bad dreams)

Bancakes 5y ago
Exercise doesn't have to be at the gym. You can do fairly high level calisthenics with a weighed bag and/or Olympic rings Excellent books on the topic like Your Body is Your Gym, Overcoming Gravity, and Paul Wade's ultimate isometrics.
- robin_reala 5y ago
  In case you missed GP’s sarcasm, this is the beginning of the lyrics to Radiohead’s Fitter Happier.[1] To give you the general tenor of the piece’s downwards spiral, the song finishes with: Like a cat Tied to a stick That's driven into Frozen winter shit (The ability to laugh at weakness) Calm Fitter, healthier and more productive A pig In a cage On antibiotics [1] https://genius.com/Radiohead-fitter-happier-lyrics https://genius.com/Radiohead-fitter-happier-lyrics
paganel 5y ago
No ofense to you in the slightest but your comment made me think of the darkest of dystopias. Re-reading it and getting to the "A patient, better driver" part I had to think of an un-patient, bad driver to sort of erase that feeling from my head, the best I could find was this scene with Harvey Keitel in "Bad Lieutenant" [1]. It also helps that I'm a Mets fan and, as such, we are almost never happy. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir8Y4iFrWk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir8Y4iFrWk8
- niek_pas 5y ago
  I think you're missing the fact that these are the 'lyrics' to Radiohead's "Fittier Happier", which is absolutely intended to convey a distopia.

ant6n 5y ago

Reality of how management creates a happy force: 1. Create company where you say u care about happiness but you don't actually do anything to make ppl happy. Due to randomness, some ppl will be happy, and those who happen to be treated badly will be unhappy. 2. Measure happiness (perhaps with an "anonymous" employee satisfaction survey) 3. Retain ppl who are happy.