Happiness and Employment Status

Yagi, Tadashi; Urakawa, Kunio; Yonezaki, Katsuhiko

doi:10.1007/978-4-431-55753-1_9

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“…In addition, there are different studies that show the influence of happiness in companies, generating greater growth and productivity [20,21]. For example, Oswald et al (2015) [22], show in their research how productivity increases by up to 12% when there are reports of "feeling good" and a greater sense of happiness in the work environment.…”

Section: Happiness At Work and Organizational Ethicsmentioning

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Ethics and Happiness at Work in the Spanish Financial Sector

2020

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Happiness at work requires a good working environment, which undoubtedly improves productivity. In this sphere, the concept is closely related to job satisfaction, which is one of the main factors determining individual happiness, along with home ownership, security, and a healthy environment. Innovative policies to improve corporate well-being—organizational ethics—improve the image of the company, and help transfer the concept of ‘happy management’ to all stakeholders. In addition, remote working, which has become essential for many during the COVID-19 pandemic, poses a key issue in terms of human resource management that needs to be taken into account. Using a survey of working-age Spanish citizens, we established a measure of organizational ethics based on the possible discrepancy between citizens’ personal happiness and their happiness at work. The analysis focused on one of the essential economic sectors in the face of the pandemic, the financial sector. These workers demand organizational ethics with clear values in social responsibility and training, going beyond the achievement of a socially acceptable income. A comparative linear model is also used to test the relationships between a number of conditioning variables and organizational ethics. Citizens’/workers’ priorities are found to shift towards quality of life with a healthy environment, rather than sustainability.

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Ethics and Happiness at Work in the Spanish Financial Sector

2020

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“…Previous studies on the relationship between happiness and employment status reported various results, but the results were unclear in the case of the self-employed [ 12 , 13 , 14 ]. One of the characteristics of Korea’s employment status is the high rate of self-employment.…”

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Leisure Factors Predicting the Happiness of Self-Employed Workers in South Korea

Park

Kim

Park

2021

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South Korea’s employment status is characterized by a high rate of self-employment and many small-scale self-employed businesses with no employees. This study explored leisure factors relating to self-employed individuals’ subjective happiness based on data from the 2019 National Leisure Activity Survey. The extracted data (N = 2343) were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, Kendall’s τb coefficient, Eta correlation coefficient, phi coefficient, and Cramer’s V. And a three-step hierarchical regression analysis was performed to identify multidimensional variables that predict happiness more effectively. In Model 3, which additionally inserted positive and intrinsic factors into Model 2, the explanatory power was significantly increased. The predictors of subjective happiness among self-employed people identified in the final regression model were high economic status (β = 0.05), perceived health status (β = 0.32), financial constraints (β = −0.09), leisure recognition (β = 0.20), and work–life balance (leisure-oriented β = 0.09; work-oriented β = −0.13). This study’s findings will contribute to the establishment of basic data, to prepare empirical measures to improve self-employed individuals’ quality of life.

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