JOB SATISFACTION

Employees who are sustainably employable, experience a high degree of vitality and do work that suits them and what they enjoy experience a higher degree of job happiness. Employees who experience a high degree of happiness at work are more engaged, more productive and less absent from work. Not entirely unimportant for the organization. Happy that you as an organization can contribute to the work happiness of your employees.

What is work happiness?

Work happiness is a cohesive feeling of multiple factors. It is often described as an ideal interaction between three emotions: enthusiasm, interest and satisfaction. In a general sense, then, when all three emotions are present to a high and positive degree, an employee experiences job happiness. Does this mean that an employee is never frustrated, or sometimes would rather stay in bed an hour longer? No, that can occur. It's about the overall mood of the employee.

3 ways to increase work happiness

For an employee to experience job happiness, there are some basic elements that an organization can provide to achieve this form of happiness:

1. First, this is supporting the sustainable employability of employees. Support them in what they need to be vital, receive training, have social security and be able to perform their work in a pleasant way. These are parts of creating a positive and healthy organizational culture where employees do meaningful work, experience freedom, receive appreciation and give each other honest feedback.
2. It is not only the employer who must be committed to the employee's job happiness. The employee himself plays an equally large role in this. It is up to him or her to also indicate what he or she needs, what is going on and what he or she is up against. But also to seize the opportunities and possibilities offered by the employer. This interaction creates the optimal conditions to increase the sustainable employability of your employees and provides the space to look for job happiness.
3. Both employer and employee have an interest in a lot of job happiness. First of all, the employee, because who doesn't want to go to work whistling? That the days fly by? And to see every day as a new challenge? Work happiness also makes the workday more enjoyable. The other side is for the organization: employees who experience more happiness at work are more vital, more productive and have fewer absences.

Make work of work happiness

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