{"id":3893,"date":"2013-11-07T11:47:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T11:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infinitedesigndev.com\/discop\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2013-11-07T11:47:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T11:47:13","slug":"why-happiness-in-the-workplace-is-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/why-happiness-in-the-workplace-is-so-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why happiness in the workplace is so important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery-performance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Happy-employees-620.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3895 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discovery-performance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Happy-employees-620-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Happy-employees-620\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The key to productivity in the workplace could be something other than financial incentives, according to studies in America.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Matthew Lieberman, professor of psychology, psychiatry and bio-behavioral sciences at UCLA, believes that the key ingredient is, in fact, happiness.<\/p>\n<p>He reported that countless employees are unhappy and are saying that they only work for money, yet many would swap it for a better boss and a healthier work environment.<\/p>\n<p>For years, rewarding employees with higher contracts and bonuses has been a sure-fire way to drive productivity. However, it now seems that may no longer be the case.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Lieberman claims that an understanding of what drives people in general is required, and that it must then be transferred to the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Links to how our brain works<\/p>\n<p>He points to a social pain, much akin to physical pain, that means people do not perform as well as their brain reacts in a similar fashion to how it deals with real pain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can understand why someone who just broke their leg would score lower &#8211; how could they possibly focus when experiencing intense pain?&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet, the same is true of social injuries because all pain grabs our attention leaving less attention for other important things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Praise from others, fair treatment and the opportunity to help others can improve happiness and thus productivity, he claims.<\/p>\n<p>A workplace that stimulates workers and is socially rewarding is therefore important to ensure that all workers reach their potential.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, praising employees might be just as productive as giving them a raise &#8211; except it will cost less to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Lieberman pointed to several studies which found that employee productivity leapt up when they were able to help others.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, everyone will not feel entirely the same as those people within these studies, but it does suggest that happiness at work can go a very long way.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key to productivity in the workplace could be something other than financial incentives, according to studies in America. Dr Matthew Lieberman, professor of psychology, psychiatry and bio-behavioural sciences at UCLA, believes that the key ingredient is, in fact, happiness. He reported that countless employees are unhappy and are saying that they only work for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}