The many upsides of a happy workforce
Short version of an article by Lennox Morrison on BBC.com Lennox wrote an article about Happiness at work and starts with the Dutch company Incentro that in 2012 did [...]
July 2017
Small acts of kindness at work benefit the giver, the receiver and the whole organisation
Article by Alex Fradera from Research Digest In the lab, psychologists have shown how generosity propagates and spreads. If someone is kind to us, we tend to “pay it [...]
Happiness and productivity: Understanding the happy-productive worker
“Happiness” is now an accepted and important policy objective for governments alongside big aggregate targets such as economic growth or unemployment. However, there [...]
If You Want to Create a Culture of Engagement, Get 5 Key Issues Right
Article from Patrick Leddin (www.patrickleddin.com). Patrick is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University, a consultant and a writer. Are you effectively engaging both [...]
Top-5 best read articles in June 2017
Three of our interviews made it into our top-5 of most read articles. If you have any suggestions who we could interview next, please let us know at Info@HappinessBureau.nl. [...]
The Neuroscience of Trust
Short version of the article from Paul J. Zak on HBR.org Companies are twisting themselves into knots to empower and challenge their employees. They’re anxious about the [...]
Unhappy Employees Are Costing You: 4 Lessons From Denmark
Unhappy employees cost U.S. companies as much as $550 billion every year. That’s roughly the equivalent of the valuation of Google or Apple, the world’s two [...]