Inverting the pyramid of needs: Positive psychology’s new order for labor success
Antecedents: Positive psychologists claim to have demonstrated a causal relationship between happiness and life success, with the former accounting for why people usually end up better off in life than others, especially at workplace. Method: In this paper we will analyse the role that happiness-bas...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2016 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| Repository: | e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/23057 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/23057 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | 72 Filosofía positive psychology psychology of labor happiness pyramid of needs Maslow psicología positiva psicología del trabajo felicidad pirámide de las necesidades |
| Summary: | Antecedents: Positive psychologists claim to have demonstrated a causal relationship between happiness and life success, with the former accounting for why people usually end up better off in life than others, especially at workplace. Method: In this paper we will analyse the role that happiness-based repertoires and techniques provided by positive psychologists are playing in the current labor sphere. Results: Positive psychologists’ repertoires and techniques do not only meet the emerging demands derived from the changes in the notions of “work” and “worker” in the last decades, but also introduce a whole new logic in the construction of professional workers’ subjectivity, according to which happiness becomes a necessary psychological state that workers must first achieve and develop in order to attain job success at work. Discussion: This emerging logic does not only circumscribe to the labor sphere, but also reflects a broader cultural and economic phenomenon. |
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