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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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/677421 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/677421 https://dx.doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2015.267 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Positive psychology Psychology of labor Happiness Pyramid of needs Maslow Psicología positiva Psicología del trabajo Felicidad Pirámide de las necesidades Psicología |
| Sumario: | 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 fi rst 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 refl ects a broader cultural and economic phenomenon |
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