The Happy-Productive Worker Thesis Revisited

By John M. Zelenski, Steven A. Murphy, David A. Jenkins. 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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Family Emotional Support, Positive Psychological Capital and Job Satisfaction Among Chinese White-Collar Workers (2015, background): “In addition, job satisfaction is closely related to happiness and satisfaction with life in general as they are all categorised under subjective well-being (Zelenski et al. 2008).”
A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Relationship Between State Affect, Discrete Emotions, and Job Performance (2012, background): “…of research has led to many reviews on the topic, both in narrative (Barsade & Gibson, 2007; Brief & Weiss, 2002; Forgas & George, 2001; Wright & Cropanzano, 2007) and meta-analytic form (Borman, Penner, Allen, & Motowidlo, 2001; Dalal, 2005; Kaplan, Bradley, Luchman, & Haynes, 2009;…”
Involuntary Temporary and Part-Time Work, Job Quality and Well-Being at Work (2015, background): “In the literature, a clear-cut link has also been shown to exist between job quality and productivity (e.g. Zelenski et al. 2008; Buhai et al. 2008).”
A Conceptual Model for Green Human Resource Management: Indicators, Differential Pathways, and Multiple Pro-Environmental Outcomes (2020, methodology): “Though the happy-productive thesis lends support to the linkage between job satisfaction and job performance [38], Bowling’s [25] meta-analytic work presents the finding that the association between job satisfaction and job performance is mostly spurious.”
Well-Being, Personal Success and Business Performance Among Entrepreneurs: A Two-Wave Study (2018, background): “Studies focusing on happiness as a state generally found stronger evidence than studies operationalizing it as a trait (Zelenski et al. 2008).”
Fostering task and adaptive performance through employee well-being: The role of servant leadership (2020, background): “As positivity builds resources through the broadened cognitions and behaviors, it leads to better performance (Wright & Cropanzano, 2007).”
The Impact of Core Self-evaluations on Job Satisfaction: The Mediator Role of Career Commitment (2013, background): “Studies have indicated that job satisfaction is significantly related to life satisfaction, and it has been powerfully argued that work strongly influences the quality of life, even when researchers control covariates such as workplace conditions (Sehlen et al. 2009; Mastekaasa 1984; Zelenski et al.”
The Interactive Effects of Psychological Capital and Organizational Identity on Employee Organizational Citizenship and Deviance Behaviors (2010, methodology): “…psychological constructs such as virtuousness (e.g., Cameron, Bright, & Caza, 2004); compassion (e.g., Lilius et al., 2008); well-being (e.g., Wright & Cropanzano, 2007); and efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience (e.g., Avey, Luthans, & Youssef, 2010; Peterson & Byron, 2008; Youssef &…”
Effects of a Strengths Intervention on General and Work-Related Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Affect (2017, background): “Organizations take great interest in promoting employee health and well-being (Danna and Griffin 1999) because happy workers are assumed to be more productive workers (Zelenski et al. 2008; Lyubomirsky et al. 2005) who are better able to cope with the high demands of”
Happiness and Productivity (2015, unknown): “Here the happiness treatment is chocolates 1 fruit 1 drinks in the laboratory.”