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Make Your Work More Meaningful

Harvard Business Review

Have you noticed the rising chorus in the management literature proclaiming that work must have meaning? On this very site, for example, several authors have published research-based blog posts on how managers can create the conditions that support meaningful work. as well as daily totals of calls handled and sales made.

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The Research We’ve Ignored About Happiness at Work

Harvard Business Review

And just because we have more advanced technology today doesn’t mean we’re any closer to pinning down a definition, as Will Davies reminds us in his new book The Happiness Industry. The researchers asked their subjects to watch a film that would usually make them happy — a figure skater winning a medal.

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