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	<title>Comments on: Ask the CHO: What&#8217;s with all this happiness crap?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Miika Niemelä</title>
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		<dc:creator>Miika Niemelä</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Simple:
We allready have jobs, now we just want to make it a pleasant thing to do? What is wrong with that, and how is that a bad thing to people?

There is also a complex answer, which would include some talk of the fast paced nature of the modern world and so on.</description>
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We allready have jobs, now we just want to make it a pleasant thing to do? What is wrong with that, and how is that a bad thing to people?</p>
<p>There is also a complex answer, which would include some talk of the fast paced nature of the modern world and so on.</p>
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		<title>By: Great comments</title>
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		<dc:creator>Great comments</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: James</title>
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		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>*raises hand*

While its true money is by no means my top motivator, knowing your under paid is, for me, a major de-motivator.</description>
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<p>While its true money is by no means my top motivator, knowing your under paid is, for me, a major de-motivator.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>*keeps hand down*

I took a job for less pay than I could have because I wanted to get out of the Military Industrial Complex, where working conditions are motivated by a rigid corporate bleakness, and into a small, dynamic company.

Happiness is about control, not money, but money is a good indicator of where the balance of power lies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*keeps hand down*</p>
<p>I took a job for less pay than I could have because I wanted to get out of the Military Industrial Complex, where working conditions are motivated by a rigid corporate bleakness, and into a small, dynamic company.</p>
<p>Happiness is about control, not money, but money is a good indicator of where the balance of power lies.</p>
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		<title>By: JACH</title>
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		<dc:creator>JACH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;&quot;The sad, sad thing is that business feels like it has to be responsible for a grown person’s happiness as a business priority. We really have surrendered a lot of our inner personal terrain, responsiblity, and maturity.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

I couldn&#039;t agree more with this. It&#039;s the same when people expect that values are teached in school (although, the real education takes place at home, always).

However, somewhere in the &quot;positive sharing realm&quot; ;o) it&#039;s stated that &lt;b&gt;&quot;happiness is a personal choice&quot;&lt;/b&gt;, not a &quot;company policy&quot;.

&lt;i&gt;The thing is&lt;/i&gt; that some companies &lt;i&gt;try very hard to do the opposite&lt;/i&gt;. Just a few weeks ago (supposedly in the sake of the &quot;5s&quot;, if you have heard the term), management banned us from decorating our cubicles (among other things). Hopefully I&#039;ll be able to remove this ban shortly, but you get the point.

At the end, the thing is not about making your employees happy, but allowing them be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>&#8220;The sad, sad thing is that business feels like it has to be responsible for a grown person’s happiness as a business priority. We really have surrendered a lot of our inner personal terrain, responsiblity, and maturity.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree more with this. It&#8217;s the same when people expect that values are teached in school (although, the real education takes place at home, always).</p>
<p>However, somewhere in the &#8220;positive sharing realm&#8221; ;o) it&#8217;s stated that <b>&#8220;happiness is a personal choice&#8221;</b>, not a &#8220;company policy&#8221;.</p>
<p><i>The thing is</i> that some companies <i>try very hard to do the opposite</i>. Just a few weeks ago (supposedly in the sake of the &#8220;5s&#8221;, if you have heard the term), management banned us from decorating our cubicles (among other things). Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to remove this ban shortly, but you get the point.</p>
<p>At the end, the thing is not about making your employees happy, but allowing them be.</p>
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		<title>By: Kristian Aa Rasmussen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kristian Aa Rasmussen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mack: Happiness at work is the great new discovery in leadership of companies. It&#039;s as simple as this:

1) If the company mission is about saving the world
Happiness is a fundamental value to a lot of people and thus worth achieveing in it self.

2) If the company mission is about making more money for the shareholders
Encouraging fun and happiness at work is a way of adapting the workplace to humans. Like providing chair, table and canteen which are pure basics, career opportunities and welfare are among those further ways of getting the most of the company&#039;s human resources.

3) A combination:
There seems to be no good reason why a company can not have both missions and treat both shareholder value and human happiness as values in themselves.

Furthermore there does not seem to be any evidence that we can&#039;t all be winners. Most serious attemps that I have heard of or read about have succeeded. Of course we can&#039;t - for example -  all be equally happy and therefore there will always be relative unhappiness. But it seems to be quite possible to continue to make everyone happier than they were before - and that is probably a more meaningful definition of being a winner.

Have a nice weekend!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mack: Happiness at work is the great new discovery in leadership of companies. It&#8217;s as simple as this:</p>
<p>1) If the company mission is about saving the world<br />
Happiness is a fundamental value to a lot of people and thus worth achieveing in it self.</p>
<p>2) If the company mission is about making more money for the shareholders<br />
Encouraging fun and happiness at work is a way of adapting the workplace to humans. Like providing chair, table and canteen which are pure basics, career opportunities and welfare are among those further ways of getting the most of the company&#8217;s human resources.</p>
<p>3) A combination:<br />
There seems to be no good reason why a company can not have both missions and treat both shareholder value and human happiness as values in themselves.</p>
<p>Furthermore there does not seem to be any evidence that we can&#8217;t all be winners. Most serious attemps that I have heard of or read about have succeeded. Of course we can&#8217;t &#8211; for example &#8211;  all be equally happy and therefore there will always be relative unhappiness. But it seems to be quite possible to continue to make everyone happier than they were before &#8211; and that is probably a more meaningful definition of being a winner.</p>
<p>Have a nice weekend!</p>
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		<title>By: Gabriel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gabriel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I do decorate my desk! I have loads of pictures from families and friends on my desk and I can not understand why some people instead of trying to &#039;hang&#039; some nice stuff in their desk decide to hang some procedure or some work related A4 piece of paper.

I love my individuality and I want any person to come up to my desk look my pictures and my stuff and see the real me, not only another co-worker.

I have Ronaldo&#039;s autography in my desk, tickets from football match, pictures with my friends on a beach. It may sound silly, but I do need to look at them from time to time and smile ....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do decorate my desk! I have loads of pictures from families and friends on my desk and I can not understand why some people instead of trying to &#8216;hang&#8217; some nice stuff in their desk decide to hang some procedure or some work related A4 piece of paper.</p>
<p>I love my individuality and I want any person to come up to my desk look my pictures and my stuff and see the real me, not only another co-worker.</p>
<p>I have Ronaldo&#8217;s autography in my desk, tickets from football match, pictures with my friends on a beach. It may sound silly, but I do need to look at them from time to time and smile &#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Cypressotter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cypressotter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Raise your hand if salary is NOT your top job motivator.</description>
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		<title>By: Tragically L33T &#187; Balance in All Things</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tragically L33T &#187; Balance in All Things</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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