Finding a path for happiness in the context of sustainable development: a possible key

Leite, Ângela; Sousa, Hélder Fernando Pedrosa e; Vidal, Diogo Guedes; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta

doi:10.1080/13504509.2019.1708509

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“…There is currently a great deal of research on the economics of happiness that empirically demonstrates that money alone does not bring higher levels of subjective well-being or happiness to human beings in the era of the digital society (Powdthavee, 2010 ; Ravina-Ripoll et al, 2020 ). If this issue is examined from the perspectives of positive psychology and happiness management, it shows us, among other things, that people's happiness is conditioned by a wide range of heterogeneous factors, including health, sexual behavior, resilience, stress, or quality of life (Blanchflower and Oswald, 2004 ; Leite et al, 2020 ; Tandler et al, 2020 ). It is generally accepted that happiness is found, on the one hand, in the individual satisfaction that is enjoyed in the long term when our achievements and purposes are fulfilled—eudemonism—and, on the other hand, in the pleasure of carrying out rewarding activities in the short and medium term—hedonism (Huta and Waterman, 2014 ).…”

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How Does Happiness Influence the Loyalty of Karate Athletes? A Model of Structural Equations From the Constructs: Consumer Satisfaction, Engagement, and Meaningful

2021

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Federations are concerned about attracting new sportsmen and sportswomen and increasing the number of members. The purpose of this research was to describe karate federations' strategies for attracting and retaining members through happiness. The analysis was carried out by designing a structural equation modeling (SEM), which allowed to analyze the main variables that influenced the happiness of the karate athlete and consequently to study their effect on people's loyalty to sports federations. In particular, Partial least squares SEM was applied in an overall model when it was possible to understand the happiness role in relation with other traditional relevant variables on loyalty. The data were obtained through primary sources employing a survey sent to the autonomous federations in the discipline of karate, obtaining a sample of 682 federated members in Spain. The results of the model revealed that consumer satisfaction, engagement, and meaningful influence on consumer happiness, but engagement was the most important and relevant variable for affecting this variable. Finally, consumer satisfaction and consumer happiness influence loyalty, and consumer satisfaction was the most important variable, but consumer happiness showed a real alternative for improving loyalty in karate sports federations. Then, one of the implications of this work was that it helped to explain how the federations can be managed to achieve loyal consumers together with a more considerable increase in the number of federated members.

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How Does Happiness Influence the Loyalty of Karate Athletes? A Model of Structural Equations From the Constructs: Consumer Satisfaction, Engagement, and Meaningful

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“…Regarding the factors that determine the happiness of employees, Dutschke et al (2019) group them into four large categories: relative to the individual, relative to the individual's family environment, relative to the organization or the sector in which the person performs his/ her work and relative to the territory in which he/she lives. Among the organizational factors that enhance employees' happiness, the literature points to the following: organizational commitment (Leite et al, 2020), feedback from supervisor's support (Drummond et al, 2017), decentralization (Frey et al, 2014), emotional factors at work (Leal et al, 2015); company size (Campaniço, 2012), work environment and safety (Campaniço, 2012), the type of leadership (Deci et al, 1989;Gerstner and Day, 1997;Perko et al, 2016;Tu et al, 2017), training and development (Xanthopoulou et al, 2012) and CSR (Garc ıa-Del Junco et al, 2014a). Garc ıa-Del Junco et al (2014a) state that companies that actively and strategically commit to CSR have a high likelihood of achieving improvements in the degree of happiness of their employees compared to those firms that do not present a social orientation.…”

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Employee happiness and corporate social responsibility: the role of organizational culture

Espasandín-Bustelo

Ganaza-Vargas

Díaz-Carrión

2020

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PurposeThis research explores how does the organizational culture influence internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions and the effect of these actions on the level of happiness of employees.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopts an employee perspective since the perception of employees is the unit of analysis. By relying on a sample of 921 workers of firms from different sectors and sizes headquartered in Spain, the empirical analysis is performed using partial least squares.FindingsThe findings evidence that clan and adhocracy cultures highly foster internal CSR practices and that internal CSR activities enhance employees' happiness. The mediating role of internal CSR in the relationship between organizational culture and employee happiness is also found. These results suggest that managers could play a proactive role in fostering internal CSR by designing the organizational culture according to features of clan and adhocracy cultures such as flexibility, innovation, creativity, autonomy, communication, training and support of supervisors.Research limitations/implicationsThe research focuses on a single country, which makes it difficult to generalize the results and guides future research into cross-cultural analysis. Including countries that present differences in their cultural and institutional context would allow to explore the influence of the national context on the business culture, on internal CSR and on employee happiness. This work is also limited in time, as the data used are of a cross-cultural nature.Practical implicationsA greater effort in internal CSR by companies translates into a higher level of happiness for their workers. Specifically, occupational health and safety practices have the greatest influence on employee happiness. Hence, organizations must develop cultures that contribute to promote internal CSR—adhocracy and clan—since this would enhance employees' happiness if the values and beliefs that characterize these cultural configurations are translated into internal CSR practices such as occupational health and safety, work–life balance and equal opportunities.Social implicationsThe improvement of employee happiness creates social value and can be enhanced through an organizational culture that promotes CSR. The research findings might be useful when defining institutional policies to promote job quality, as encouraged by the social policy agenda of the United Nations embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals.Originality/valuePromoting internal CSR through organizational culture will have positive effects for companies internally by enhancing employees' happiness. Therefore, the article contributes to overcome the lack of evidence about the antecedents of internal CSR and its relationship with employees' happiness, an emerging variable in the management literature.

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“…Hales (2010) described an emotionally healthy person as someone who exhibits flexibility and adaptability to different circumstances, a sense of meaning and affirmation in life, an understanding that the self is not the center of the universe, compassion, selflessness, and a sense of control over the mind and body. Thus, the pursuit of happiness should be realized as a fundamental human goal for all nations and integrated into public policy objectives ( Leite et al., 2020 ).…”

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A proposed integrated happiness framework to achieve sustainable development

Choon

Yong

Tan

et al. 2022

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Finding a path for happiness in the context of sustainable development: a possible key

Cited by 8 publications

References 52 publications

How Does Happiness Influence the Loyalty of Karate Athletes? A Model of Structural Equations From the Constructs: Consumer Satisfaction, Engagement, and Meaningful

How Does Happiness Influence the Loyalty of Karate Athletes? A Model of Structural Equations From the Constructs: Consumer Satisfaction, Engagement, and Meaningful

Employee happiness and corporate social responsibility: the role of organizational culture

A proposed integrated happiness framework to achieve sustainable development

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