Three things make us happy at work

A 2014 study at Warwick University found that workers who were shown a clip of a comedy film, or plied with chocolate and drinks, were more productive for a bit than colleagues who got no treats.

They said these ‘happiness treatments’ improved productivity by as much as 12%, although it was time-consuming and expensive.

To me, this feels wrong, as if our emotions were fair pickings for employers to manipulate in order to get a desired response.

And what happens when people tire of chocolate and clowns? What will the Chief Happiness Officer dream up next?

The question shouldn’t be how to keep people motivated in spite of their work, but how to make it so that they’re motivated by their work.

I don’t think anyone’s improved yet on Daniel Pink’s idea that people love their work when they get three things from it: Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose.

Deep and deliberate delegation is a way of giving people those things.

More here: https://dsabuilding.co.uk/deep-and-deliberate-delegation/

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