Workplace Happiness Research & References  

Amabile, T., Barsade, S., Mueller, J. and Staw, B. (2005), ‘Affect and Creativity at Work’, Administrative Science Quarterly, 50: 367-403 

 

Bennedsen, M., Perez-Gonzalez, F. and Wolfenzon, D. (2010), ‘Do CEOs Matter?’, Working paper, Stanford GSB. 

 

Clark, A., Diener, E., Georgellis, Y. and Lucas, R. (2008), ‘Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis’, Economic Journal, 118: 222-243. 

 

Erez, A. and Isen, A. (2002), ‘The Influence of Positive Affect on the Components of Expectancy Motivation’, Journal of Applied Psychology 89: 1055–1067. 

 

Gneezy, U. and Rustichini, A. (2000), ‘Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 115: 791-810. 

 

Killingsworth, M. and Gilbert, D. (2010), ‘A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy Mind’, Science 330: 932- 932. 

 

Niederle, M. and Vesterlund, L. (2007), ‘Do Women Shy away from Competition? Do Men Compete too Much?’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 122: 1067-1101. 

 

Oswald, A., Proto, E. and Sgroi, D. (2015), ‘Happiness and Productivity’, Journal of Labor Economics 33(4). 

 

Proto, E., Sgroi, D. and Oswald, A. (2012), ‘Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach’, Experimental Economics 15(1): 1-23. 

 

Are You Happy While You Work? Alex Bryson, George MacKerron

The Economic Journal, Volume 127, Issue 599, February 2017, Pages 106–125, Published: 12 January 2016

 

Does Employee Happiness have an Impact on Productivity? Saïd Business School WP 2019-13

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Happiness Economics Wikipedia 

Subjective Well Being Wikipedia

Satisfaction with Life Wikipedia

Quality of Life  Wikipedia  

Gross National Happiness Wikipedia

Happiness Wikipedia

Happy Planet Index Wikipedia 

Life Satisfaction Wikipedia

The World Happiness Report 2020 (Ahem, Of course the data was culled prior to 2020)