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BL
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877352
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| Main Entry
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Warr, Peter B., (Peter Bryan)
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| Title & Author
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The joy of work? : : jobs, happiness, and you /\ Peter Warr and Guy Clapperton.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge, Taylor & Franics Group,, 2010.
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190 pages :: illustrations ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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0415459656
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: 0415459664
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: 9780415459655
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: 9780415459662
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| Notes
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1. Work and Happiness: An Unlikely Comincation?: Introduction to Issues and Contents. 2. Why Work?: Features of the environment, unemployment and motivations to work. 3. Feeling Good and Feeling Bad: Aspects of happiness and some questionnaire. 4. The Top Twleve Job Features: Outline of the key 12 characteristics and types of impact. 5. What's in a Job?: Summarizing research into the Top Twelve and their sub-components in work settings. 6. It's in Your Genes as Well as Your Job: The influence of inheritance and personality. 7. Come to Think About It ... Happiness Is Relative: Thinking styles that affect happiness. 8. Actions as Well as Words: Practical steps to increase job happiness.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Work and Happiness: An Unlikely Comincation?: Introduction to Issues and Contents. 2. Why Work?: Features of the environment, unemployment and motivations to work. 3. Feeling Good and Feeling Bad: Aspects of happiness and some questionnaire. 4. The Top Twleve Job Features: Outline of the key 12 characteristics and types of impact. 5. What's in a Job?: Summarizing research into the Top Twelve and their sub-components in work settings. 6. It's in Your Genes as Well as Your Job: The influence of inheritance and personality. 7. Come to Think About It ... Happiness Is Relative: Thinking styles that affect happiness. 8. Actions as Well as Words: Practical steps to increase job happiness.
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| Abstract
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This book looks at people's happiness and unhappiness in their jobs and aims to help the reader to actually do something about it. It promises to improve your approach to work - and therefore your happiness at work - for good.
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Job satisfaction.
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Quality of work life.
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Arbeitspsychologie.
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Arbeitszufriedenheit.
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Job satisfaction.
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Lebenszufriedenheit.
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Leistungsmotivation.
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Quality of work life.
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| Dewey Classification
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650.1
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| LC Classification
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HF5549.5.J63W367 2010
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| Added Entry
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Clapperton, Guy.
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