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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

The principal concepts -- Well-being and self-validation -- Unemployment and retirement : role preference and other influences -- Environmental features and the vitamin analogy -- Money, security, position, supervision, outlook, and equity -- Variety, clarity, and social contact -- Combinations, measurement, causes, and work profiles -- Social and judgmental influences on happiness -- Personality, genes, and happiness -- Differences between groups and between people -- Moderator effects and differential salience -- Person-environment fit and work values -- Some consequences of happiness