The joy of work?: jobs, happiness, and you

Abstract

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