scholarly journals Ethics and Happiness at Work in the Spanish Financial Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9268
Author(s):  
Sonia Castellanos-Redondo ◽  
Domingo Nevado-Peña ◽  
Benito Yañez-Araque
Keyword(s):  
Home Ownership ◽  
Organizational Ethics ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Working Age ◽  
The Face

Happiness at work requires a good working environment, which undoubtedly improves productivity. In this sphere, the concept is closely related to job satisfaction, which is one of the main factors determining individual happiness, along with home ownership, security, and a healthy environment. Innovative policies to improve corporate well-being—organizational ethics—improve the image of the company, and help transfer the concept of ‘happy management’ to all stakeholders. In addition, remote working, which has become essential for many during the COVID-19 pandemic, poses a key issue in terms of human resource management that needs to be taken into account. Using a survey of working-age Spanish citizens, we established a measure of organizational ethics based on the possible discrepancy between citizens’ personal happiness and their happiness at work. The analysis focused on one of the essential economic sectors in the face of the pandemic, the financial sector. These workers demand organizational ethics with clear values in social responsibility and training, going beyond the achievement of a socially acceptable income. A comparative linear model is also used to test the relationships between a number of conditioning variables and organizational ethics. Citizens’/workers’ priorities are found to shift towards quality of life with a healthy environment, rather than sustainability.

scholarly journals A STUDY BY GENDER IN HAPPINESS AT WORK IN SPANISH FINANCIAL SECTOR

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia CASTELLANOS-REDONDO ◽  
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Doming NEVADO-PEÑA ◽  
Víctor-Raúl LÓPEZ-RUIZ ◽  
Nuria HUETE-ALCOCER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Organizational Ethics ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Personal Worth ◽  
Working Age ◽  
The Face ◽  
Corporate Social

Using a survey of working-age Spanish citizens in 2020, we established a measure of organizational ethics based on the possible discrepancy between citizen’s personal happiness and their happiness at work. The analysis focused on one of the essential economic sectors in the face of the pandemic, the financial sector. These workers demand organizational ethics with clear values in social responsibility and training, going beyond the achievement of a socially acceptable income. Other socio-demographic variables, such as gender, are of great interest for the analysis, being able to identify wage inequality and job satisfaction, which are more pronounced in the financial sector. Women are less happy at work, because of their job position and personal worth, thus being a key line to continue investigating in terms of corporate social responsibility and search for happiness of human capital. KEYWORDS: happiness at work, gender, quality of life, ethics, pandemic.

scholarly journals The regions in Bulgaria and the green economy - novelty or serious experience?

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 01017
Author(s):  
Stanka Delcheva
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Regional Development Policy ◽  
Transition Readiness ◽  
Programming Period

The report presents the regional development policy in Bulgaria after 2007 with focus of the stated and implemented support for application of a green economy transition’s instruments. The green economy is defined by relevant economic sectors and themes that add value to quality of life, reducing carbon emissions and creating jobs. Objective: to review the applying of instruments for transition to a green economy in the regions as part of regional development policy and promotion of the regions’ competitiveness. Methods: Descriptive analysis and review of documents were used; review of planning documents at regional and municipal level and analysis of the type of applied instruments for the transition to a green economy; comparative evaluation of the already applied instruments with the forecasts for the new programming period 2021-2027. Results: The applied in the period 2007 - 2020 instruments for supporting the transition to a green economy and their connection with the development of the regions in Bulgaria are traced. The results correlation of the already applied instruments with the approach envisaged in the programming period after 2021 has been assessed. Elements of the connection between transition readiness and the regions’ competitiveness are considered. Conclusions: Conclusions are drawn about the Bulgarian regions experience and capacities gained to exploit the potential and opportunities to increase competitiveness and well-being.

Place-Making and Sustainable Community Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 253-272
Author(s):  
Rosario Adapon Turvey
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Sustainable Community

This review chapter explores place-making in terms of how it is linked with sustainable community development (SCD). Place-making as it relates to sustainable community development has not been understood in the practice of sustainability, urban planning, and community development. Here, place-making is a process of planning, designing, managing, and programming spaces to create patterns and activities in cultural, social, economic, and ecological terms to achieve a better quality of life, a prosperous economy, and healthy environment. As informed by research, it can be an approach to sustainability thinking as a strategy for transforming cities and public spaces to promote well-being and prosperity in a local place, urban area, or neighborhood. In the long-term, the theory and practice of sustainable community development relative to place-making will evolve and eventually produce well-grounded meanings and conceptualizations as we engage in more research on sustainability and sustainable development.

Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy

2021 ◽  
pp. 489-494
Author(s):  
Melissa Masterson Duva ◽  
Wendy G. Lichtenthal ◽  
Allison J. Applebaum ◽  
William S. Breitbart
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Advanced Cancer ◽  
Psychosocial Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Existential Psychology ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
The Face

Existential concerns carry significant distress, particularly among patients with advanced cancer. For patients who are facing death, a sense of meaning—and the preservation of that meaning—is not only clinically and existentially important but also central to providing holistic, high-quality end-of-life care. Nearly two decades ago, the authors’ research group at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center began to understand that a meaning-centered approach to psychosocial care was imperative to alleviate the existential distress that plagued many patients with advanced cancer. Based on Viktor Frankl’s work on the importance of meaning and principles of existential psychology and philosophy, they developed Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) to help patients with advanced cancer sustain or enhance a sense of meaning, peace, and purpose in their lives in the face of terminal cancer. This chapter provides an overview of MCP in working with patients with cancer. It summarizes the ever-growing body of research that has demonstrated the effectiveness of MCP in improving meaning, spiritual well-being, and quality of life and in reducing psychological distress and despair at end of life. Adaptations of MCP for other purposes and populations, such as cancer survivors, caregivers, and bereavement, are mentioned but are elaborated on in other specific chapters related to these issues in this textbook.

scholarly journals On the economics of happiness: the influence of income and non-income factors on happiness

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darma Mahadea
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Small Contribution ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Economics Of Happiness ◽  
Economic Objective

The quest for individual happiness and a better life for all is an important economic objective in countries as different as South Africa and France or Zimbabwe and Bhutan. Economists have focused attention on the effects of consumption, income and economic growth or development on well-being and whether economic growth can be the sole basis for delivering prosperity (Dutt & Radcliff , 2009; Jackson, 2010).  The search for happiness is an important individual and national economic goal.  In the Benthamite utilitarian tradition, happiness is the sum of all pleasures and pains. People often obtain or perceive their happiness from what they have in comparison with others.  At the macroeconomic level, more happiness may come from a sustained growth in GDP that enables households to enjoy an improved quality of life, with rising income, consumption and employment opportunities.  At the microeconomic or individual level, more income may also enable people to live happier and fuller lives relative to those who are poor.  But this accounts for only a small contribution to happiness. Life circumstances, such as marital status, health, having children and the nature of the working environment statistically make a greater contribution to happiness than income.  

scholarly journals Role of Green Spaces for Maintaining Well-Being in Residential Community Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prashanti Rao
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Housing Demand ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Residential Communities ◽  
Positive Experiences

The planned green spaces are the most significant social spaces for people to interact on a daily basis and also considered as one of the sustainability indicators for maintaining the well-being in residential Communities. The benefits of green space for wellbeing are extensively recognized and progressively more documented. Due to increasing urbanization and housing demand, Residential communities are growing in suburbs and few in the urban core. Due to which depletion in per capita green space is recorded. This book chapter intends to look into the challenges of the residential communities and how Green Spaces (Passive and Active) within the communities helping in bringing back the quality of life and well-being. Further, it discusses the benefits of green spaces at the community level, through case studies. Conceptually this entire study propels the belief that the residential communities usually comprise of the varied age user group and all of them have the right to led a better quality of life. It can be possible only when they are accessible to green space and avail maximum perceived benefits like safety and security concerns, healthy environment, and social cohesion. Housing environments should enable residents to have positive experiences through the allocation of diverse green environments, which lead to physically and mentally happy, healthy living. Such positive experiences affect their happiness level, thus leading to sustainable lives.

scholarly journals Occupation Immersive

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryuki Han
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
3D Scanning ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Place ◽  
The Core ◽  
Spatial Quality

<p><b>In a working environment where employee poaching and regular staff turnovers are common, the culture of an office is at the core of company loyalty and organisationalsustainability. This being said, many companies still lack the knowledge andunderstanding of their own work place, resulting in a disconnected understanding of whatspatial qualities benefit employee well-being. This Thesis proposes an innovated and unprecedented methodology in which a deeper understanding between officeend user and work place are explored. Through the implementation of immersivevirtual technologies such as 3D scanning and virtual reality, a deeper understandingof the worker and workplace can be facilitated. Explored through literature, theabilities of immersive virtual technologies allow for the potential of an alternative spatialenvironment in which users inhabit space. This methodology, tested through a pilot and case study, concur the potential of extracting connections between users and space at both an emotional and technical level. As such, the resulting data informs the design proposals, creating solutions that are cultured by the emotional connections extracted between user and office, as well as the spatial qualities needed to promote wellbeing.</b></p> <p>The proposed research methodology fruitions the possibility to identify the intangible quality of office culture within existing work places, providing opportunities to improve the spatial quality and in turn enhance the well-being of the end users. Ultimately, providing ahigher and more tangible understanding between architect, client and workplace.</p>

Translation and Validation of the Facial Clinimetric Evaluation Scale to Spanish

2020 ◽  
pp. 019459982096962
Author(s):  
Leire Garcia-Iza ◽  
Carlos Miguel Chiesa-Estomba ◽  
Nuria Rosell-Romero ◽  
Eneritz Ibarguren-Esnal ◽  
Maria Soriano-Reixach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Validation Study ◽  
Facial Palsy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Pilot Test ◽  
Peripheral Facial Palsy ◽  
Face Scale ◽  
The Face

Objective Peripheral facial palsy is a disabling condition; thus, assessing its impact on quality of life is one of the greatest challenges within this discipline. The Facial Clinimetric Evaluation (FaCE) Scale has been validated for this purpose. The aim of this study is to translate and validate the Spanish version of the FaCE Scale. Study Design We performed a forward-backward translation of the original English FaCE Scale. A pilot test and a posterior prospective validation study were performed. Setting A pilot test and a posterior prospective validation study were conducted in a specialized facial palsy unit in a tertiary hospital. Methods A validation study was carried out in 85 patients to calculate the scale’s internal consistency and validity and to compare outcomes with the Sunnybrook Facial Grading System and the Facial Disability Index (FDI). Results Internal consistency was evaluated by Cronbach’s α coefficient, which showed a value of 0.841 (95% CI, 0.786-0.886). The total FaCE Scale score correlates well with the Sunnybrook, FDI physical function, and FDI social/well-being function scores: r = 0.773, r = 0.883, and r = 0.523, respectively. The FDI social/well-being function has the highest correlation with the FaCE Scale social function domain ( r = 0.595). Conclusion The Spanish version of the FaCE Scale demonstrated a high psychometric property that allows it to be used for clinical practice to assess the quality of life of Spanish-speaking patients with peripheral facial palsy.

The Participation of Biophilic Design in the Design of the Post-Pandemic Living Space

2022 ◽  
pp. 75-106
Author(s):  
Miray Gür ◽  
Timur Kaprol
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Biophilic Design ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Biophilic Elements

During the COVID-19 process, nature has been a place of escape regarding socialization and well-being. The aim of biophilic design, which supports physical and mental health in a fair and accessible way, is to evaluate the interaction with a healthy environment and to develop design proposals in this context. As a method, post-pandemic requirements, behaviors, and spatial scales are examined through a model in terms of biophilic design, and suggestions are made for the new normal by researching biophilic elements. The biophilic design provides the potential to use nature, daylight, air, and vitality as design elements to improve the quality of spaces and support the experiences of societies. Apart from including green spaces and ecosystems in the design, biophilic design can enrich the multisensory and multidimensional experiences both individually and socially by enabling users to participate in this experience. While this approach supports sound, healthy, and safe living spaces, it will also provide for cities to be sustainable and resilient.

The Association of Workplace Exposures on Quality of Life in Small and Medium Enterprises Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study in Four ASEAN Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marzuki Isahak ◽  
May Young Loh ◽  
Indri Hapsari Susilowati ◽  
Orawan Kaewboonchoo ◽  
Kitiphong Harncharoen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Workplace Conditions ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Quality of life is associated with several factors, including personal living styles and working conditions. This article aims to investigate the factors associated with quality of life among small and medium enterprises (SME) workers in 4 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. A total of 2014 workers from food and textile industries were asked to answer a questionnaire about their sociodemographic characteristics, working environment and conditions, and quality of life. Results from showed that lifestyle (ie, alcohol intake and exercising), working characteristics (ie, shift work, working hours, and working days) and workplace conditions were associated with SME workers’ quality of life (ie, physical, psychological, social, and environmental domain). Among the 16 types of workplace conditions, “sitting on the chair” and “slippery floor” most affect their quality of life . It is important for these variables to be taken into account in promoting workers’ well-being and quality of life.

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