Increase Happiness Quotient to Decrese Worries

Increase happiness quotient to decrease worries

Today’s dire economic condition following all around recession has compelled the world to curtail its resources, which in turn, has proven a peril inviting factor. In the prevailing situation, organizations look for individuals who can work to the best of their ability and produce magnificent results. But, they tend to overlook the fact that people only can bring their best if they are physically and mentally content and joyful.

Everything dazzles on a shiny day, but turns pale in a murky atmosphere. All your endeavours can produce good results when the sailing is smooth. But the torrent of crisis makes them fruitless. It makes you watery and worsens your stance against the constraints. You may feel as if all your endeavours go astray, and your joy is mangled by distressful atmosphere. In such a scenario, it is extremely difficult to sustain balance between delightfulness and distressfulness.

But, it is not that much difficult to tone your thoughts through optimistic approach and stay cool to scatter smile and joy on your face. With controlled mind, it is possible to be happy even during the tough times created by odd circumstances. Conversely, period of crisis is perceived by a many as a blessing as they view such period as a time of bringing people together to put in their best efforts for development and growth collectively.


Difficult times bring in sweeping effects. However, companies can overcome and avoid succumb to the recession and remonstrating financial conditions only by way of innovation and adaptation. As per Dr. Teresa Amabile of Harvard “Creativity is positively associated with joy and love and negativity with anger, fear and anxiety.” Research shows that happy people are, by and large, pragmatic, receptive and also more optimistic. When the employees of an organization contrive agility based on their power of optimism, they always welcome changes. They never resist for changes rather they adopt and make best use of the same. Employees, who possess high degree of happiness quotient, also show excellence in their motivational power. Any sort of want does not cradle them. They are motivated and explore the opportunities in adversity. The gravity of situational doldrums arises out of environmental constraints, financial scarcity, etc., cannot dissuade them. They will always motivate themselves with all their mettle to overcome the obstacles. They are focused and committed to their goals and very keen and eager to put extra efforts to realize them. They settle the problem instead of whining and cursing the luck and lacks. These types of employees take fewer leaves, arouse when confronted with challenges and work beyond the scheduled timings. They do not need much coaching and counseling because they are energized, dedicated and good achievers. When people have abundance of happiness, they automatically mingle with others freely, able to extract work from them, and they extend their co-operation to others.

They are quick learners, their efficiency rate is above par and they take right decisions at right time. They are likely to shoulder all sorts of risks and responsibilities and in the eventuality anything goes wrong, they come forward and accept their mistakes instead of accusing others. In a murky situation, joyful do not alienate them and they seldom scorn others but show their alacrity to find out solutions to come out from the turmoil. By these virtues, they are more loyal, productive and engaged.

Happiness redresses stress and make desultory almost non-existence. Stress invariably increases the awesome despondency which ultimately provokes employees to commit mistakes, reduce productivity and bunk from the duties. The condition of mind under the influence of stress incites the erratic behavior of the employees which causes above syndrome and bring the detrimental effect to the growth both of the individuals and the organization. Employees besmeared with the happiness maintain their composures, take more work load and think and act smartly, which is the need of the hour. They are not at all haughty, on the contrary very deferential type. Moreover, they are salutary and cheerful. Happiness is a precursor to maintain a healthy and competitive working environment. During recession coupled with less working load, it is mostly observed that some employees prefer to saunter and just do nothing except to whistle down the mind. They mar the office environment with their unwanted eloquent talks putting their real personalities into oblivion, start fueling office politics which leads to skirmishes at times. Obviously, this increases stress and rekindles the work milieu. Fortunately, it is not that tough proposition to garner happiness. Any transnational, SME organization can achieve it, provided the management, its employees including managerial staff are determined to fulfill the commitment of tasks. To attain this, there must be a close relationship between the employees and the employers. The allusions of fear of any kind, particularly in the recession period must be allayed from the mind of the employees. The thought proposition of ‘Love your Work’ is to be percolated in the mind of each employee. When they believe this, they will take pride to do the work and their increased happy quotient in this way, will diminish their worries.

Managers and head of respective functions must put their efforts rigorously to keep their flocks of employees together, inform them the real facts and cheer them during recession and awkward situation. The main thrust should be the enforcement of strict discipline without which it is difficult to overcome the peril associated with the recessional working environment. Realistic target is to be set so that they are achievable. If the target by any chance is not possible to achieve, extra time schedule is to be allotted to fulfill the objective of course with a break in between. This strategic decision will increase the motivational power of the employees. They will be satisfied and their satisfaction level will zoom up their happiness which ultimately makes them agile and nimble to achieve the target even with little extra hours of efforts. During uproarious economic condition because of recession, the employees should be always made to feel valued. They must be treated as an asset and they are to be suitably rewarded for their efforts for producing results. Sometimes, if they resort to little bit tittles-tattles, the same should not be condemned very seriously and make the environment monstrous. Because this may endanger the hitherto congenial relationship between the manager and the employee in concern and evoke the stress. As long as the employees are delivering their duties in time, they should not be reprimanded and frowned for chatting with their coworkers. In fact, if employees are allowed to share their thoughts and feelings then the same is the most inexpensive way to improve upon their emotional bonding. Apart from making the work and workplace plausible, some small measures can be adopted to appease the employees so as to increase their happy quotient. Example, if big parties can not be arranged, small get together between the employees camaraderie can help. Then playing online games and sharing success stories of other employees and organisation will dazzle the faces with smile and cheers. All these small but quite effective actions invigorate the employees’ moral which develop their confidence level.

The more the employees are confident, the more their decisive power become steadfast and stern. And the consequence of this state of affairs is the phenomenal growth of the organization. Happiness is all together an attitude of an individual. So the course of actions, enunciated above with periodical motivational pep talk by the top management can help to keep up the happiness levels in employees to the highest level.



Joyfulness is the best medicine which cures all disorders whether physical or mental. It brings normalcy in the state of turmoil. This implies to personal, social and corporate life altogether. A happy employee contributes magnificently to the growth of an organisation. The self-generated natural happiness propels an employee to perform well. If all employees are filled with such cheerfulness, the organization’s growth is surely secured, and they become an asset of an organisation. But for this, a firm has to take necessary initiatives to create a state of happiness among the employees; this, in turn, will ascertain development of the organisation.


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