{
  "title": "Wellbeing surveys: should a positive mood become a target?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/barometre-bien-etre-bonne-humeur-objectif-zurich-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2024-08-10",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Measuring wellbeing can help improve working conditions. Making a positive emotional outcome a managerial expectation raises a different question.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Emotional Intelligence",
  "place": {
    "name": "Zurich",
    "region": "Zurich",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Iris B."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Accepting an emotion rather than achieving a state",
      "point": "Brett Q."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that satisfaction surveys or wellbeing initiatives should be abandoned."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot establish",
      "point": "These studies assess neither [emotional intelligence](/formation-intelligence-emotionnelle-zurich) training nor a management policy in a Zurich company."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Zurich",
      "point": "Within SHR's Emotional Intelligence programme, a proposed exercise for managers in financial services, insurance, tech and the European headquarters of international groups in Zurich is to audit discussions of the next survey's results."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Savino",
      "year": "2011",
      "source": "Emotion"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Mauss",
      "year": "2018",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 415,
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    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/barometre-bien-etre-bonne-humeur-objectif-zurich-it"
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  "relatedPages": {
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    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/zurich",
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}