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A comparative study on subjective well-being in organizations: How to nurture, share and leverage positive emotions in a remote work environment

Research Project

Project/Area Number 23K01530
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

Benton Caroline  筑波大学, ビジネスサイエンス系, 教授 (50520897)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) マニエー渡邊 レミー  筑波大学, ビジネスサイエンス系, 教授 (00527848)
内田 亨  新潟国際情報大学, 経営情報学部, 教授 (50453460)
Project Period (FY) 2023-04-01 – 2026-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
KeywordsSubjective well-being / Remote Work / Happiness / Work-place / Performance
Outline of Research at the Start

The outline of the research is (1) review literature, establish interview guidelines (themes, factors for investigation); (2) interview firms in Japan and France and produce qualitative case-studies;(3) develop hypotheses and a research model to investigate the questions below; (4) design and carry out a quantitative questionnaire; (5) conduct quantitative analyses and test hypotheses (research questions); and (6) provide policy recommendations for Japanese and French firms.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

The research team analyzed the quantitative and quality data that we collected for over 1,800 working professionals in Japan and France.
Emotional contagion in the Japanese workplace was found to be primarily influenced by the level of familiarity between sender and receiver, and to a lesser extent by the receiver’s emotional susceptibility, group climate, and the hierarchical difference between sender and receiver. Contrary to past research in other countries, several hypothesized predictors had little or no effect on emotional contagion among Japanese employees, such as communication frequency or empathy.
For the French workers, we found distinct elements that influence French employees’subjective well-being at work: corporate culture, job dissonance, relationships with colleagues, achievement, professional development, relationships with superiors, status, workload, perks, feedback, workspace, diversity and identified discrete antecedents for the three components of subjective well-being at work: work achievement and relationships with superiors and colleagues for positive emotions at work, job dissonance and workload for negative emotions at work and organizational culture and professional development for satisfaction with one’s work.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

The project is proceeding on time. We have had several papers on the same theme accepted for publication in the Academic Year 2023. We also presented at a peer-reviewed international conference where we received feedback. We have also submitted another paper to a another peer-reviewed international journal. We are now developinging the next quantitative survey which will be conducted in two countries later this year.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

We are continuing to review literature and will conduct interviews. We plan to conduct questionnaire surveys in France and Japan in September or October of this year. We will also present our preliminary findings later this year to receive additional feedback.

Report

(1 results)
  • 2023 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2024 2023

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Antecedents of Subjective Well-Being at Work - The Case of French Permanent Employees2024

    • Author(s)
      Orsini, Phiippe; Uchida, Toru; Magnier-Watanabe, Remy; Benton, Caroline; Nagata, K.
    • Journal Title

      Evidence-based Human Resource Management

      Volume: 2 Issue: 4 Pages: 1-23

    • DOI

      10.1108/ebhrm-04-2023-0092

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Emotional contagion at work in Japan predicated on familiarity2023

    • Author(s)
      Magnier-Watanabe, Remy; Benton, Caroline; Uchida, Toru; Orsini, Phiippe;
    • Organizer
      International Academy of Strategic Management
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2023-04-13   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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