Subjective well-being management in organizations: How to nurture, share and leverage positive emotions in the workplace

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K01906
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
• Research Institution: University 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) ; Orsini Philippe 日本大学, 経済学部, 教授 (70409093)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: emotional contagion / subjective well-being / workplace

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research investigates how companies can nurture the sharing of positive emotions among employees to promote workplace subjective well-being, an increasing important issue in today's environment of accelerating change. Furthermore, the study investigates the influence of national cultural with qualitative and quantitative studies in both Japan and France.

Free Research Field

Employee's subjective well-being

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

Emotional contagion in both the Japanese and French workplace was found to be primarily influenced by the level of familiarity, and to a lesser extent group climate.