2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
A comparative study on subjective well-being in organizations: How to nurture, share and leverage positive emotions in a remote work environment
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23K01530
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
Benton Caroline 筑波大学, ビジネスサイエンス系, 教授 (50520897)
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| 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)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-04-01 – 2026-03-31
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| Keywords | Subjective well-being / Remote Work |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The research team plans to conduct a large survey in the Academic Year 2024. To develop the survey, we will be traveling overhears. Furthermore the conducting the large survey in both Japan and France will require us to divert funds to the AY 2024.
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