With the increase in population that separates ‘work’ from ‘life’, as if work is absence of life, it becomes increasingly important to study about what happiness means to people at work, so that they can be made to feel alive in their offices too. This session is aimed at introducing two interesting research studies that aimed to do just that.
This session does not just explain these two research works but also will find the commonalities between these and will engage the audience with discussions using leading questions, thereby bringing out personal examples that they can relate to. This session will also help us understand if Business Agility keeps us happy in the true sense.
15. What is common among these three?
● We don’t consciously realize the passage of time
● We have a good time engaging in these activities - We feel good while
we do them.
● We experience a state of FLOW
17. What are the conditions necessary to induce a
state of FLOW?
Interesting & Clear Goals Frequent Feedback Manageable Challenges
Finished Task with Visible
Progress
Increase in Skill
Level
Satisfaction
20. What is common among these logos?
● Voluntary contribution without remuneration (Not salaried employees)
● Why do people contribute their expertise and time without any
benefit?
● If they don’t derive happiness from this activity, why would they do it?
25. Does Agility Make us Happy?
Factor Agile Product
Development
Conditions for Flow
Clear Goals
Frequent Feedback
Manageable Challenges
Drive - Personal Satisfaction
Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
26. Does Business Agility Make us Happy?
Factor Agile Product
Development / IT
Business Agility
Conditions for Flow
Clear Goals
Frequent Feedback
Manageable Challenges
Drive - Personal Satisfaction
Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
27. What did we learn?
● Work-life balance
○ Bad narrative - Life at Work matters!
● Flow - Happiness as +ve
Engagement
○ Flow as a state of happiness
○ Pre-conditions of Flow
● Drive - Happiness as Personal
Satisfaction
○ Extrinsic Motivation - Carrots & Sticks
○ Intrinsic Motivation - Autonomy,
Mastery & Purpose
● Does Agility make us happy?
○ More happiness if entire business is
agile not just IT / Product Development
Happiness as positive
engagement
Happiness as personal
satisfaction