The Happiness Agenda : A Modern Obsession / / by S. Burnett
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| Autore: |
Burnett Simon <1981->
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| Titolo: |
The Happiness Agenda : A Modern Obsession / / by S. Burnett
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 302/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Personnel management |
| Strategic planning | |
| Leadership | |
| Experimental economics | |
| Sociology | |
| Psychology, Industrial | |
| Human Resource Management | |
| Business Strategy and Leadership | |
| Experimental Economics | |
| Work and Organizational Psychology | |
| Classificazione: | BUS085000BUS097000PSY021000SOC026000 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Modern myths; Pursuing happiness; 1 The happy adventures of capital; The culture of capital: an overview; A reflexive complexity; The power of subjects and objects; (Too) fast subjects; The cultural circuits of happiness; 2 A happy policy; An ancient problem, and its modern fix; The utility of happiness; The utility of Utility; Historians repeat each other, history repeats itself; The political need for happiness; 3 Happiness loves company; Theoretical origins; A modern-day assumption; Happy workers? |
| Champions of the new human relations4 Positively happy; The Manhattan Project; Principles of positivity; Historical and conceptual origins; A mainstream counter-culture; 5 Happy days; Knowing happiness; The happy death of god; 6 Happiness needs practice; 7 Happy ever after?; References; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Explores why contemporary Anglo-American society is obsessed with happiness. Striving to be happy is now a morally imperative pursuit. Through the lens of novel social theory, this book explicates how this has transpired as consequence of a complex 'conspiracy of coordination' between political, organisational and psychological developments. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Happiness Agenda |
| ISBN: | 9786613360519 |
| 9781283360517 | |
| 1283360519 | |
| 9780230348417 | |
| 0230348416 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910957245603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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