Why you can and sometimes you need to come to work in a gloomy mood

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Progressive employers often believe that a productive successful team - is an office full of positive-minded, smiling people. However, the researchers came to the conclusion that, if forced employees to look more cheerful and happier than they feel really, you can achieve the opposite result - emotional exhaustion and withdrawal. Especially strongly this affects women, since most of them expect manifestations of happiness and joy.

Tyranny labor productivity

Craze positive working attitude appeared not so long ago under the influence of researchWhy Happy Employees Are 12% More Productive. the relation of productivity of employees with their good mood. It would seem that attempts to increase the satisfaction of employees should benefit both by the employees and management. However, the corporate strategy of happiness rather quickly lead to undesirable results.

Depending on where you work, trying to raise your morale may look different: from Friday pizza and finishing the requirements for service cafeteria workers to depict the joy from early morning until late into the night. In the long term, do not give such surface manipulative techniques, as will quickly become commonplace and cease to impress. Sometimes even really good intentions - such as

the opportunity to work from home- can lead to a weakening of the boundaries between work and private life. This is dangerous because an unofficial ban on personal emotions spread to all spheres of life.

The right balance can be been respected when the employer is trying to create a warm working atmosphere and at the same time realizes that employees have a life outside of work, which inevitably affects their mood. No need to put everything on the altar of productivity, losing respect for the private lives of employees.

The need to depict the joy for a long time is fraught with problems with physical and mental health, ranging from depression and ending with diseases of the cardiovascular system.

You can not be happier, constantly suppressing negative emotions.

The researchers concludedFor a Better Workday, Smile Like You Mean it. That stretched on duty smile spoils the mood of its owner, and may even lead to the fact that a person wants to quit the job. It has also been observed that women are given the suppression of negative emotions harder than men.

The benefits of gloomy

While positive increases productivity, irritability and skepticism, too, have a lot of advantages.

Discontent is a slight alarm that informs us that we are faced with an unfamiliar and potentially problematic situation. As a result, we unconsciously cause for concern and focus. Angry people tend to better distinguish between strong and weak arguments than neutrally tuned source. This is due to the fact that stimulation triggers analytical information processing.

Easy discouragement sometimes makes us more careful and attentive to detail. mood decline stimulates critical thinking and communication skills.

Anger can serve as an impetus to the search for innovative solutions. In small doses, anger stimulates creativity, and this is because in anger lies a lot of energy.

However, the surge of creativity, provoked anger is not always long. Anger - very exhausting emotion. Therefore angered people are able to generate interesting ideas quickly, but not for long.

Girl, smile

Unfortunately, gender inequality extends to the right to show their emotions. We often see grim men in senior positions. But women have to balance on a knife edge. On the one hand, few people want to be trusted responsible job too emotional lady. Thus, a group of researchers at Munich Technical UniversityKey to promotion for women: do not smile. It found that women emit excessive cheerfulness, less likely to receive high-level positions. On the other hand, aggressive impenetrable careerist too unlikely to be successful with the team, the authorities and business partners.

Naked ambition and failure to be "agreeable" - is a luxury that few can afford working women.

Women who suppress their true emotionsOften feel unhappy. This is especially common in the sphere of workers customer service and support.

Efforts that women in these areas have to spend to control their own emotions in order to create the right mood in others, called emotional labor. By and large, this means double duty: not only are they technically perform their duties, but also to exploit their femininity.

Emotional burden of labor lies primarily on the representative of the working class. Highly qualified female employees easier to win the right to the gloom, than women in the service sector.

Game into a positive is not worth the candle

All the staff (and especially women) benefit when their emotional state is not dictated by the leadership, and when they do not try to manipulate for profit company.

Whatever efforts are not doing their best leaders to set up a team to the positive, in the long run, this one does not make work faster and better. Sullen professional is not inferior Funny professional, and it is certainly worth more than satisfied amateur.