Happy Native

Probably when we hear the word of `creativity`,  workplace is not the first thing comes to our minds. Despite this we also know, it is a desired `feature´ of a candidate or an employee. I will not discuss here if employees have the space to be creative at work or not. I would like to talk about a way to increase our creativity. Mariyl Oppezzo and Daniel Schwartz published a research in 2015 focusing on the relationship between walking and creativity. How does it sound ? I really like the research design and the results. Without going into the details, let me give you an overview. They measured the creativity with participants` ideas on using common objects in alternative ways. Appropriate novelty was the criteria. Participants were assigned in different groups with different conditions and orders of walking and sitting. The results showed that participants who were walking were significantly more creative than the ones who were sitting (This is of course a super br...

What comes to your mind when you think about trust?  A romantic relationship?  A friendship?  Or your relationship with your colleagues? I think this one would not be your first guess.. In the past, trust at the workplace was not really a focus for companies however nowadays organizational trust takes up a very important space on managers' and employees' desks. Organizational trust, we use it so often or not, is something in the middle of every employee's work life.Since the topic is very essential, it has been investigated by many researchers from different fields. Honestly, it really took an effort and a while to come to a conclusion. Well, here it is: It may not look very appealing. Let me try to explain it in a better way based on Davis and Mayer`s (1995) definition. In case of organizational trust, trustors trust to the trustees even though they cannot keep an eye on their actions. The important thing is these actions ,most of the time, are ...

Imagine you are not happy at work. Probably, all the trouble would already begin on Sunday afternoon: “I don´t want to woooork :((.`Not being able to enjoy the last day of the weekend because of the stress `Monday` causes. Then, in the morning you would shuffle to get to the work. You would not be able to focus, you would maybe do your work cursory and you would just count down the hours. Does not sound very nice, right? Maybe you already experience these things or you are happy but you want to be much happier. Well, there are some solutions to help you to achieve this! There are many articles on this hot topic and of course many suggestions on how to increase your level of happiness at work. Here is a summary of some suggestions that would make you feel happy or happier: Use the last five minutes: I am pretty sure, most of you heard about this “making the bed in the morning” thing. When you do that, you feel much nicer when you are back home, right? So, you need s...