Kaarina M√§√§tt√§

Satu Uusiautti

In this book, we introduce our research on success at work in a very broad sense. This research can be said to have begun during the fi rst years of this millennium.  Adjunct Professor Uusiautti fi rst focused on work drive in nurses and  midwives, expanding her analysis to Finnish Employees of the Year, while  Professor M√§√§tt√§ conducted her studies on love and human relationships. When  our specifi c research streams converged, we began studying positive development  in childhood and adolescence as well as in adulthood and later life. We even  managed to incorporate our ideas on leadership. Now, we think it is time to  compile our fi ndings into a psychology of success. In many parts of this book, we  will refer to the route to success ‚Äì we hope that this book will function as a signpost  showing the way to happiness-promoting success at work.  The standpoint in this book rests on psychology, particularly positive psychology.  This means that we deliberately aimed to combine the themes of work success  with fl ourishing and favourable development. Our purpose is to inspire and  challenge researchers and all those interested to examine the possibilities of this  positive approach and to consider this as one example of how to seize phenomena  that are diffi cult to defi ne comprehensively but, fi rst and foremost, we want them  to see the connection between success and happiness.

The Psychology of Becoming a Successful Worker

Kaarina M√§√§tt√§, Satu Uusiautti

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