{"id":99,"date":"2010-11-13T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T04:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/?p=99"},"modified":"2010-11-13T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T04:16:48","slug":"the-pursuit-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/2010\/11\/13\/the-pursuit-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pursuit of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/files\/2010\/11\/1-pursuit-of-happyness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100\" title=\"1-pursuit-of-happyness\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/files\/2010\/11\/1-pursuit-of-happyness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/files\/2010\/11\/1-pursuit-of-happyness.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/files\/2010\/11\/1-pursuit-of-happyness-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent iClicker question:<\/p>\n<p>What motivates you?<\/p>\n<p>a. money<\/p>\n<p>b. fame<\/p>\n<p><strong><em> c. other<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among Sauder students, I was caught off guard by the fact that many people chose <em>c. other<\/em> as their answer. At the Sauder School of Business, I expected wealth and reputation to be the primary driving force. To my surprise, happiness is of higher <em>value<\/em> than many extrinsic rewards. This is a pleasant surprise because it shows that there is a <em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">human touch<\/span><\/em> to the field of business and that satisfaction is not measured by th<span style=\"color: #000000;\">e <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">digits<\/span><\/em><\/span> on a paycheque or the<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">figures<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> o<\/span>f an income statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This also sheds light on employee behaviour. Many employers tend to reduce turnover by increasing workers&#8217; benefits and adding zeros to their paycheques. What they overlook is that what gives someone a push may not have the same effect on another. Not everyone is driven by money or fame, and this should be considered when bosses try to boost job satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Money and fame are not always the driving force behind every action, every decision. Rather, <em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">happiness<\/span><\/em> is a long-term goal sought by many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent iClicker question: What motivates you? a. money b. fame c. other Among Sauder students, I was caught off guard by the fact that many people chose c. other as their answer. At the Sauder School of Business, I expected wealth and reputation to be the primary driving force. To my surprise, happiness is of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/opalleung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}