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Happiness Management: A Lighthouse for Social Wellbeing, Creativity and Sustainability

by Rafel Ravina (Volume editor) Luis Bayardo Tobar Pesántez (Volume editor) José Marchena Dominguez (Volume editor)
©2019 Monographs 238 Pages

Summary

The mystery of happiness has occupied human beings from ancient times until the present day. Philosophers, economists, historians, artists, and psychologists have offered different definitions of what happiness is and how to measure and develop it in various fields.
In this regard, the group of researchers from six countries: Spain, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom, Brazil and Equador, present their fourth joint work in this new book titled »Happiness Management: A Lighthouse for Social Wellbeing, Creativity and Sustainability«, which contains twelve contibutions about different knowledge areas, all based on the approach to happiness.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the editors
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • First chapter. The role of social networks in academic performance and perception of corporate happiness of students from the University of Cádiz (Rafael Ravina-Ripoll / Eduardo Ahumada-Tello / Araceli Galiano-Coronil)
  • Second chapter. Keys to improving effectiveness in work teams: Communication and emotionality as the key to happiness management (Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez / Bárbara Castillo-Abdul)
  • Third chapter. Happy and ethical consumption in a globalized world (Estela Núñez-Barriopedro / Carolina Martínez-Infante Salazar / Luis Bayardo Tobar-Pesántez)
  • Fourth chapter. What is more creative than advertising? We spread happiness and fidelity through sports (Pedro Cuesta-Valiño / Azucena Penelas-Leguía / Lorena Bezares)
  • Fifth chapter. Solving the puzzle of happiness at work: New trends and opportunities for future research (Andrés Salas Vallina / Alma Rodríguez Sánchez)
  • Sixth chapter. The development of creativity through mindfulness: Applications in the history of art (Antonio Rafael Fernández Paradas)
  • Seventh chapter. Talent management and competitive advantage: An integrative reflection towards employee well-being (Manoli Pozo Hidalgo / Rafael Fernandez Guerrero / Richard D. Evans)
  • Eight chapter. Happiness and environmental sustainability: Rediscovering nature from the past to the present (José Marchena Domínguez)
  • Ninth Chapter. Happiness, territory and sustainable wellbeing in the OCDE countries (María Adelina Georgina Cortés Sierra / María Jesús Delgado Rodríguez / Manuela Ortega Gil)
  • Tenth chapter. From creativity to innovation by knowledge re-combining. The case of an Italian food company (Cristina Simone / Marcelo Enrique Conti)
  • Eleventh chapter. Fostering creative and intrapreneurial behaviours through human resource practices: A human centered perspective (Lorenzo Revuelto-Taboada / Teresa Canet-Giner / Francisco Balbastre-Benavent)
  • Twelfth chapter. Measure of the subjective well-being, through the satisfaction, in the rural tourism. Relations with the destination image and the new intentions to visit the place again (Azucena Penelas-Leguía / José María López-Sanz / Pablo Gutiérrez R
  • Notes on Contributors

Rafel Ravina Ripoll / Luis Bayardo Tobar Pesántez /
José Marchena Dominguez (eds)

Happiness Management:
A Lighthouse for
Social Wellbeing, Creativity
and Sustainability

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This publication has been funded by the
Universidad Politécnica Salesiana del Ecuador.

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ISBN 978-3-0343-3628-4 (Print)

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DOI 10.3726/b15813

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About the editors

Rafael Ravina Ripoll is a Business Organization professor at Cádiz University and coordinator of the Iberoamerican Group of Multidisciplanary Studies on Happiness in the Salesian Politecnic University of Ecuador. His research and publications focus on happiness management.

Luis Tobar teaches and researches in the areas of SMEs and is coordinator of the Iberoamerican Group of Multidisciplanary Studies on Happiness in the Salesian Politecnic University of Ecuador. His research interests also include finace and credit.

José Marchena Dominguez holds a doctorate in Contemporary History from the University of Cádiz where he is a full professor. He specializes in the History of ideas, society and culture.

About the book

The mystery of happiness has occupied human beings from ancient times until the present day. Philosophers, economists, historians, artists, and psychologists have offered different definitions of what happiness is and how to measure and develop it in various fields.

In this regard, the group of researchers from six countries: Spain, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom, Brazil and Ecuador, present their fourth joint work in this new book titled “Happiness Management: A Lighthouse for Social Wellbeing, Creativity and Sustainability”, which contains twelve contibutions about different knowledge areas, all based on the approach to happiness.

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Rafael Ravina-Ripoll, Eduardo Ahumada-Tello and Araceli Galiano-Coronil

First chapter. The role of social networks in academic performance and perception of corporate happiness of students from the University of Cádiz

Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez and Bárbara Castillo-Abdul

Second chapter. Keys to improving effectiveness in work teams: Communication and emotionality as the key to happiness management

Estela Núñez-Barriopedro, Carolina Martínez-Infante Salazar and Luis Bayardo Tobar-Pesántez

Third chapter. Happy and ethical consumption in a globalized world

Pedro Cuesta-Valiño, Azucena Penelas-Leguía and Lorena Bezares

Fourth chapter. What is more creative than advertising? We spread happiness and fidelity through sports

Andrés Salas Vallina and Alma Rodríguez Sánchez

Fifth chapter. Solving the puzzle of happiness at work: New trends and opportunities for future research

Antonio Rafael Fernández Paradas

Sixth chapter. The development of creativity through mindfulness: Applications in the history of art←5 | 6→

Manoli Pozo Hidalgo, Rafael Fernandez Guerrero
and Richard D. Evans

Seventh chapter. Talent management and competitive advantage: An integrative reflection towards employee well-being

José Marchena Domínguez

Eight chapter. Happiness and environmental sustainability: Rediscovering nature from the past to the present

María Adelina Georgina Cortés Sierra, María Jesús Delgado Rodríguez and Manuela Ortega Gil

Ninth Chapter. Happiness, territory and sustainable wellbeing in the OCDE countries

Cristina Simone and Marcelo Enrique Conti

Tenth chapter. From creativity to innovation by knowledge re-combining. The case of an Italian food company

Lorenzo Revuelto-Taboada, Teresa Canet-Giner and Francisco Balbastre-Benavent

Eleventh chapter. Fostering creative and intrapreneurial behaviours through human resource practices: A human centered perspective

Azucena Penelas-Leguía, José María López-Sanz and Pablo Gutiérrez Rodríguez

Twelfth chapter. Measure of the subjective well-being, through the satisfaction, in the rural tourism. Relations with the destination image and the new intentions to visit the place again

Notes on Contributors←6 | 7→

Contributors

Ph.D. Alma Mª Rodriguez Sánchez

Universitat Jaume I (Spain)

Ph.D. Andrés Salas-Vallina

University of Valencia (Spain)

Ph.D. Antonio Rafael Fernández

University of Granada (Spain)

Details

Pages
238
Publication Year
2019
ISBN (PDF)
9783034338547
ISBN (ePUB)
9783034338554
ISBN (MOBI)
9783034338561
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034336284
DOI
10.3726/b15813
Language
English
Publication date
2019 (July)
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2019. 238 pp., 10 fig. col., 13 fig. b/w, 33 tables

Biographical notes

Rafel Ravina (Volume editor) Luis Bayardo Tobar Pesántez (Volume editor) José Marchena Dominguez (Volume editor)

Rafael Ravina Ripoll is a Business Organization professor at Cádiz University and coordinator of the Iberoamerican Group of Multidisciplanary Studies on Happiness in the Salesian Politecnic University of Ecuador. His research and publications focus on happiness management. Luis Tobar teaches and researches in the areas of SMEs and is coordinator of the Iberoamerican Group of Multidisciplanary Studies on Happiness in the Salesian Politecnic University of Ecuador. His research interests also include finace and credit. José Marchena Dominguez holds a doctorate in Contemporary History from the University of Cádiz where he is a full professor. He specializes in the History of ideas, society and culture.

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