How Can Career Planning Enhance Happiness?

A study of the factors contributing to the formation of sustained high performance workforce shows that in the long run, happy employees are more productive than unhappiness employees. They will go to work on time, are unlikely to resign, take the initiative to do things outside the scope of their duties, and they will attract people who are equally committed to the work. The performance of employees with happiness is 16% higher than that of all employees, 125% of job burnout, 32% of loyalty to the organization and 46% of their job satisfaction. (from Harvard Business Review). What is happiness? Positive psychologist Seligman divides the source of happy life into three parts, the first is interest, second is the flow experience, the third is meaning, and meaning has the greatest impact on happy life.

that Occupation How does career planning promote employee happiness?

1., when employees are in their careers. Plan It will be able to have a deeper understanding of oneself and help him understand and develop his interests in his work. Someone will say, if he happens to have no job at present. Interest How to do it? There are two ways. One is to stimulate interest by understanding the meaning of his career. Secondly, if he can not really arouse his interest in the job, can he have good performance? The answer is no, so helping him turn to other jobs may be a better choice, in fact, it also helps enterprises reduce the risk of employing.

2. after in-depth self-knowledge, employees can analyze their skills and advantages and disadvantages from more angles and more objectively, including correctly assessing the results of performance appraisal. Employees will know how to play their own advantages in their work and lead to selfless flow experience. Employees' job performance is often linked to their weaknesses, but employees often overestimate their performance. If they understand the relationship between job performance and their own strengths and weaknesses, they will become more objective.

3. career planning helps employees integrate individual career development into organizational goals, connect personal vision and performance goals, set up a common development Scorecard and personal plan, transform the pressure of organizational performance goals to staff pressure into a dashboard for employees' self growth, so that work will bring more meaning to employees, employees will have more happiness, change their employees from passive "want me to do" to active "I want to do", and at the same time, actively improve their work skills and performance in order to achieve their goals.

4. when encountering setbacks, employees will have more powerful impact resistance and more optimism because they have a better understanding of their abilities and understand the meaning of work.

5. on the basis of self cognition, employees will further understand the difference between people and enhance interpersonal sensitivity, which will play a positive role in promoting teamwork, communication between staff and departments, and help employees achieve the meaning of work and further promote employee well-being.

When employees give more meaning to their careers, they will be full of vitality, passion and motivation. On the other hand, although meaning has the greatest impact on employee well-being, the three parts of interest, flow experience and meaning promote each other.

Finally, let's make a point that when talking about how to help employees in career planning, many people talk more about the promotion of employees and the ability to develop them. In fact, promotion channels will change, especially in some imperfect companies. At the same time, there are many uncertainties in this era. A clear promotion channel is good, but in fact, it is more important for employees to understand the meaning of work to themselves and at the same time to know how to use their abilities to cope with the unknown. In this way, when a job or company is faced with unforeseen difficulties, employees will be more aware of themselves and be responsible for themselves, and will have more powerful energy and power. Therefore, in the guidance and training of employees' career planning, we should pay more attention to the internal changes of employees, the promotion of their own growth and organizational goals, not just the external organizational structure.

Therefore, the implementation of career planning in the organization will enhance the happiness of employees, make employees energetic and full of ambition and passion for work.