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## Marisa Salanova: "The challenge is to connect people with the fundamental values of an organization"

27/10/2017 |
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The professor of Positive Organizational Psychology at Universitat Jaume I, Marisa Salanova, presented with the Alfonso Garrido-Lestache, director of Human Resources of the Hospital of Manises, the keys to work engagement at a breakfast organized by the Spanish Association of Directors (AED) in Valencia.

In her speech, Marisa Salanova, said that one of the great challenges of the company lies in "connecting people with the fundamental values ​​of an organization", something that translates into improvements such as service quality, less accidents at work, less absenteeism or more innovative behavior. Salanova, who has been presented by the moderator of the act Montse Sans, as the "main reference in positive psychology of Spain", has analyzed how engagement affects the generation of happier and more productive workers. In his speech, he offered some suggestions to develop these connections at work through interventions from positive psychology, based on "knowing what makes organizations happy and how they do it." "Our mission is to develop organizations that are becoming healthier and more resilient," he said.

"A happy worker is not only the one who is not burned, but the one who is passionate about his work and his way of life," Salanova has advanced, as he has outlined some profiles of workers in which he shows a higher level of engagement at work. Thus, as we get older, happiness increases at work, in both sexes alike, depending on the type of work performed, as they show better levels in managerial positions, entrepreneurs and jobs related to agriculture or health. "These professions share concepts such as autonomy", one of the motors of a worker involved, in which other characteristics such as "being active and proactive, being able to generate their own feedback, have values ​​that fit the organization, to want to work but without being an addict and to be proactive also outside the work ".

Both speakers have welcomed the fact that more and more companies are committed to promoting labor resources that increase engagement, a concept that "can be developed in any area, although not all organizations are mature to do so," Salanova said. In promoting this positive work environment, studies presented at work breakfast show concepts such as autonomy, love of peers, learning opportunities, good practices, leadership and personal factors such as self-efficacy, optimism, positive emotions, resilience, post-traumatic growth or liability.

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