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Volume 5, Issue 4
1 April 1993
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Employee Counselling Today
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Research Article| April 01 1993

Enjoyment in Employment: HOW TO UTILIZE THE POWER OF LAUGHTER, HUMOUR AND A WINNING SMILE AT WORK

Robert Holden
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-5614
Print ISSN: 0955-8217
© MCB UP Limited
1993
Employee Counselling Today (1993) 5 (4): 17–20.
https://doi.org/10.1108/13665629310044721

Enjoyment in employment is an essential ingredient of creative growth, innovative development and happy enterprise. This concept– Laughter Theory – is based on four key principles –Human resources, humour resources: Work is a glorious “GO”– Goldmine Opportunity; Work is a form of play; Happy people produce happy results.

Keywords: Empowerment, Innovation, Motivation, Productivity
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