Hybrid Happiness

Fun and Freedom in Flexible Work

Barbara Plester (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

116 Seiten

2025
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-981-95-2091-6 (ISBN)

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This book offers a unique exploration of the social and emotional impacts of working in new, flexible ways such as the increasingly popular hybrid work modes. With a specific focus on fun and play, the book is based on recent ethnographic research exploring how hybrid work has changed workplace behaviours and interactions, and how these social aspects of work are increasingly important in hybrid work. Fun and play are still happening but are occurring in new ways and forms as workers navigate fast-changing workscapes while still seeking happiness, frivolity, and laughter in their work relationships. The book presents current debates on these topics along with rich organisational (observed) examples, online chat, and interview excerpts from a variety of workers and managers.

Barbara Plester is Associate professor in the Department of Management and International Business (MIB) at the University of Auckland. She is also Associate Dean Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for her faculty. Her research explores workplace humour, fun, organizational culture, technological behaviour, food rituals and organizational life. She is currently researching the impact of hybrid work on fun and well-being. Within her department Barbara belongs to the Organisation Studies research group and she teaches critical management, people management and organizational theory at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her previous books include: The Complexity of Workplace Humour (Springer, 2016) and Laugh Out Loud (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

.- Chapter one The quest for happiness at work.

.- Chapter two Hybrid hijinks: Where flexibility meets workplace fun.

.- Chapter three Fun reimagined: People and culture in the hybrid workplace.

.- Chapter four Psychological safety in hybrid fun.

.- Chapter five The emotional landscape of hybrid work.

.- Chapter six Being happy and hybrid.

.- Chapter seven Tech-powered freedom.

.- Chapter eight Hybrid happily ever after?.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	4 Illustrations, color; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
Schlagworte	Changing nature of work • Emotional aspects of hybrid work • Fun in hybrid work • People and cultures at work • Psychological safety and hybrid work • Technology protocols at work • Well-being and work
ISBN-10	981-95-2091-6 / 9819520916
ISBN-13	978-981-95-2091-6 / 9789819520916
Zustand	Neuware