Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

Pravakar Duari ¹, Surendra kumar Sia ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, IN

Abstract

Happiness is a holistic ideal. It speaks to the person that his/her life is complete in the sense that his/her reasonable desires are fulfilled over his/her life time. According Mayer and Diner (1995), happiness may be defined as the experience of frequent positive affect, infrequent negative affect and overall senses of satisfaction with life as a whole. Gandhiji mentions that "the people became happy when what they think, what they say and what they do is a harmony situation". Workplace happiness is not just a feel good thing- it really matters in hard, financial term. Workplace happiness is a key factor in motivation and productivity. It's hard to get much dynamism, efficiency and enthusiasm from someone who is unhappy. However, workplace happiness is even more important in retaining key people within an organization. . Happy at work is crucial both to the employee and to the company. People will spend more of their adult life on their job than on anything else. People's work will take up more of their time than their families, friends and hobbies combined. It would be nicer if that time is spent at a job that actually makes them happy. Happy people and happy company can create a lot of good things such as increasing productivity, quality, sales, customer satisfaction, creativity, innovation, adaptation, flexibility, and decreasing loss, absenteeism, stress of workers, accidents and occupational diseases. So, quality organization starts with quality personnel, not quality machine or quality office. Quality personnel are personnel with knowledge, competence, creativity, virtue and happiness.

Keywords

Happiness, Productivity, Organization, Absenteeism

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R. Archana ¹, Surendra Kumar Sia ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Clinical Psychology SRM University, Chennai, IN
2 Department of Applied Psychology Pondicherry University. Puducherry, IN

Abstract

Humans have the innate capacity to understand emotions conveyed even in unfamiliar music and the earliest form of human exposure to music is maternal singing of lullabies. In this study music has been used as a medium to pacify restless infants before sleep and in their conditions like anger and attention seeking. Two groups of infants between 4-10 months of age were observed for their responses to lullaby and play-song respectively. They were observed over a week with and without using music and time taken to calm down was noted in each condition. Results suggest that music has a positive effect in pacifying infants

Keywords

Positive Music, Child

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Sudarshan R. Kottai ¹, Surendra Kumar Sia ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Clinical Psychology, LGBR Institute of Mental Health (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India), Tezpur, IN
2 Department of Applied Psychology Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, IN

Abstract

Police is the first step in the ladder of the criminal justice system who are responsible for upholding the human rights of each and every citizen. Hence, effective policing is imperative for the implementation of law and order and in building up of an institution of justice. Indian policing needs to undergo a sea change in order to redress the grievances of common people in more democratic and humane way without regard to their affiliations and selfish motives.A police officer to be genuine in his conduct should necessarily be a good human being. She/he should a person of ideas, vision and philosophy characterised by a sense of empathy and moral values. A Civilian police officer should be very patient in hearing the complaints of the public and should be able to put his/her into the psychological shoes of another and experience what the client is experiencing to execute positive action. At the same time he should maintain unconditional positive regard towards the perpetrators so that he could act as an instrument of change in the perpetrator in motivating himself towards progressive change. In every organisation the human element is the most pivotal part. For policing to be successful and result-oriented, first of all the personnel's personality features should match with what is demanded by the job rather than modernising it with most modern sophisticated investigative machineries. For this, psychometric testing to assess personality has to be included as part of police selection and training in the field of positive psychology, spirituality, empathy training,counselling skills also should be part of the continuous modernisation programme. The evergrowing science of psychology has to be utilised to make our police the best in the world for Swami Vivekananda said "Psychology is the science of the sciences."

Keywords

Democratic Policing, Psychological Perspective

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