Chief Happiness Officer
Chief Happiness Officer (CHO) refers to an executive in a company in English-speaking countries . The CHO takes care of the well-being of employees on a strategic level . In France, too, many large companies employ a CHO (French: responsable du bonheur , literally: “person responsible for happiness”).
The social skills of a CHO include the ability to get the best out of people, to understand problems and to offer solutions that optimize well-being.
The task of the CHO is to make the well-being of the employees a strategic corporate goal. Studies show that satisfied employees are more productive than dissatisfied and thus contribute to the company's success. There are also CHOs with less demanding requirements. They "are a mixture of the well-known good soul, the caretaker and the personnel officer."
The establishment of the position of Chief Happiness Officer in a company has also come under fire. The economist Nicolas Bouzou and the philosopher Julia de Funès write: "The claim that happiness is a prerequisite for work is nothing but tyranny."
literature
- Gerardus Blokdyk: Chief Happiness Officer - A Complete Guide . 5starcooks, 2020. ISBN 978-1867315933 .
- Elke Van Hoof: The Chief Happiness Officer: Stappenplan voor een strategically welzijnsbeleid op het werk . Terra - Lannoo, 2017. ISBN 978-9401444491 .