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Gratitude has an important role in the workplace. It has been shown to raise positive emotion, an important determiner of efficiency, success, productivity and employee loyalty.
Employee happiness and well being are positively associated with performance, morale, commitment and negatively associated with absenteeism, turnover and burnout.
Some of the power of gratitude in organizations may stem from its ability to offset toxic workplace negativity. By experiencing gratitude, a person may be able to control anger, envy or other destructive emotions.
The quality of gratitude can be both a state and a trait. Meaning, some people only express gratitude from time-to-time, as a short-term response to specific events or episodes. For example, you thank your co-worker for buying you a cup of coffee. In this way, gratitude can be described as a trait.
Yet for others, gratitude may reoccur more as a consistent personality strength or trait. These are individuals who rise in the morning, grateful to be alive. They just seem naturally hardwired to be appreciative as their default approach to life. As you will learn, both the “state” and “trait” conditions of gratitude are equally valid ways of promoting well-being.
Real gratitude though transcends a simple behavioral reflex. There is an emotional component to the quality that must be present for it to be authentic. In other words, gratitude is something that is not just said, but it is felt.
