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Love means deep caring for others and it makes life worth living, in other words, love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. Furthermore, love can be seen as a virtue or strength representing human kindness, compassion, and affection (e.g., Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005) and it has many definitions. What about love for work? Is it “love” and how could it be defined? Not only spend people a substantial portion of their life at work but some of them also enjoy working and are enthusiastic about it. Love for work can be fascinating and liberating or oppressive and compelling. Love for work may develop into an addiction but it can provide enormous satisfaction as well. More often, however, we tend to situate love in other areas of life than in work. Today’s working life poses continuous efficiency and development pressures to all employees regardless of the occupation.
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- Positive Emotion
- Emotional Intelligence
- Transformational Leader
- Organizational Citizenship Behavior
- Positive Psychology
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Määttä, K., Uusiautti, S. (2013). Love for work as the Way Toward Well-Being. In: Määttä, K., Uusiautti, S. (eds) Many Faces of Love. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-206-8_11
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