Human Relations special issue call for papers. The life of a happy worker: examining short-term fluctuations in employee happiness and well-being

The main objective of this special issue is to publish a coherent set of theoretical and empirical studies that explain happiness fluctuations in a worker’s life. We define happiness as a broad, positive well-being state (ranging from positive emotions to job satisfaction, health, and work engagement) that may vary within the same person over short periods of time (e.g., days, weeks, or months). We are interested in studies that focus on short-term, within-person fluctuations in well-being indicators, situational and personal determinants of these fluctuations, relations with other-ratings or objective indicators of job performance, potential positive spillover effects from work to other domains in an employee’s daily life, as well as crossover effects of positive states from the employee to significant others. In this context, we welcome daily, weekly or monthly diary studies that stem from different organizational disciplines (e.g., psychology, sociology, management).