This essay focuses on various components to achieve a desired state. In this section you will learn about the importance of happiness

various components to achieve a desired state

Read Chapter 8 pages 234-246 in your On Course textbook. In this section you will learn about the importance of happiness and various strategies to increase happiness. In this activity, you will experiment with one strategy intended to increase happiness.

an action that managers take to attain one or more of the organization’s goals. Strategy can also be defined as “A general direction set for the company and its various components to achieve a desired state in the future. Strategy results from the detailed strategic planning process”.

A strategy is all about integrating organizational

activities and utilizing and allocating the scarce resources within the organizational environment so as to meet the present objectives. While planning a strategy it is essential to consider that decisions are not take in a vaccum and that any act taken by a firm is likely to be met by a reaction from those affect, competitors, customers, employees or suppliers.

Strategy can also be define as knowledge of the goals, the uncertainty of events and the need to take into consideration the likely or actual behavior of others. Strategy is the blueprint of decisions in an organization that shows its objectives and goals, reduces the key policies, and plans for achieving these goals, and defines the business the company is to carry on, the type of economic and human organization it wants to be, and the contribution it plans to make to its shareholders, customers and society at large.

Assignment:

Watch the video An Experiment in Gratitude-The Science of Happiness.
Gratitude Letter: Write a letter to someone who has been an important and positive influence in your life. Pick someone to whom you have never fully expressed your gratitude. In the letter, explain specifically and completely what this person did that you appreciate… and how the kindness has positively affected your life. You may choose to share your letter with the person at a later time.