Taking in the good: How to facilitate savoring in work organizations

Recognizing, enhancing, and appreciating positive experiences in our lives, also known as savoring, has many benefits. Research on savoring suggests that practicing savoring is linked to positive outcomes, such as increased happiness and general well-being. Organizations should be aware of the positive implications of practicing savoring and should seek to develop savoring norms, as this can contribute to organizational success. This article discusses the savoring of positive experiences and its application in the workplace. Specifically, this article will provide an overview of strategies aimed at enhancing savoring, as well as past research findings that highlight the utility of these strategies. Different barriers and solutions to savoring are discussed, in addition to the importance of the context in cultivating savoring norms in the workplace.     

How looking forward over the short period to-go affects consumer enjoyment: Role of temporal scarcity in access-based services

Access-based services (ABS) have shown tremendous growth recently. We examine the relationship between service period framing and consumers’ anticipated ABS enjoyment. Four scenario-based experiments revealed that focus frame of the service period affected anticipated enjoyment of upcoming ABS experiences and this effect is mediated by perceived temporal scarcity. We also examine the moderating role of perceived product benefits, indicating that this mediated focus-frame effect is amplified among consumers tending to pursue hedonic benefits from the borrowed goods. Lastly, we confirm the anticipated enjoyment’s mediating role on the relationship between focus frame and consumers’ positive behaviors and attitudes toward ABS.