Learn This Japanese Word 'Ikigai'

in life •  7 years ago  (edited)

Ikigai is a Japanese word whose meaning translates roughly to a reason for being, encompassing joy, a sense of purpose and meaning and a feeling of well-being.

In business, the incorporation of the elements of ikigai to an employee's position is thought to yield the highest levels of employee engagement and productivity while also fostering job satisfaction and loyalty to the organization.

One can fin his own IKIGAI through examining your responses to four questions:

What do you love?

What are you good at?

What can you be paid for?

What does the world need?

Finding where these components interlap yields IKIGAI

Such processes of inquiry may be applied by an entrepreneur to determine the kind of startup that will be most satisfying for them. In the workplace, ikigai may seem like an unrealistic ideal.

However, those questions can be adopted to guide employee management. It's entirely practical, for example, to ensure that employees are in the positions in an organization for which they are best suited.

Likewise, it's a good practice to find out what employees truly care about and discover ways that they can make meaningful contributions.


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thank you for your interesting post, now im following you!

It's nice that there are such wonderful words that have that much of information to it. another word that reminds me of this is Ubuntu, it's an african word and it means "a quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity."