TY - JFULL AU - B. Gangloff and N. Malleh PY - 2016/1/ TI - French Managers and Their Subordinates’ Well-Being T2 - International Journal of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences SP - 3786 EP - 3790 VL - 10 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10005788 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 120, 2016 N2 - Well-being at work has many positive aspects. Our general hypothesis is that employees who feel well-being at work will be positively valued by their superiors, and that this positive value, which evokes the concept of social norms, allows us to assign to well-being at work a normative status. Three populations (line managers, students destined to become human resource managers, and employees) responded to a well-being questionnaire. Managers had to indicate, for each item, if they appreciated (or not) an employee feeling the well-being presented in the item; students had to indicate which items an employee should check if s/he wants to be positively (versus negatively) appreciated by his/her superior; and employees had to indicate to what degree each item corresponded to the well-being they used to feel. Three hypotheses are developed and confirmed: Managers positively value employees feeling some sense of well-being; students are aware of this positivity; spontaneously employees show a state of well-being, which means, knowing that spontaneous self-presentation is often produced by social desirability, that employees are aware of the well-being positivity. These data are discussed under a conceptual and applied angle. ER -