Table_1_Musicdrops@work: Impact of Shared Listening to Short Live Music Interventions on Sense of Belonging and Subjective Wellbeing at Work.pdf

Assuming live music can foster belonging in the workplace, this study linked companies in the secondary and tertiary sectors with the world of music performance. Specifically, students from a Swiss music university offered live mini-concerts (10 min of classical music) on the premises of three companies over a period of 3 months. To analyze the impact of these brief musical interventions on the sense of belonging of staff in these companies, a mixed methods approach was adopted using a standardized questionnaire (Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire, a short online questionnaire on the appreciation of the music and the emotional state induced, and focus groups interviews at the end of the experiment). The short concerts were much appreciated. On the individual level, they led to a greater sense of pleasure and were perceived as a break, a possibility to connect to one’s emotions and above all, as a “moment for oneself.” On the group level, the short concerts allowed the members of teams to meet, prompted conversations and new ways of sharing, created links, and offered opportunities to get to know work colleagues differently and to discover them on a more personal level.本研究假设现场音乐可培育职场归属感，由此将第二、第三产业的企业与音乐演出领域建立联结。具体而言，来自瑞士某音乐院校的学生在为期3个月的周期内，于三家企业的办公场地举办了时长10分钟的古典音乐现场迷你音乐会。为分析这类简短音乐干预对上述企业员工归属感的影响，本研究采用混合研究方法，所用工具包括标准化问卷（巴塞罗那音乐奖励问卷，Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire：一款用于评估音乐鉴赏水平及诱发情绪状态的简短在线问卷），以及实验结束后开展的焦点小组访谈。本次迷你音乐会广受好评。从个体层面来看，这类音乐会为参与者带来了更强的愉悦感，员工将其视为休憩契机、联结自身情绪的途径，而最为重要的是，将其视作“专属自我的时刻”。从群体层面而言，迷你音乐会为团队成员提供了碰面契机，催生了交流与全新的分享方式，构建了人际联结，同时为员工以别样视角了解同事、在更私人的层面认识彼此创造了条件。