How music can uplift morale and increase productivity for each one of us

February 3rd, 2010 by admin

Music is the richness of the human art. It was the genius of Beethoven who declared that ‘Music is truth’. Those information might be only preliminary small-scale studies but scientists and researchers suggest that music may help with learning and improving performance. Employee’s Responses to playing music that was liked resulted in them returning a mood rating that was 20% higher than in a ‘no music’ state and 13% higher than in a ‘neutral music’ state.

The real attraction of music is the power and sensuality of the live sounds on the human body. Against high blood pressure. The hypothalamus controls the autonomic nervous system, which stabilizes our breathing and our heartbeat. It is also linked to emotional activity. How music helps? The appropriate music can activate happy past memories or images – the hypothalamus then helps slow the heart and respiration rate and subsequently lowers blood pressure.

Evidence is provided by a large-scale research study undertaken in the UK in 2009. The study involved interviews with 2,000 people and was conducted by Entertainment Media Research, an independent market research company. What they found was 66% of patients like to listen to music in waiting rooms. Of those, almost 3 out of 4 (74%) felt less nervous when waiting room music was played and almost 9 in 10 (86%) said it makes them feel more relaxed. Interestingly, the research found that females were slightly more positive but there were no differences by age which indicates that older people are just as likely to respond to music in waiting rooms as younger people. But the effect of music is the same at the office, it increases workplace productivity to all the employees.

A recent MusicWorks survey asked 2,000 people in offices, warehouses and factories about music in the workplace. 71% said they’d prefer music at work, 77% say that good tunes on in the background increase their productivity and a whopping 84% say it improves staff morale. Furthermore, 85% and 87% of respondents of a market research said that they are happier, and staff morale is improved, when music is being played in the workplace.

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