Happiness at the Workplace: A Conceptual Recapitulation Dr Sharma Vivek1, Jain Sonam2,* 1Assistant Professor, Institute of Management Studies, Devi Ahilya University, Indore 2Ph. D. Scholar, Institute of Management Studies, Devi Ahilya University, Indore *Corresponding Author E-mail: sonamjain2805@gmail.com
Online published on 30 January, 2019. Abstract For an organization to be strong concerning people, behavior, culture, ethics, structure, growth, commitment, efficiency, policies and procedures; the employees working for it have to feel happy and motivated enough to support both the organization and themselves for achieving organizational and personal goals. Therefore, in the understanding of the whys and wherefores, they might feel unhappy would assist in implementing appropriate strategies to make them happy in the workplace. Happy people are productive, committed and creative for the organization whereas the unhappy ones may be a little lesser regarding productivity, commitment and creativity or just opposite of them. However, studies on employee happiness were seldom comprehended in the past. The subject of happiness at the workplace needs to be appropriately hypothesized so that valuable research on it could be directed. This study will further look in depth at the happiness at the workplace. The research paper is focused on what literature is talking about happiness at work. Studying the various views of different authors; it was derived that what leads to happiness at work. It has been shown diagrammatically what factors according to literature contribute to the workers ’happiness at the workplace. In the end; it was concluded that Happiness at Workplace is the combination of positive feelings that an individual have regarding organizational culture, work involvement, incomes, team bonding following the complete responsibility of his job profile. It is when the use of creativity in work being independent. Top Keywords Happiness at the workplace, positive psychology, well-being, productivity, workplace happiness. Top |