Dear Anup Bhurtel,

In my opinion, a happy - this is the employee who is satisfied with his work, active and, of course, involved in internal corporate life.

Happiness - is to some degree the motivation to work in this company.

When the employee result is important, we can say that happy is equal efficiency.

Career and success in the work - it looks like a powerful component of most people's happiness.

Happiness - is to feel at home, do not forget that you are at a party, but rather in his office and team.

Regards, Shafagat

I think it depends upon Work Life Balance.Work might be urgent but not important while family is both important and urgent. Work-life balance scenario should be evaluated on a regular basis. It must be remembered that achieving work-life balance is a never-ending journey, and the needs and priorities of a person will be different at different times in life. An effective work life balance has the potential to significantly improve employee morale, reduce absenteeism and retain them in today’s global marketplace. Hence, companies may devise programs which may be offered in conjunction with benefits such as health, life, and disability insurance, or on a standalone basis. The concept of work life balance is getting a great deal of attention in the corporate world and the challenge of work life balance in our society is unlikely to disappear. Still, it is necessary that all organizations should try to provide for work life balance as it makes the employees Happy in an organisation.

You might have a look at

Luthans et al: Positive Psychological Capital: Measurement and Relationship with Performance and Satisfaction, in: Personnel Psychology 60 (2007), pp. 541–572

Hope thies helps?

Employee happiness, along with related areas of study of emotions in the workplace, is a growing and popular area of consultancy in the USA and there are numerous different products on the market which attempt to measure employee happiness and emphasise the value of this measure for organisational success. In particular, it is argued that this is key to employee retention. The key factors often include traditional measures of satisfaction combined with measures of cultural 'fit'. See this article in the WSJ for an overview : http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SOURCEB-21785

However, some recent research on employee satisfaction has suggested there may be an inverse relationship between satisfaction and performance for particular industries, it remains to be seen whether this will also be true for employee happiness.

I am writing my dissertation on the relationship between employee engagement and organizational performance in a specified population.  Theoretically, an engaged employee is a happy employee because the individual's work-related needs are being met.  A validated workplace engagement assessment instrument is the Ultrecht Work Engagement Scale. I have insertted a reference here, and also a link regarding the instrument's validity.

Best wishes for your research!

Cheers,

Stephanie

Schaufeli, M. Salanova, V. González-Roma, A.B. BakkerThe measurement of engagement and burnout: A two sample confirmatory factor analytic approach

The Journal of Happiness Studies, 3 (2002), pp. 71–92

Article The Construct Validity of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale:...

See the excellent book by Peter Warr, Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness, (2007); Lawrence Earlbaum

Based on the experience, suggested indicators are -

Career, Alignment, Recognition, Empowerment, Strive 

the Stresses from relationship with co-workers occupies the majority of many pressures of job.

Wonderful answers!!! Cheers everyone for your valuable contribution

Generally, people doing 3 types of work:

1) I am happy with my work but other are not liking

2) I am not happy but by force i do this work

3) I am happy with this work and other also happy

It indicates that if we do our work with natural acceptance (mutual happiness) then everyone will have and get happiness in any work.

In my knowledge, Happiness will be decided by perception and other major factors

on above said, 3rd stage will come with proper policy (policy should be universal) in work culture in organisation.

Thank you Vijaya Sir for your valuable insight!

Employees happiness is a positive feeling that is associated with their engagement this can be achieved by

· Making the employees feel like they are the part of a team/family

· Making the employees feel valued as individuals in the organisation

· Provision and practices of Recognition, Appreciation and celebrating each movement in the organisation

· Offering development & learning opportunities to the employees

· Optimizing Performance Management & Coaching

· Promoting Mindful Workplace Culture

thank you all for your valuable inputs.