Happiness at work

Abstract

Purpose: The main purpose of this document would be exploring which are the main variables that may affect a worker’s happiness in their day to day. And in order to achieve this, in the document it is explained first of all what happiness is and its importance in every organization and then what variables affects their happiness, as well as what can organizations do to improve the workers happiness. Design / methodology / approach: This document represents a theoretical review of what affects the workers happiness, starting from the need to understand the concept of happiness, its benefits and what can the organizations do in order to increase it. The document pays reference to existing literature related to worker’s happiness, positive attitude and wage, obtained from the database of the University Jaume I. Findings: Nowadays workers live in a world surrounded of variables that could affect their happiness, not only in his or her work environment but also in the personal one. Because of that, they should try to focus on watching the positive side of anything that could happen in their life. The literature highlights the importance of the variable positive attitude in order to achieve happiness. Originality / value: The document aims to show what employees’ characteristics should be improved in order to achieve the happiness at work.