Leading happiness: Leadership and happiness at a workplace

Abstract

Organizational achievement is determined by a number of factors, particularly human resources. Human resources with high levels of happiness will affect productivity and the smoothness of tasks performed. Since employees spend most of their day working in an organization, it is obvious that the organizational environment will affect the employees’ emotional well-being. This article discusses the meaning of happiness at workplace and the leadership factors that influence employees’ happiness. Other than adopting effective leadership concepts, leaders who have the skills to listen and think about the career path of the employees are found to highly influence their employees' happiness in the organization.