期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：11
页码：1984-1994
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i11/5562
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Presently, the issue of happiness in organization has been debated among academicians, practitioners, and policy makers. This is because the concept of happiness is very likely to help guide progress towards sustainable development. Whereas sustainable development entails all parties especially public and private organizations to balance economic, social and environmental objectives in a holistic manner. When organizations pursue economic wealth in an uneven manner, overriding social and environmental objectives, the results often negatively impact human well-being inside and outside organizations such as employees, customers and communities. Thus, organizations are really needed to ensure the sustainability of their development by understanding the level of happiness of their workers. However, evaluating happiness could be indecisive since available measurements were one-dimensional and non-academically validated. Hence, the objective of this study is to test a systematic measurement of organizational happiness index that is conceptualized using 3-dimensional Authentic Happiness theory which was operationalized in one of public university setting as the education industry employ substantial number of human resources. This study aims to quantitatively produce the index for the participating organization besides analyzing the identified research framework using correlational method. The results found only a slightly happy index for the university under study. Therefore, this study can be made reference by academics and practitioners in measuring happiness at workplace based on theoretical-driven scale so that a validated benchmark could be appropriately established. Future research should replicate the same measurement in other setting hence establishing a affirming the feasibility of the index.
