Abstract:
Happiness is a positive inner experience and is often used interchangeably with psychological wellbeing, quality of life
or satisfaction. But the definition of happiness is quite different and distinct in the eastern world when we compared
it with the western world. It has been described as multidimensional and does not centered around the subjective
wellbeing elimination other dimensions as it is done in the west. Happiness at work is important for organizational
success. It leads success, achievements and satisfaction. Researchers have found out that happiness transform people
to more creative, energetic and successful. To understand the relation between happiness and performance at work, a
study was conducted in a plant of a Navarantna Company at Bhubaneswar, India during June-July, 2017. A total of
201 responses were collected from the selected plant using judgmental sampling technique. Happiness among the
employees was measured as per the Bhutan’s GNH index. A structured questionnaire was constructed covering all
the 9 domains in GNH index, 2010. First 3 domains are familiar with human development perspective- living
standards (housing conditions, earnings, wealth) education and health. Then the good governance, ecological resilience
and use of time are the nest 3 domains. The final three domains were quite ground-breaking- psychological wellbeing
(happiness including feelings and mysticism), cultural diversity and resilience and community vitality. The
methodology we used to measure happiness was “Alkire-Foster method (2007-11) for measuring multidimensional
poverty” as used in the GNH index. Whereas, the performance of each of the sample employees was taken from the
last year’s office records as appraised by the company. There was no attempt made to reassess the performance of the
employees by the investigator but the result was verified before taking it for analysis. The primary objective of this
paper was to find out the impact of overall employees’ happiness in their performance at the workplace. Is there any
positive relation between happiness and performance of employees at workplace? There was also an attempt to see
the relationship of each domain of nine selected domains with the performance of the employees. After the analysis,
there could not be found any significant relation between overall happiness of the employees of the selected
organization and their performances in the work field.
