Engaged Workforce A Key Ingredient for Happiness at Work

Positive Psychology has brought into light the importance of positive emotions and mental well being with an aim to enable individuals and communities to thrive, wherein happiness is a state of pleasant moods and emotions, well-being and the experience of frequent positive affect and an overall sense of contentment with life in general. The interest in happiness has also extended to workplace experiences as it forms a major part of an individual's adult life. Workplace Happiness plays a significant role in defining employee- work relationship. Engagement level of employees is an aspect which measurers' emotional attachment to their jobs, colleagues and organization as a whole. Employee Engagement as an organizational construct influences happiness level as well as happiness as an experience enhances engagement level of employees at work and in general. This study is an attempt to explore this mutual impact and review the definitions, causes and influence of happiness at work and it's relation with Employee Engagement. The paper traces the journey of Happiness as well as Employee Engagement as a concept in psychology literature since its inception to the present day research findings. The aim is to make a contributory effort towards the ongoing research on enhancement of happiness and engagement levels by bringing into light the past efforts in hope of working on improving and enhancing the current levels and forming a happy and engaged workforce