Happiness among higher education academcians: A demographic analysis

Happiness motivates person for better performance which ultimately impacts its productivity and-decides about the organization‘s growth rate. Over the years various organizations (Manufacturing, Services, FMCG, BPO, KPO etc.) have acknowledged the significance of happiness quotient and have started investing more through various measures which can make their people happy on the job. Resultant satisfaction and manpower retention rate in these organizations has risen to a great extent. Literature clearly states that happy and satisfied employees can spread happiness and generate repeat customers. Due to emerging work culture employees spend maximum time in the organizations, so it is becoming important to feel them happy while on job. Increasing rate of “negative emotions” such as hatred, arrogance, jealously and anger is diverting younger generation towards crime, they are making very aggressive, and to deal with them patiently we need academicians who can spread happiness while teaching/mentoring. While many people considers sensory experience as the main source of happiness, whereas in reality it is a peace of mind which can be easily destroyed through hate, anxiety and fear. Happiness counters this and through proper education and happy people we can learn to tackle such emotions. With this objective in mind researcher tried to explore the factors that generates happiness among academicians and also suggested the ways/strategies management can adopt to create happiness amongst them.