Work Place Happiness: A Tool for Teacher Effectiveness Gyeltshen Cheki1, Beri Nimisha2 1Student, M.A Leadership and Management, School of Education, Lovely Professional University 2Associate Professor, School of Education, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara Online published on 2 February, 2019. Abstract Happiness at work place can be spelt as "spirit at work". Spirit at work refers to teachers experience about their work and their feeling associated to the work with great meaning in a positive way. The individual's happiness may comprise of engagement of work and job satisfaction in the school. Workplace happiness considers very crucial at various segments both for teachers and the institutions. Happiness has a domino effect on the productivity of an institution and for individual teacher's well-being. The productivity means impacting on teacher satisfaction and commitment as a result failing to the fulfllment of the goals of an organization. The well-being covers the following aspects "physical, emotional, social and mental". The past reviews in psychology found that, workplace happiness increases the attention of teachers exhibiting positive moods, emotions, positive values and attitudes. Subsequently, some of the factors infuencing workplace happiness are depending on individuals ’needs, interests, hopes, personalities and expectations. Today, even all academicians and practitioners are fond of focusing the workplace happiness as their main subject. Thus, the present paper reviews about the defnition, causes and end-results of teachers ’happiness at work place from the past literature views. Top Keywords Workplace Happiness, Job satisfaction, work engagement, well-being, spirit at work. Top |