Author(s): Dharmesh Gadhavi, Abhishek Parikh, Vipul Patel, Nirav Joshi, Dharmendra Thaker
In today’s business environment, management of employees of university setup has become one of the most challenging elements to consider. To sustain a competitive advantage, highly skilled employees who are perfectly aligned and motivated in the institute are essential. However, happiness becomes essential for these types of employees. Research on measuring the happiness and general wellbeing of faculty at university setup has become an important component for the management team when introducing new plans and future policies related to cultivating a positive teaching and learning environment. It is a well-established practice to measure the happiness of people of the country but use of happiness index to measure the happiness at work place in university setup is rare. In this study we have measured happiness amongst employees of the Ganpat University using the validated scale of employee happiness. The dimensions of employee happiness at the university are used as independent variables for explaining the employees’ happiness with respect to their nature of work. Therefore, we have investigated the factors which are contributing in employee’s happiness at a university, such as life satisfaction, interpersonal relationship, self-affirmation and physical and mental health. All the measures were taken from validated studies and found reliable. Survey approach was adapted using self-administered questionnaire to achieve the research objective. 362 participants were selected by convenient sampling technique. Data collected by personal (face to face) interview and online survey (email) method. Analysis included hypothesis testing regarding which constructs explains the most in defining employee happiness with the help of multiple regression and subsequent multivariate analysis. Research findings illustrate the important factors contributing in increasing employee happiness at work place. Findings also help the top management of the university in policy making. Specifically, for the Indian university, the concept is in infant stage so there is huge scope for further research in this knowledge domain.