Employee Happiness By Dilshard Hameed Introduction According to Albert Schweitzer, "success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success." Despite popular opinion, corporations frequently regard employee satisfaction as a minor issue unrelated to bottom-line results. Equally problematic, previous studies have generally used other positive emotion characteristics as a surrogate for happiness, confounding the links between happiness and work outcomes. T he present study sought to address the need to directly measure employees’ happiness, link employee happiness to outcomes of organizational interest, and assess the impact that organizational psychosocial factors have in decreasing employee happiness levels. Therefore, by measuring employee happiness, job demands, and organizational outcomes through a two-wave full panel design, the present study provided evidence for employee happiness’s ability to significantly mediate the relationship between job ...