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Happiness at work & working relationship
According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needsMaslow's hierarchy of needs,feeling a sense of belonging to groups is a significant motivation for human beings. Co-workers are an important social group and relationships with them can be a source of pleasure. Three Needs TheoryNeed theory also suggests that people have a need for affiliation. Person-job fit, the matching between personal abilities and job demand, has important effects on job satisfaction.

Group relationship
Herzberg’s two-factor theory indicates that co-workers relationship belongs to hygiene needs, which are related to environmental elements. When environmental elements are met, satisfaction will be achieved. Employees tend to be happier and more hardworking when they are in good working environment. For instance, we would be happy to work in a good working relationship.

Group relationship is important and has effects on employees' absenteeism and turnover rate. Cohesive groups increase job satisfactions. Mann and Baumgartel state that the sense of group belongingness, group pride, group solidarity or group spirit relates inversely to the absenteeism rate. Among the target groups, group with high cohesiveness tend to have low absenteeism rate while group with low cohesiveness tend to have higher absenteeism rate.

Seashore investigated 228 work groups in a heavy-machinery-manufacturing company. His findings suggest that group cohesiveness helps employees solve their work-related pressure. Seashore define cohesiveness as '1) members perceive themselves to be a part of a group 2) members prefer to remain in the group rather than to leave, and 3) perceive their group to be better than other groups with respect to the way the men get along together, the way they help each other out, and the way they stick together'. Among the target group, the less cohesive the group, the more likely its employees are to feel nervous and jumpy.

Different communication ways in groups contribute to different employees satisfaction. For example, the chain structure results in low satisfaction while the circle results in high satisfaction.

Leadership
Leadership is between leader and follower. Leaders should have committed and responsive followers and leadership is done by both leaders and followers. Furthermore, leadership includes relationships among followers. Successful leadership will structure and develop relationships among employees and consequently employees empower each other.

There are different kinds of leaderships. Kurt Lewin argued that there are 3 main styles of leaderships in the 1930s: 1) Autocratic leaders--control the decision-making power and do not consult team members. 2)Democratic leaders--include team members in the decision-making process but make the final decisions 3)Laissez-faire leaders-- team members have huge freedom in how they do their work, and how they set their deadlines.

Management plays important roles in employees' job satisfaction and happiness. Good leadership should increase the happiness at work to make employees work better to reach companies' goals. For example, if a leader is considerate, employees tend to develop a positive attitude to management.

Feelings, including happiness, may be hidden in the organizations by employees. Some feelings are not there but appear to be. Feelings are significant to organizations and leaders have begun to appreciate the power of feelings. Feelings should be identified. Clearly, effective communication is a must in workplace. Obstacles of effective leadership includes communication barriers. Researches show that both leaders and employees could make communication ineffectively. Leaders tend to focus on their own, for example, they may interrupt others easily. Employees, on the other hand, tend to be reluctant to talk about their own problem and assume leaders can figure out the problem. As a result, both leaders and employees contribute to misunderstand each other. It is said that only leaders are responsible for building leader relationships, but both management and employees should build it together.