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Happiness is subjective and has a different meaning with each person, but most people can define happiness in two definitions.Richard M. Ryan a professor from the institute for positive psychology and Edward L. Deci a professor of the psychology and Gowen professor in social science define happiness in these two perspectives.

Employ salary

In this economy people work to live and seeing a pay increase can have a huge correlation to ones happiness. The raise does not only get the employee more money, but it gets them a feel for more positive work attitude. Costco's CEO, Jim Sinegal stated that "Paying good wages and keeping your people working for you is good business...Imagine that you have 120,000 loyal ambassadors out there who are constantly saying good things about Costco. It has to be a significant advantage for you." Jim Sinegal has been in the retail business for pretty long and knows quite a lot about running a business. Having employees getting their salary raise would cut down on some of their financial burdens which in turn the employees would take care of their business.

Job security

There is already some ways employers try to motivate employees into staying. One of these methods is called a retention bonuses, a retention bonus is when a company gives a valued employee money to stay. This is beneficial to everyone because the company will not spend more money on hiring employees and the employee will get a check that can be used on whatever they want. Another way a company can influence employees by staying are raises and promotions. This will provide employees with job security and better performance.

Working relationship

Being included at work helps one develop new skills to over come an obstacle and also helps ones social and emotional skills. Having good people around can be a beneficial to ones happiness because having people around improves cognitive thinking.

Job performance

Having an employee that cares about their job will motivate other employees to strive for more. Having multiple employees that care about their job will bring the moral up in any company. Having a good moral will increases the performance of the employees which will benefit the company which will intern take care for its employees.

 Long term 

Being happy or unhappy at work has huge correlations to ones health. When one is unhappy or dissatisfied at work it can lead into something some negative health issues. A study conducted by Ohio state university collected 6,432 average Americans (ages between 25-39) and asked them to rank their job satisfaction 1 through 4; 1 being that they hate their job and 4 being that they love their job. After the participants turned 40, the research discovered that the people who rated their jobs a 1 had mental health issues such as anxiety and depression.

Symptoms of anxiety and depression


 * consent sadness or being alone
 * changes in moods
 * feeling hopelessness
 * felling helpless
 * lost of interest or unmotivated
 * lack of energy
 * difficulty concentrating
 * insomnia or over sleeping
 * weight loss or weight gain
 * thoughts of suicide or attempts of suicide

A perfect depiction of career development is the career development theory. The theory can be easily broken down into three concepts career insight, career resilience, and career identity. Career insight is having self-realization. The basic concept of this is having goals that are realistic and manageable. For example, setting a goal such as simple as getting to work early; the goals can vary in size, but the most important part it to accomplish them. This influences people to set small goals that are obtainable, rather than making a goal that is impossible to acquire. When accomplishing these realistic goals, one gains a stride of happiness. If the person set an unrealistic goal, there would be consequences with obtaining failure. When people fail, they either become sad and depressed or unmotivated. When affected by the lack motivation, it can create a routine of underperforming at work. The second part of the theory would be career resilience. Career resilience is the ability to adapt with the demands of the work environment or the demands of the market. This can mean many things, but most importantly it is accepting change as the opportunity to grow or over come challenges. When a person acquires this mentally, they can accomplish many things they set out to do. The reason why this skill is so important is because it trains one’s mind to take challenges and risks that others might not take. This demonstrates how committed and proactive they are towards a company. The final part of the theory is having career identity. Having career identity is having the motivation or having love for what they do. Loving one’s job is important because we spend about 1/3 of our day working and not loving what one does for a living can have a huge toll on one’s mental health over time.

The work environment has a great influence on the emotions that one has. Having coworkers that are motivating and encouraging can be beneficial to the rest of the workers that is because smiling contagious. When smiling people tend to believe that it is happiness. Smiling and happiness seem to have a hand on hand correlation because when one is happy what is the facial expression they depict? That would be smiling. There has been a study about how when people just fake smile they trick their mind that they are actually happy, just as there is a saying fake it till you make it. Having a negative person in a happy and motivation environment can bring down the overall quality of the people. This can go both ways because when having a positive person in a messy and negative workplace can bring the working environment to become more uplifted and progress. This is a reason why the work environment is a great contribute to one’s emotions. One may only see their coworkers about 5 times a week for 8 hours and their attitude aluminates the environment. The coworkers make the work environment what it is.