WORKPLACE HAPPINESS: ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE AND THE RELIABILITY OF SELF-REPORTING

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dc.contributor.advisorCui, Qingbinen_US
dc.contributor.authorHuang, Hongyien_US
dc.contributor.departmentCivil Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T05:44:08Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T05:44:08Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractHappier employees are more productive. Organizations across industry, no doubt, try to improve their employees’ happiness with the objective to achieve higher profitability and company value. While this issue has drawn increasing attention in high tech and other industries, little is known about the happiness of project management professionals. More research is needed to explore the current situation of workplace happiness of project management professionals and the driving factors behind it. This thesis explores the workplace happiness (subjective well-being) of project management professionals based on the exploratory statistical analysis of a survey 225 professionals in the state of Maryland, conducted in October 2014. The thesis applies Structural Equation Modeling and multiple regression analysis to the dataset and shows no significant impact of gender, age, work experience, and some other demographic traits on workplace happiness, also named well-being. Statistically significant factors for workplace happiness include: creating pleasant work environment, promoting open organization and well-managed team, and good organization to work for. With respect to the reliability of self-reporting, the study finds that the comprehensive appraisal tool designed by Happiness Works and New Economics Foundation can give a more reliable happiness evaluation. Two key factors, i.e. career perspectives and free to be self, can help alleviate the overconfidence of workplace happiness.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M20F6D
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18191
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCivil engineeringen_US
dc.titleWORKPLACE HAPPINESS: ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE AND THE RELIABILITY OF SELF-REPORTINGen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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