Personality and employee happiness: A study of working women in Delhi/NCR

Work is an integral part of everyday life, on an average we spend around 10 h daily in the workplace, i.e., around one-third of our entire life. It should yield satisfaction and happiness as it gives hope for the next day to start at a promising note. This study explored the relationship of the big five personality factors and the perceived employee happiness among the working women of Delhi/NCR region. The psychosocial variables included in the study were personality and Perceived Happiness of working women. The variables were assessed through the following Questionnaires: (i) NEO-FFI (Costa & McCrae, 1992) (ii) Subjective Happiness scale (Lyubomirsky & Leeper, 1997). Purposive sampling was used in the study and the sample consisted of 136 working women of Delhi NCR region. The sample is drawn from a diverse range of organizations from different sectors. The findings were encouraging as personality is found to bear significant relationships with the perceived happiness among the working women. The implications of the study are far-reaching, as it proposes an important instrument to human resource (HR) professionals to deal with one of the very important variable affecting employee performance i.e., their perceived happiness. It is a well-known fact that in the times of crisis the companies with the best people survive. HR are the only resources with the privilege of giving cumulative and continuous returns to the business organizations. Hence, this study will help in understanding the linkage between personality and happiness which can be used by the HR professions to formulate strategies for ensuring a happy talent base for the organizations.