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The Concept of Happiness and Public ManagementThe basic assumption of the article is the author’s belief that a public administrator who knows and uses psychological determinants responsible for the feeling of being happy in his work is a better and more effective manager. Some of the reasons triggering this concept are as follows: a person who is familiar and uses those determinants has a better chance for selfrealization and personal growth what positively affects results of his/her activities; such a person is more emphatic, and because of this is able to establish better and more motivating rapport with the subordinates, he/she has a tendency to use rational rather than authoritarian power, and finally, as a happy person, such administrator is more charismatic, attractive, and less focused on his/her own frustrations – he/she is a person whose energy and passion are contagious. In an ideal situation, we would deal with a happy administrator ruling over happy subordinates, a situation in which both sides mutually stimulate each other, deepening feelings of satisfaction and happiness in this way