Measuring workplace happiness as a key factor for the strategic management of organizations

The purpose of this research article is to analyze the factors that affect the perception of happiness at work, through the measurement of workplace happiness, as a key factor for the strategic management in organizations in a group of 302 workers of a University in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia. The results have been obtained through the application of a questionnaire that has been adapted for the data collection process. The research has a positivist approach to measuring the perception of happiness at work; its scope corresponds to the quantitative type. Using a simple linear regression model, the research will allow us to know the validity of the model with respect to the variables analyzed. The findings contribute to the existing literature around the element of workplace happiness meaning, there is no evidence of negative results that affect workplace happiness. As for what the work means, respondents perceive it as positive and agree that the work is full of meaning and purpose and think that the organization has a great emotional meaning for themselves