The Differences of Factors Influencing Employees’ Happiness
—Comparison Based on Enterprise Ownership

Shu Zhou, Ling Qiu

Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China.
Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China..

DOI: 10.4236/ajibm.2013.38082                

Abstract

As a measure of enterprise development, affecting an important indicator of business performance, employee happiness’s affecting factors have drawn more and more widespread attention. However, are the factors affecting their happiness in enterprises of different ownership in the same way? This paper selects four dimensions: total compensation, organizational commitment, self-realization and health concerns from the degree of influence on employees by a subjective and psychological comprehensive measure of well-being; We build a theoretical model of comprehensive happiness for employees. We also use the correlation analysis and regression analysis under different ownership forms to find out the factors affecting their well-being. The results showed that factors about employees’ happiness are different under different ownership of enterprises.

Keywords

Employee Happiness; Total Compensation; Organizational Commitment; Enterprise Ownership

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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