Happiness at Work: Evidence of Young People’s Expectations from Lithuania

Bakanauskienė Irena () and Zagurskytė Gustė ()
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Bakanauskienė Irena: Doctor of social sciences, professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.; K. Donelaičio str. 58, 44248 Kaunas, Lithuania. Phone: + 370 37 217856.
Zagurskytė Gustė: MBA form Vytautas Magnus University, the Faculty of Economics and Management, Lithuania.; K. Donelaičio str. 58, 44248 Kaunas, Lithuania. Phone: + 370 37 217856.

Management of Organizations: Systematic Research, 2021, vol. 85, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: The article aims to: 1) assess young people’s general perception of happiness at work; 2) identify their most important features of happiness at work; 3) highlight the impact of demographic factors on expectations. The results of the study revealed that the most important features of happiness for young people in Lithuania are as follows: communication with colleagues, independence in achieving one’s goals and matching the organizational activities with the employees’ values; whereas demographic factors do not affect the expectations of happiness at work.

Keywords: workplace happiness; young employee expectations; human resource management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1515/mosr-2021-0001

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