Happily Productive or Productively Happy

Happiness or felicity is a state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. And on this account, we see a thin line linking happiness, though a personal matter, to productivity in the workplace. But which one really comes before the other, happiness or productivity, might be a little hazy at this point. Hence, to answer this, we come to recognize the sources of our own happiness while at work and how it relates to our performance.
Based on Kjerulf’s cogitations, happiness at work is the no. 1 productivity booster, and citing reasons like: Happy people work better with others, fix problems rather than complain about them, make better decisions; they’re optimistic and way more motivated, and they have more energy and get sick less often. He also added that the link is strongest from happiness to productivity – meaning, if you want to be more productive, the very best thing you can do is focus on being happy with what you do.
On the contrary, both Kerns and Larson agrees that productive workers do seem to be happier. Productivity leads to satisfaction and happiness, not the other way around, and that engagement is the best goal for a manager who wants to influence the happiness level of his or her employees.
So where do we go from here? Actually, it really depends on the person’s personality and attitude. A competitive employee, one that draws satisfaction from every achievement and “well-done job”, would most like agree with Kerns and Larson. This is chiefly due to the fact that people who are used to excelling are people who would normally find being productive, having a lot of things done beforehand and receiving recognition for such act, as a source of happiness. But to think of this on a wider range perspective, we’ll realize that such form of happiness and contentment is very short-term. It is something that would only last while you’re at that moment, and will eventually diminish. These are the kind of workers