Eliminating Stress and Promoting Organizational Happiness within a Jamaican Local Government Organization
Eliminating Stress and Promoting Organizational Happiness within a Jamaican Local Government Organization Organizations continue to face significant challenges in fostering employee happiness, despite its widely acknowledged importance for sustainable growth (Omar et al., 2018). Two critical obstacles include the absence of a universal definition of happiness (Kosztyán et al., 2023; Ordu & Sarı, 2022) and a scarcity of reliable tools to predict factors that enhance employee well-being (Omar et al., 2018). Notably, most existing research has been conducted outside the Caribbean and the public sector. As a result, there is a marked lack of data on how to effectively promote organizational happiness among public sector employees within the region. This gap is particularly relevant to Jamaica, where the Vision 2030 National Development Plan outlines a goal of becoming one of the best places to live, work, and do business (Planning Institute of Jamaica, 2009). Attaining such a goa...