Being Happy at work

The key elements that keep you happy at work are the following.

1.Money
2.Opportunities
3.Power
4.Recognition
5.Job Satisfcation

Out of all these the first factor that makes us easily happy is money. In this fast growing and the demanding world, money is the key to everything. As correctly quoted in one of the tamil songs "kassu kaasu...chenna patinam elaam katanam"; anything and everything in this world is money.
So no employee can be happy if the monetary benefits given to him doesn't match to that of industrial standards or even his own expectations (But don't expect too high, you will never be happy).

Opportunity,as great people say is the key of success. Everyone will have potential, but its the right opportunity at the right time makes us successful, isn't it?Success is the key factor for self actuation. So everybody keeps looking for oppurtunities.In this competitive world we'll have to capitalize on any given opportunity. Should we wait for opportunities or should be go behind it? A common confusing question. I would say don't do both, rather try to create opportunities with whatever is available to you. No management will stop us from creating opportunities, so we will have to create them ourselves and work towards a preset goal. Its only when the policies don't help people even to create an opportunity themselves, they go unhappy.

Power, who in the world says no to power. Everybody likes delegation, supremacy , decision taking, etc. Its the power to things at our disposal makes people happy.

Recognition, what if you keep working and all the work that you do isn't recognized. The immediate consequence will be that the morale of the employee goes down; as a result of which productivity goes down. The recognition that we get might be in the form of pats, word or rewards. Whatever it is recognition plays an important role in keeping people happy at work.

Job Satisfaction, off course no one can be happy if the work that they do isn't interesting or if it monotonous. For some people only challenging job is a satisfactory one.

All the above 5 factors are equally important for anyone, but the importance and the perception of each factor varies from individual to individual.

At any given point of time, there should be atleast 3 of these factors for any person to be happy. Though not 100% atleast 80%. The other 2 factors should be available at atleast 50%. Again considering this factor 0f 80%, when it becomes 80% varies from individual to individual.

If we aren't happy at work, what we first need to do is analyse these factors and find which is the one that is missing. After that we will have to work towards making that factor better. Only if that is not possible we will have to think about relocating to a diff employer. Conversely, if we relocate ourselves to a different employee we will have to make sure that there is a considerable increase in all the above factors, only then it would be a win win situation.

All these above views are purely my own perception and are academic to some extent. Any comments or criticisms are welcome.