Istanbul Management Journal, 91, 1-24 DOI: 10.26650/imj.2021.91.001 hp://imj.istanbul.edu.tr Submied: 09.05.2021 Accepted: 13.12.2021 RESEARCH ARTICLE / ARAŞTIRMA MAKALESİ Istanbul Management Journal 1 Ahmet Erkuş (Prof. Dr.), Bahçeşehir University, Business Department, İstanbul, Turkey. E-posta: ahmet.erkus@eas.bau.edu.tr, ORCID: 0000-0003-3270-7070 2 Corresponding author: Mine Afacan Fındıklı (Assoc. Prof.), Beykent University, Business Department, İstanbul, Turkey. E-posta: minefindikli@beykent.edu.tr ORCID: 0000-0003-1021-6641 To cite this arcle: Erkus, A. & Afacan Findikli, M. (2021). Workplace Happiness: A research on the effects of workplace environment and psychological capital.. Istanbul Management Journal, 91, 1-24. hp://doi.org/10.26650/imj.2021.91.001 Ahmet Erkuş 1 , Mine Afacan Fındıklı 2 Workplace Happiness: A Research on the Effects of Workplace Environment and Psychological Capital Abstract Previous studies carried out within the scope of posive psychology reveal that happiness have been related to workplace producvity and the performance of the employees. To widen this insight, this study analyzes the relaon between the workplace happiness level of the employees and the psychological capital and also workplace environment variables such as role ambiguity, role conflict, the characteriscs of the job, workload, and supervisor support. According to the study results, psychological capital, job characteriscs and supervisor support affect the employees’ workplace happiness significantly and posively whereas role ambiguity and role conflict affect them negavely. On the other hand, it is determined that psychological capital has a moderang effect on the relaonship between role ambiguity, job characteriscs, and supervisor support, and workplace happiness. Keywords Happiness, Psychological Capital, Workplace Environment, Supervisor Support, Posive Psychology This work is licensed under Creave Commons Aribuon-NonCommercial 4.0 Internaonal License