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Workplace happiness is an extremely important issue in terms of the future of organizations and the general happiness of individuals. In this respect, identifying and correcting the factors that make employees unhappy in business life, discovering what actually makes them happy and determining the attitudes of happy employees is also an important issue for the success of organizations. In this context, the purpose of this study is to determine the antecedents and results of workplace happiness by making use of the experiences of private sector employees. The phenomenology approach, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the study. The participants of the study consist of 10 people selected according to the purposeful sampling method. The research data were collected using a semi-structured interview form consisting of open-ended questions, and also probe questions were asked about the answers given by the participants during the interview. Content analysis was used in the analysis of the data. According to the data obtained from the research, the antecedents of workplace happiness are; It became prominent as “individual factors, manager-based factors, organizational factors, business-related factors and environmental factors”. The results of workplace happiness are; It has been classified under two themes as “organizational results” and “individual results”. It is thought that the results of this research, which provides a detailed evaluation of the antecedents and results of workplace happiness thanks to the qualitative research method, will be useful for future studies.

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