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The purpose of the study is to examine whether there is a positive change in the perception of subjective well-being (happiness) and job-related well-being of the graduate students who take the course of employee happiness. The research sample group is 31 graduate students who take the “Employee Happiness” course at a foundation university in the fall semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. The subjective well-being perception and job-related well-being levels of students were evaluated before taking the employee happiness course and after taking the course in the 12-week academic term. A survey form occurred of three section was used to collect data in the study. There is a demographic form in the first section of the questionnaire, Oxford Happiness Scale (Subjective Well-Being Perception Scale) developed by Hills and Argyle (2002) and adapted to Turkish by Doğan and Sapmaz (2012) in the second part and The Job-Related Affective Well-Being Scale (JAWS) was developed by Katwyk, Fox, Spector and Kelloway (2000), adapted and reliability and validity studies were performed Turkish by Bayram, Kuşdil, Aytaç, and Bilgel (2004) is used in the third section. According to the results of the study, subjective well-being (happiness) perception and job-related well-being perception evaluations of students are significantly higher than the pre-lesson evaluations. Employee happiness lesson caused a significant increase in students' subjective well-being perception and job-related well-being levels.

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