Abstract:
Since the employees’ contribution is vital for the proposperity of any organization, having engaged
employees is the current thought of every organization. However, there is still a enigma whether employees are
engaging in their work or not. Thus, the present study investigates the nexus of employee happiness and employee
engagement. Since little attention was paid to employee happiness in the garment industry specially on team
members, this study sheds new light on the Sri Lankan context with the association between employee happiness
and employee engagement with the help of conservation of resource theory. A survey strategy was used for this
study and data were collected from conveniently chosen 389 team members from apparel industry. SPSS 23.0 was
utilized to analyze the data. The results unveil that individuals with high workplace happiness are more likely to
have high employee engagement. This is the first study to incorporate happiness and engagement in Sri Lankan
apparel sector. The theoretical and practical implications have discoursed at the end of the paper.
