Abstract:

This research aims to examine the relationship between workplace fun and inspirational leadership towards employees’ happiness at work when its mediated by the variable of participative decision making. The sample of this research is programmers as the knowledge intensive workers in 24 – 40 years old in Jabodetabek area. The method to process the data was with the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The result of this research shows that workplace fun and inspirational leadership directly have positive relationship towards employees’ happiness at work. As for the mediating effect of participative decision making was not proved to had an effect towards those relationships.