Training 'CHO’s' Chief Happiness Officers: A Higher Education Course Design Challenge

Worldwide, organizational happiness presents as the future human resources management and internal marketing practices but there is scarce higher education (HE) training in this merger field. So, which are the ideal key components, scientific fields and respective modules of a Post-Graduation Program on "Organizational Happiness Management" and which is the full CHO's skills profile. The aim of this research is to debate the future challenges of HE in creating global, integrated and consolidated curriculum offers to train professionals for a new emerging profession, the Happiness Managers and to present an HE Post-Graduation Program in Organizational Happiness Management. Research methods included literature review, essayistic view, bench marketing practices and future research methods, since we are projecting the needs of HE and labour market for the future, and designing the training for an emerging profession. We present a Post-Graduation Program, which unites the fields of Human Resources Management, Organizational Psychology, Internal Marketing and others, focusing on the workplace happiness. The Organizational Happiness Management Post-Graduation Program comprise several specialized modules designed to include every aspect that a CHO should be trained including: outdoor learning, lifelong learning, positive and flourishing organizations, organizational behaviour, sociology, internal marketing, leadership and followership, flow, ergonomy, emotional intelligence and mindfulness, workplace and office design, employer branding and employee value proposition (EVP), amongst others. We hope this paper compels the diverse multidisciplinary fields to think with us about the future of HE, proposing training CHO’s even before the market is truly and deeply aware of their need.