You can offer employees a lavish buffet lunch onsite every day, bring in a masseuse on Fridays and hold the company picnic at Disney World. But at the end of the day, if you have the wrong people in the wrong jobs, you will still not have a happy workforce.

That is the message from social-recognition software provider Globoforce in a white paper titled "The Science of Happiness." Most of the material cited in the paper comes from sources other than Globoforce. However, the company teases out tips for creating a culture of happiness based on its research of others' research. And therein one can find tasty tidbits of advice that may begin to transform your workplace into a happy one.

"HR leaders encounter a lot of advice about how to manage culture — to increase engagement, decrease turnover, and drive recruitment. But when it comes to creating a culture employees love and don't want to leave, employee happiness is the metric that really matters," Globoforce says in a preamble to its data and advice. "Happy employees are what make a culture great."