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His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, endorsed the launch of corporate happiness and positivity initiatives in the UAE Federal Government.
Shaikh Mohammed said "happiness and positivity in the UAE are a lifestyle, a government commitment and a spirit uniting the UAE community. The government system is evolving to realize the goals that every human seeks: happiness for him and his family."
He added "we are at the beginning of our journey, learning day-by-day to achieve goodness and happiness for the individual. We wish happiness for all the peoples and countries in the world."
The UAE Cabinet endorsed The National Happiness and Positivity Charter which stipulates the UAE Government's commitment, through its higher policies, plans, projects and services, to provide a nurturing environment for the happiness of the person, family and community, instill positivity as a core value in them so that they are able to achieve their goals and ambitions.
The National Happiness and Positivity Charter
The National Happiness and Positivity Charter aims to instill concepts of happiness and positivity from the UAE perspective, sets the UAE commitment towards the community to realize these values. It also aims the UAE will be a centre and global destination for that. All government entities will work towards implementing the charter to reach these goals.
Happy Work Environment
It includes five initiatives:
>Corporate Happiness and Positivity Model in the UAE: it is a unified model for all government entities consisting three pillars: corporate happiness culture, happy and positive staff requirements, and corporate happiness and positivity indicators.
>Setting up Happiness and Positivity Council in Federal Government entities includes representatives from different sectors that cover services provided by the entity. The Council aims to align policies and services to realize community happiness, launch and follow up relevant initiatives as well as streamline happiness and positivity in internal work environment.
>Happiness and Positivity CEO: one of the current federal government staff member will be appointed as Happiness and Positivity CEO by the Minister or Chairman to ensure streamlining happiness and positivity culture in the entity as well as coordinate with the Office of the Minister of State for Happiness to implement initiatives by the National Happiness and Positivity Programme and manage relevant initiatives to spread happiness among customers and staff. CEO will launch work environment classification programmes in public and private sectors according to happiness levels.
>Allocate time in federal entities for happiness and positivity activities: they aim at instilling happiness and positivity culture in the Federal Government inside the entity or outside to ensure community happiness.
>"happy and positive offices" in the government: to create a happy and positive work environment continuously through activities conducted in an innovate, effective manner.
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