The Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology (Standards) has defined five main goals that the UAE standard for happiness and positivity in the work environment, which began implementation at the beginning of this year, will include, including increasing productivity, and enhancing a sense of satisfaction and job security.

The authority stated to «Emirates Today» that there is a strong turnout from federal and local government institutions to obtain the standard, indicating that the standard will help provide practical tools for measuring the impact of happiness on individuals and groups of society.

Turnout

The Board of Directors of the Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology (Standards) approved, at the beginning of this year, the UAE standard for happiness and positivity in the work environment, which began to be applied after it was developed earlier, in cooperation with the General Command of Abu Dhabi Police.

The general manager of "Specifications", Abdullah Al-Muaini, told "Emirates Today" that the authority witnessed a remarkable demand from federal and local government institutions to obtain the standard, indicating that the standard will help provide practical tools to measure the impact of happiness on individuals, groups and segments of society, what It contributes to the harmonization of the general plans of the state, programs and policies that ensure the achievement of the values ​​of happiness and positivity in Emirati society, and will leave a global imprint on the standards of institutional happiness and its implications for employees.

Main goals

Al-Muaini explained that there are five main goals that the UAE standard for happiness and positivity will achieve, including the following: To make people happy is a strategic goal and goal that can be transformed into programs and initiatives, and to establish it as a sustainable value for the organization, circulating all individuals inside and outside it, in addition to increasing loyalty and career affiliation of workers In their institutions and society, in addition to increasing the productivity of workers, which reflects positively on the performance of the institution, in addition to promoting a sense of satisfaction and job security, which achieves positive returns on the individual and the institution, and finally the promotion of social solidarity between different individuals and groups of the community Enjoy.

Measurement and documentation

Al-Muaini added that the standard, which is optional, is the first standard of its kind with measurable indicators for use in measuring and documenting, and tracing happiness and positivity by applying the standards and requirements of this standard, explaining that the global happiness scale adopted six standards, including per capita GDP The aggregate, life expectancy of a healthy life, social support, the presence of a person to rely on in difficult times, the absence of corruption in government and business, social freedom and prosperity.

He pointed out that the Emirates will record through this specification an unprecedented global imprint in the standards of institutional happiness, which will have positive repercussions on employees, the customer audience and the rest of the community.

Positive environment

Al-Muaini stated that providing a positive and happy environment for government employees, and entrenching positive values ​​in government ministries, bodies and institutions requires that ministries and agencies adopt the concept of happiness with their policies, programs and services, as well as creating an appropriate work environment, in addition to enhancing cooperation and coordination by encouraging the private sector to achieve this goal, with emphasis The importance of setting objective indicators to measure the happiness of workers and customers in all groups.

He pointed out that this standard will become a basic pillar and a practical application tool that contributes to spreading and promoting the concept of happiness and positivity at the level of all governmental and private institutions, regardless of the nature of its work or its size, considering that happiness and positivity are needs of modern society, and one of the proofs that reflect The progress and success of the state.

Happiness management

Al-Muaini indicated that, according to the specification, institutions should establish, apply, improve and sustain a happiness and positive management system, as well as define mechanisms that ensure the achievement of results, and enhance happiness and positivity in the organization and its implications for achieving the required outputs, indicating that the happiness and positive management system includes the general frameworks, mechanisms and required outputs According to the requirements of the standard, taking into account the impact of this system on the institution's customers.

He stated that the authority provided the federal and local government agencies in the country with the specification, as a contribution from the authority in achieving the goals of the national program for happiness and quality of life, and in a governmental contribution by providing mechanisms to motivate individuals, government agencies and the UAE community to adopt quality of life and enhance the concepts of happiness.

Integrated components

In turn, the director of the Authority’s Specifications Department, Engineer Khalaf Khalaf, said that the happiness standard consists of an integrated set of elements that the institution can apply and achieve a feeling of happiness and positivity among its employees, indicating that these elements include the values ​​and principles of happiness and positivity, a charter, goals and outputs of happiness and positivity, and publishing standards Happiness and positivity, initiatives, programs and projects related to happiness and positivity, expected outputs from these programs, indicators and mechanisms for measuring system performance, the relationship of these tools to system elements, and finally corrective measures necessary to improve system performance. He added that happiness and positivity may be a direct or indirect way out of initiatives, programs and projects, and therefore the institution must determine the desired benefit related to happiness and positivity in the initiatives and programs, which are indirectly linked to happiness and positivity.

In this regard, Khalaf indicated that the institutions that apply the standard should define goals for the happiness and positivity system, so that they are compatible with a charter or policy and the strategy of happiness and positivity and measurable, and they must conform to the requirements in force in the institution and their achievement is monitored, in addition to that They are known and understood at the enterprise level, and updated whenever the need arises, as they should be defined by action plans that include the required resources and responsibility for implementation.

The Charter of Happiness

The Director of Specifications Department at the Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology, Eng. Khalaf Khalaf, emphasized that the institution should ensure that the employees or persons affecting the organization's work system are familiar with the charter or policy of happiness and positivity in the organization, and understand the strategy and values ​​of happiness and positivity and the institution's vision of happiness and positivity In addition to the employees' awareness of their roles and contributions in promoting happiness and positivity in the organization, and awareness of the impact of external factors on the happiness management system applied to them, as well as the effects of applying the happiness and positivity management system to the external environment Of the institution.

Follow the "Ikea Cup"

The Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology (Standards) has stated, through its pages on social media, that it will include the defective cup IKEA within the smart federal "blocker" system, which provides a mechanism for sharing information and monitoring consumer products in the UAE markets, and allows consumers to inform the regulatory authorities of the existence of Unsafe product or withdrawn from the market. The authority confirmed that it is currently following up with the "IKEA" company the latest developments related to the "TROLIGTVIS" cup, which the company recently withdrew, because it contains chemicals that exceed the prescribed limits, and may affect the health of the consumer.

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Criteria for which the Global Happiness Scale depends.

The acceptance of federal and local government agencies to obtain the standard after its approval by the Authority at the beginning of this year.