Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has launched a drive titled “Happiness Hours” which enables employees who excel at work to leave work three hours earlier once a month in bid to motivate employees to excel at work.

The employees will be eligible for the “Happiness Hour” based on how much they excel at their work and how well they accomplish their responsibilities and tasks. The employee’s direct manager will determine if the employee is eligible for the Happiness Hours.

The idea of the project is to encourage employees to invest their experience and skills in serving customers in all DHA headquarters, hospitals and health centres.

The direct manager has the jurisdiction to give all his employees happiness hours—given that it does not obstruct the work flow—, but each employee can only leave three hours earlier once a month.

Amna Al Suwaidi, director of HR at DHA said that the DHA has more than 13,000 employees and DHA constantly strives to find creative ways to motivate their employees so that they can better serve and satisfy customers.

She said employees who excel can now ask his direct manager to leave three hours earlier once a month to spend time with their family or friends as a reward.

Al Suwaidi said that the authority has also launched ‘You’re our pride’ initiative earlier this year to motivate employees and encourage them to join the authority's drive in creating a first class medical system in Dubai.

Through the ‘Bekom Naftakher', or 'You're our Pride' initiative, employees who excel in demonstrating creativity and in making a notable difference in their work environment and the authority as a whole, will be chosen to represent DHA in the programme's competitions.

The programme competition will see awards presented for a number of achievements, including career and administrative excellence, scientific achievement, research, international accreditation, and an award for best suggestion. – TradeArabia News Service