A five-day workshop organised by the Ministry of Economy and Commerce (MEC) for its employees, titled “Creativity and Excellence for Employees’ Happiness”, concluded yesterday.
The workshop fell within the framework of the ministry’s efforts to support its employees, who “play an important role in achieving the ministry’s strategic mission and vision”, and enhance their innovative capabilities, the MEC said in a press statement.
The initiative aimed to create a working environment that encouraged employees to be creative and excel in their work, the statement noted. In addition, the workshop sought to build an interactive relationship with employees that would play a role in achieving effective performance and excellence for the ministry.
The workshop highlighted the concept of functional happiness and its importance in enhancing employees’ performance level. Further, it provided detailed descriptions of the most common and important motivational theories and ways of implementing them to achieve employee happiness in line with the ministry’s strategy.
The workshop introduced the participants to the main performance indicators that reflect functional happiness so that they can identify the behavioural characteristics of a happy employee, and taught relevant steps to increase the happiness level of the employees, the statement added.  
Besides, the workshop educated participants on how to design a model to measure functional happiness and enabled them to develop practical ways to analyse the role of the functional happiness model in enhancing the performance level of employees.