Introduction Everybody in this world would certainly agree that happiness is essential in life and consideration of what contributes to happiness is very worthwhile pursuit. This notion recognizes that there is an individual propensity to a certain level of happiness, however positive psychologists would argue that happiness is not hardwired – only about 25% as opposed to 40-60% for most hereditary traits. Rather it is malleable and can change with context. This makes it a particularly important issue for organisations. In the organisational context, often money or material wealth are given considerable ‘air-time’. Yet wealth and material benefits aren’t always a key to happiness; for example, it has been shown that lottery winners are happy in the short term, but after a little while their happiness levels revert back to the norm. Despite inconclusive link between workers’ happiness and productivity in the workplace, there seems to be a general agreement that happy workers are to be productive workers. While wellness and life satisfaction studies conducted on working populations can be found in journals in diverse fields such as public health, education, and criminal justice, these studies often fail to examine the nature and context of work, reporting simple correlational results as the most vital achievement is the happy workforce, on the whole (Ali, 2017; Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 2017; Yaghi and Al-Jenaibi, 2017). Background of the Study In recent years, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government has worked towards establishing a national program for happiness and wellbeing. Part of this program is the strategic implementation of positive practice in sectors such as education, healthcare and in government ministries. Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has stated that the government’s mission is to promote positivity by implementing policies, programmes and services that contribute towards the development of a positive and happy community (Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 2017; UAE Cabinet, 2016), with the main tasks of ensuring that conditions are favourable for the delivery of happiness to individuals, families and employees by promoting positivity as a value in the community. Realizing this mission from February 2016 is the responsibility of the newly appointed Minister of Happiness, Her Excellency Ohood Al Roumi, charged with establishing the happiness, satisfaction and positivity of citizens as a national priority. A federal budget of 49AED billion has been allocated for 2016 alone which has, in part, enabled the Minister to work with more than fifty government entities in the national program for happiness (Remeithi, 2016). The national UAE Program of Happiness features a set of three initiatives (Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 2017):  1. Happiness in policies, programmes and services of all government entities and work environments;  2. Promotion of values of positivity and happiness as a lifestyle in the UAE community  3. Development of innovative benchmarks and mechanisms for measuring happiness in the community (“Mohammed bin Rashid”, 2016). The aim is to make happiness a lifestyle in