Author(s): Essa Yousuf Majid Al Suwaidi, Suriati Akmal, Samer Ali Alshami
Much is written about work performance happiness from Western and Eastern countries and perspectives, but limited literature is available only to happiness at work, especially in the Arab region. Furthermore, employees in the public organizations in UAE are not well satisfied due to poor workplace conditions. In some ministries in UAE must equipment are not well maintained to ease the work of an employer. However, this study seeks to stimulate a concentration of research on job satisfaction in the Middle East and explicitly in the United Arab Emirates. The aim of the present paper is to confirmatory factors analysis of the happiness at the workplace in promoting employee happiness in public organization. The data were obtained from the employee of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority in UAE. Since the population of this study is 11787 therefore, the sample size was 370. Surveyed through the self-administered Google form and by posting. The data was screened, and out of the 370 questionnaires distributed, 260 were completed and were received. Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS) in Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) confirmatory factor analysis (measurement and structural measurement models) were used to analysed the data. Although this study has conceptualized the improving happiness at the workplace in promoting employee happiness in public organization. The findings of this study has conceptualized the improving happiness at the workplace in promoting employee happiness in public organization. Additional research is needed among other states in UAE. The motivational formulation of employee happiness, job involvement, work place climate and its impact on organizational performance is a point of future research.