Employee performance management system workshop held

Manama, May 16 (BNA): The Civil Service Bureau (CSB) in coordination with the Institute of Public Administration (BIPA) has completed a training programme specializing in consolidating the concepts of implementing strategies and actions with respect to the employee performance system. The programme was applied in six periods at the rate of 60 training hours and attended by more than 286 directors and their equivalents. It aimed to introduce the system in general and to empower directors to implement the system in a supportive learning environment. Director General of Human Resources Development & Performance Management, Adel Hajji Ibrahim Mohammed, said that the ADAA system raises the capacity of human resources by focusing on the development of administrative and legal controls, aiming to develop and raise productivity of human resources, making it capable of achieving the strategic objectives of the Government Entities, he also said that the implementation of the system comes within the government's policy to improve the employments benefits for all employees subjected to civil service, which will contribute to the upgrading of government work, raise the performance level and production quality, as the system contains a link between the government employee performance and the incentives, awards, promotions, accountability and training program. The employee performance & relation director, Fareed Abdulrahman Abdullah stressed on the importance to continuing the awareness consolidation on the ADAA system, through a continuous training to keep pace and to accommodate future change factors, reduce resistance to employee evaluation standards in line with the system strategies. He added that “at the time we consider the adoption of unifying framework of employee performance management in all government entities through implementing the ADAA system at the level of civil service is a new achievement and we hope to continue this cooperation and to have a sustained communication between us in the service of the homeland.” Employee performance head and the ADAA system project leader Alia Abdul Aziz Murad said that the workshops are part of a series of training activities. “It is the second phase of providing training programmes that are compatible with the government training needs to manage the employee’s performance in accordance with the standards and strategies for directors,” she said. “The workshop for undersecretaries and assistant undersecretaries has been completed for nearly 100 government participants who were trained to follow up the implementation of the system.” There are plans to hold training activities for section chiefs in the various government entities, she added. The directors praised the training workshop, stressing that the session was in line with the training needs with respect to the system. They added that the workshop touched on examples from experience and that they were briefed on the most important assessment programmes and given a greater opportunity to learn about new mechanisms for evaluation. z