The Prime Minister's Office held a workshop today, Saturday, for secretaries and general directors at ministries and governmental institutions, on managing and evaluating job performance.
State Minister for Public Sector Development, Engineer Badriya Al-Balbeesi, opened the workshop by emphasizing that real and objective evaluation of employee performance will reflect on individual and institutional development, contributing to the implementation of a roadmap for updating the public sector, in order to achieve an enabled and effective public sector, capable of providing the best services to citizens.
Al-Balbeesi affirmed the importance of continuing the partnership approach with the secretaries, general directors, partners, and stakeholders in implementing the public sector modernization roadmap, stressing that administrative updating is the main lever for both economic and political modernization paths.
In turn, the President of the Public Service and Administration Authority, Engineer Fayez Al-Nahar, stated that the public sector modernization roadmap included reform measures to develop the job performance management system and link it to institutional performance, especially in the components of human resources, leadership, services, and governmental procedures, pointing out that the roadmap has contributed to the transition from performance evaluation to management, linking the employee's expected goals with the strategic goals of the institution.
The Secretary-General of the Authority, Yasser Al-Nasour, presented a visual presentation about the governance of the performance management process, the mainstays of the general policy for evaluation, and the roles and responsibilities assigned to the employee and the direct supervisor up to the Secretary General and the Minister, showing that the Authority has provided technical and advisory support to ministries and institutions on the method and mechanism of performance evaluation that began to be implemented according to the human resources management system this year, with a total of 5320 trainees, while 152 training workshops were conducted in this regard.
The secretaries and general directors provided interventions and observations during the workshop about the positives and challenges included in the management and evaluation of job performance during the current year, emphasizing the importance of objective evaluation for the development of human resources in the public sector.
