Syed Hussein Al -Qassab
The CEO of Oregin Group and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Quality of Professional Life Association d. Ahmed Al -Bena said that the work of the job quality conference will witness its current version of the presentation of 10 qualitative experiences from the public and private sectors, including experiences of government institutions.
The work of the functional life conference was launched yesterday in its tenth edition in the capital, Manama, organized by the Organ Group and the Professional Life quality association, amid a remarkable qualitative presence of senior officials, experts, and those interested in the human resources and institutional development sector from inside and outside Bahrain.
The opening ceremony was attended by the President of the Shura Council, Ali Al -Saleh, along with a large number of executive leaders, public figures, representatives of government and private institutions, and a group of specialists from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and a number of Arab countries.
This conference is one of the prominent regional initiatives in enhancing the concept of quality of life in the work environment, highlighting its importance in supporting institutional stability, increasing productivity, and achieving a balance between professional and personal life, and therefore the title of the conference for this year was “towards a more balanced and sustainable work environment”
The Chairman of the Conference, CEO of the Origen Group, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Professional Life Quality Association, opened. Ahmed Al -Banaa, the conference, highlighting global transformations in the concept of job quality, stressing that this concept is no longer a secondary choice, but rather turned into a strategic necessity in modern work environments.
The construction focused on the practical dimensions in each copy of the conference, indicating that the current session witnesses the presentation of ten qualitative experiences from the public and private sectors, including experiences of government institutions participating for the first time, such as the Shura Council in Bahrain, and the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Communications in the Sultanate of Oman.
He also stressed the importance of adopting policies that motivate the employee to be happy in his work environment, considering that productivity is not related to the number of working hours as much as it depends on the passion and the love of what the employee does.
It also highlighted the importance of institutional education in this field, by organizing workshops directed to the public and institutions, enabling them to adopt simple and effective practices to achieve the quality of life without the need for high budgets, adding that the association is currently working on developing clear standards that can be adopted as reference in this aspect.
In terms of numbers, the construction revealed that 60% of employees around the world are equivalent to more than 3 billion people who lack a balance between work and life, which negatively reflects their family relations and psychological health, and thus affects their productivity.
He pointed out that 44% of the employees suffer from job stress, while Gulf statistics showed that 57% of workers are looking for institutions that provide a work environment of high quality of life.
He stressed that the conference aims to stand on these indicators and discuss them to find solutions that reduce these proportions in the region. From his side, the Vice -President of the Career Life Quality Association, Dr. Muhammad al -Faraji that the quality of life has become one of the priorities of institutions in the government and private sectors, because of its direct role in raising the efficiency of performance and enhancing the acting work environment for competencies.
He pointed out that the tenth conference enhances the linking of the global concepts of the institutional environment with the privacy of Gulf work environments, and aims to unify the vision on the quality of life to become an accredited reference that contributes to improving the work environment for the aspirations of excellence, pointing out that the worker spends a great time from his day at his workplace, which requires providing an integrated professional environment. Institutional foundations, taking into account the needs of all employees in their various categories, such as providing appropriate facilities and support services within the work environment. He also noted that the conference presents successful models for institutions that have already begun in this path, and reviews the results that they achieved after applying these programs. He stressed that the responsibility to provide a stable and attractive environment starts from the institution’s head, and withdraws to all administrative levels.
The opening ceremony included a distinguished presentation by Mrs. Rawa Bamusi, representative of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who reviewed the Ministry’s experience as the only institution in the world that has this name, and is responsible for managing the largest crowds annually in the world.
Bamusi focused on the importance of psychological preparation and vocational rehabilitation for more than 1,600 employees working in the ministry, stressing that the ministry’s success in performing its duties depends greatly on creating a balanced and humanitarian work environment commensurate with the nature of the exceptional challenges facing workers during the Hajj and Umrah seasons.
The ceremony also witnessed the honor of eight leading institutions that were distinguished by its exceptional efforts in supporting the quality of job life, and it was chosen based on qualitative initiatives and effective development programs.
