Ministry of Finance and Industry highlights future plans on human resources management

Several ministries participated in the workshop.

"The HRMS would be an instrumental tool for planning and managing activities of federal employees relating to recruitment, personnel administration, career development and assignments. It would also provide integrated HR and payroll services to employees" said Dr. Ali Bin Abood, Deputy Director General of the Civil Service Bureau.

"We aim to enable the federal government to exercise transparency and quality in its HR activities. This is in line with the efforts that the government is making to develop its operations according to the best international standards by introducing advanced projects such as the e-Government, which is considered as the umbrella of HRMS," added said Dr. Abood

Mohamed Qambar, Director of Information System Department at the Ministry of Finance and Industry, noted that the HRMS teams would, as a first step undertake a comprehensive review of the existing HR procedures and rules that are implemented across the federal government. He also said that under the HRMS, advanced procedures in HR would be implemented through an integrated electronic system.

"We organized this workshop with the Ministry of Finance and Industry in order to discuss the best practices that can be implemented in HRMS. We also presented a definition of the concept of human resources management to the federal ministries and representatives of independent bodies. Also, our aim was to shed light on the link between HRMS and the e-Government project as they are both integrated," said Ahmed Bin Ghanam, e-Government Project Manager from eCompany.

The Emirates Telecommunication Corporation (Etisalat) through eCompany is the official partner in implementing the e-Government project. It provides IT support such as selection of IT solutions, network design, and integrated network security.

The HRMS is one of the projects that the e-Government steering committee has launched recently. These include the federal government e-Portal, the Financial Management Information System, and the e-Projects supervised by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing.