CP COURT ENDORSED AS INVESTOR IN PEOPLE
THE CROWN PRINCE COURT TODAY CELEBRATED ITS ENDORSEMENT AS AN INVESTOR IN PEOPLE, TO BECOME THE FIRST NATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT IN BAHRAIN TO ATTAIN THIS INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION.
THE RECOGNITION, FROM UK-BASED INTERNATIONAL QUALITY CENTRE, SETS A FRAMEWORK FOR UPGRADING THE PERFORMANCE OF ESTABLISHMENTS AND ACHIEVING THEIR GOALS THROUGH DEVELOPING THEIR HUMAN RESOURCES BY WORKING ON THREE BASIC PRINCIPLES- PLANNING, IMPLEMENTATION AND CONSTANT ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE.
THE CEREMONY HELD BY THE CROWN PRINCE COURT TO MARK THE ENDORSEMENT WAS HELD UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF ITS HEAD, SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN DUAIJ AL KHALIFA.
PRESENT WAS BRITISH AMBASSADOR JAMIE BOWDEN AND SENIOR OFFICIALS FROM THE CROWN PRINCE COURT AND THE INTERNATIONAL QUALITY CENTRE.
RECEIVING THE INVESTOR IN PEOPLE ENDORSEMENT EMBODIES THE VISION AND THOUGHT OF CROWN PRINCE AND DEPUTY SUPREME COMMANDER SHAIKH SALMAN BIN HAMAD AL KHALIFA ON THE IMPORTANCE OF FOCUSING ON INVESTMENT IN CITIZENS, BEING THE CORNERSTONE OF DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AND PLANS THAT THE KINGDOM SEEKS TO ACHIEVE.
THROUGH THIS ACHIEVEMENT, THE CROWN PRINCE COURT IS PLACED IN A LEADING POSITION AMONG THE KINGDOM’S ESTABLISHMENTS TO CONTRIBUTE IN REALIZING THE AMBITIOUS VISION OF THE CROWN PRINCE.
SPEAKING AT THE EVENT, CROWN PRINCE COURT HEAD SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN DUAIJ AL KHALIFA CONGRATULATED THE CROWN PRINCE AND DEPUTY SUPREME COMMANDER FOR HIS LIMITLESS SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE THAT LED TO THIS ACHIEVEMENT.
SHAIKH DUAIJ SAID THAT THE COURT BEGAN WORKING ON MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS CERTIFICATE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2008.
THE ASSESSMENT FOR THE INVESTOR IN PEOPLE STANDARD WAS CHARACTERISED BY DEPENDING ON INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES FOR A LARGE SECTOR OF EMPLOYEES, HE SAID.
THERE WAS A FOCUS ON THE ROLE AND TARGET OF EMPLOYEES IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS FOR DELIVERING THE OBJECTIVES AND VISION OF THE CROWN PRINCE, HE SAID.
QUALITY POLICIES ARE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE AT THE CROWN PRINCE COURT AND THEREFORE A SET OF STRATEGIES CONTRIBUTING TO ACHIEVING THAT HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE, HE ADDED.
INVESTOR IN PEOPLE, THE CROWN PRINCE COURT HEAD SAID, IS A PRIME SOURCE OF MOTIVATION FOR THE COURT AND ITS EMPLOYEES OF ALL SPECIALTIES TOWARDS EXERTING MORE EFFORTS TO REACH BETTER PERFORMANCE LEVELS WITHIN ADVANCED ACTION PLANS BASED ON HIGH STANDARDS.
THE CROWN PRINCE COURT HEAD CONGRATULATED THE EMPLOYEES AT THE COURT ON THIS ACHIEVEMENT, WHICH EMBODIES THEIR GREAT AMBITION.
MEANWHILE, QUALITY SYSTEMS AND INTERNATIONAL AUDIT DIRECTOR SHAIKH FAISAL BIN ABDUL RAHMAN AL KHALIFA, WHO SUPERVISED THE ACTION PLAN FOR MEETING THE CRITERIA OF THE STANDARD, EXPLAINED HOW HIS DIRECTORATE FORMED AN ACTION TEAM WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL DIRECTORATES AND RAISED THE AWARENESS OF THE EMPLOYEES ON THE OUTCOME OF THE STANDARD/ THIRTY PERCENT OF THE EMPLOYEES WERE MET BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INTERNATIONAL QUALITY CENTRE TO ASSESS HOW THE COURT MET THE CRITERIA OF THE STANDARD, SHAIKH FAISAL SAID
THE REPORT ISSUED ON THAT SHOWED HOW EMPLOYEES WERE INVOLVED IN THE PLANNING PROCESS AND HOW MUCH THEIR EFFORTS WERE VALUED, HE SAID.
ON HIS PART, INTERNATIONAL QUALITY CENTRE CHAIRMAN JOHN GRACIE CONGRATULATED THE CROWN PRINCE COURT ON ITS ENDORSEMENT AS AN INVESTOR IN PEOPLE.
HE SAID IT WAS NOW TIME FOR ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS IN BAHRAIN TO REACH THE SAME ACHIEVEMENT BY THE CROWN PRINCE COURT ON INVESTING IN PEOPLE.
HE DESCRIBED THAT AS A FACTOR THAT ACHIEVES THE DEVELOPMENT PERCEPTION SOUGHT BY BAHRAIN THROUGH LAUNCHING ITS ECONOMIC VISION 2030.
IN 2007 THERE WERE NEARLY 35,000 ORGANISATIONS ACCREDITED UNDER INVESTOR IN PEOPLE.
THESE ORGANISATIONS EMPLOY APPROXIMATELY 6.7 MILLION OF THE UK WORKFORCE A PROMINENT ACCREDITED ESTABLISHMENT IS THE BRITISH DEFENCE MINISTRY.