Doha: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH has concluded the new employee programme for the year 2021, which aims to prepare new employees to deal within the work environment.
The programme also provides them with the necessary skills to integrate them into the Ministry’s workforce.
The programme comes within the framework of the efforts of the Ministry of Public Health to develop the workforce and raise the efficiency of employees.
The programme included training courses for new employees, including skills for writing and following up on job reports, in which the trainees learn how to write all kinds of reports, whether electronic reports or administrative reports.
In addition to the skills of MS Office 365 and dealing with the Team application, teamwork and effective communication, through which the employee learns the skills necessary to deal with all personalities at work and deal with colleagues, as well as skills of loyalty, job affiliation, and creative and innovative thinking.
Director of Human Resources Department at the Ministry of Public Health, Ghanem Ibrahim Al Mohannadi, said that the interest in the human element and investment in its development is one of the most important principles of work in human resources management and is in line with international best practices.
He pointed out that based on this basis, the new employee programme was implemented, which was designed to facilitate the integration of Qatari employees who have recently joined the Ministry of Public Health, by integrating them into specialised and technical courses that meet the requirements of the job, which help them understand their tasks and responsibilities and adapt them to the work environment.
Al Mohannadi added that within the framework of the programme, a number of projects and initiatives were implemented within the Human Resources Transformation Strategy 2020-22, and the most important principle of its guiding principles is ‘the employee is our focus’.
Head of the Learning and Development Department at the Ministry of Public Health, Issa Al Suwaidi, said that the programme targeted all new Qatari employees who had never worked before and joined the Ministry of Public Health during the past year, in order to facilitate their integration and adaptation in the work environment and help them understand their duties and responsibilities, especially as they started working during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Al Suwaidi said about 90% of the people who provided training courses for new employees are Qatari trainers, and the number of new employees in the Ministry who benefited from the programme during the current year reached 42 employees.
