No: 1
  Date: July 2007
 
   

Dear Readers,

Welcome to MenaITech’s first quarterly newsletter! We’re proud to finally present you with a resource that puts together the latest HR & IT news across the region for our broad base of clients, business partners and stakeholders in general.

Our newsletter will be featuring the latest news for MenaITech in addition to those of our clients and business partners. So feel free to send us your latest news for us to post in our future issues. We have also listed the past quarter’s MenaITech Employee of the Month winners, an initiative which runs inline with our internal HR development policies. Moreover, we have dedicated a section to listen to your views and comments, where we will be posting an HR-IT related question to hear your take on it. Again, please contact us if you wish to participate in future issues.

As many of you already know, MenaITech is the first Arab software company which provides high quality and comprehensive enterprise level Human Resources solutions that are specifically tailored to fit the Middle East & North Africa region’s requirements.

So we’d like you to sit back, relax and enjoy a newsletter dedicated to putting HR in the front seat through your ongoing support and participation. This issue has been distributed to all of you who we have come into contact with us at some point during our four years of business. And we would therefore like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for being a part of our ongoing success. We hope that the newsletter meets your expectations and serves as a solid reference to where HR and IT meet.


Regards,

Bashar Hawamdeh
MenaITech CEO

 
       
 
 
 

“To manage people well, companies should ... elevate HR to a position of power and primacy in the organization, and make sure HR people have the special qualities to help managers build leaders and careers.”

Jack Welch, 2006                             

 
 
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  Oger Systems Limited Company (OS) shifts to a new location.  
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  Dramatic Improvements to Bahraini Seaport by APM Terminals  
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Wesam Azmy

 
 

Senior Web Developer

June,2007

 
  Mohammed Owis  
  Web Developer  May,2007  
  Mohammad Hawamdeh  
  HR Functional
Consultant
 April,2007  
  Mahmoud Othman  
  Senior HR Functional Consultant  April,2007  
 
    What incentives in your opinion are necessary for employee motivation in your organization?

Recognition is one form of motivation which could include asking employees for their opinion and making them feel that they and their opinions are valued. They consequently become more engaged in work and feel that they play an important role in the organization.

Andera Kassisieh
HR Manager - Aramex
JORDAN

I believe that employees are motivated by different things according to their values, experience, knowledge and personal as well as professional objectives. Being motivated is a state of mind where an employee has expectations from organizations, management and him or herself. I strongly see that involvement; ownership, coaching, communication and reward and recognition lie at the heart of being motivated and result-driven employee. Recognizing that different people are motivated by different influences, management should strive to have a balance between those influences in order to ensure having productive but motivated employees.

Dr. Lulwa Al Mutlaq
Chief Executive - Golden Trust Business Consultancy
BAHRAIN


1- Employees are paid their salary to do the job they are hired to do.
2- Employees are paid a salary increase for significant contribution or adding value.
3- Employees are paid bonus for their future abilities to advance.
4- Employees receive recognition (excellence awards, employees of the month … etc.) when they exceed exceptional performance.

We motivate our employees through numbers 3 & 4. We also believe that the i2 business culture is another motivating factor; the i2 culture is pay for performance & reward for achievements.


Helal Omar
Senior Vice President HR – I2
UAE


Many would immediately say monetary incentives are necessary, while I don’t deny that monetary incentives play a role in motivation, equally important to them are incentives that satisfy the employees’ need to grow, develop their career and feel the impact of their contribution to the overall success of the organization. Such incentives include, but are not limited to, continuous opportunities for development, objective-based rewards and career development opportunities.


Rasha I. Atallah
HR Manager – STS
JORDAN