Human Resources: The pandemic has contributed to the discovery of leading employees

9 measures to make employers more up-to-date with Corona developments

The authority called on companies to work with their partners in new ways. ■ Emirates Today

A study published by the Human Resources Echo magazine of the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources identified nine measures that would make employers more abreast of the emergency developments resulting from the outbreak of the "Covid-19" pandemic, stressing that one of the most prominent unexpected advantages of the epidemic is the identification of employees' capabilities, Leadership qualities among them.

The study stated that most institutions and business entities, in light of the Corona pandemic, need more than ever to accelerate the pace of decision-making, and re-engineer their business and operations, in order to enable them to keep pace with the rapid changes at all levels, stressing that the global epidemic helped the leadership teams In enterprises, it is based on adopting technology and data, reinventing basic processes and adopting new assistive tools, and the new business model is based on the interaction of technology and people with each other, and the establishment of an effective institution in the post-epidemic stage.

The study stressed that the institution, which is designed to operate quickly, has witnessed strong results during the crisis of the Corona pandemic, especially in terms of increasing customer response and enhancing capabilities.

It also achieved better performance in terms of cost efficiency, returns and returns on capital, indicating the need to transfer the organizational successes achieved during the crisis into a new operating model, so that leaders must take into account the possibility that their organizations will not return to old behaviors and processes.

According to the study, achieving the new operating model requires nine procedures and permanent structural changes to support business entities and make them more in line with the developments of the Corona crisis, the first of which is to accelerate the decision-making process, as the epidemic showed that this could be done without negatively affecting the workflow, through Reducing the number of meetings and reducing the number of decision makers at each meeting.

The second measure was the increase in excellence in implementation, as the study pointed out that working in a time fraught with risks does not necessarily mean that leaders need to tighten control and implement over managing matters, rather the opposite is true, because front-line employees in such current difficult circumstances have to bear More responsibility for implementation, work, and cooperation, so leaders should give responsibility and confidence to their employees, and be responsible for holding them accountable and monitoring their performance.

As for the third procedure, it is to simplify the institutional structure, especially since the express organization has more people who take the necessary measures, compared to fewer people who feed the bureaucracy, by submitting reports and data on each other, looking for approvals, and sitting in meetings Not productive.

According to the study, the fourth measure is to nurture extraordinary partnerships, as companies should work with partners in new ways to achieve an extraordinary effect, while the fifth procedure falls under the name of unleashing smart and empowered teams. During the Coronavirus pandemic, many institutions appeared around the world. It relies on large-scale agile and agile teams, which are small, focused, cross-functional teams that work together toward a common set of goals that are tracked and measured.

Among the measures that make employers more abreast of the developments of "Corona" is also the creation of hybrid businesses, which are intended to work in a mixed manner, which is a model that has the ability to reach a wider range of talents, greater flexibility and improved productivity.

Among the measures also is to consider tomorrow's field leaders to be the leaders of today, as the study showed that among the unexpected advantages of this epidemic, that the executive heads were able to identify the capabilities of employees and discover those with leadership qualities and capabilities, and they got to know the employees who can lead the organization in light of crises, And those with the perseverance, and in many cases leaders found that emerging talent helped lead the response to crises and develop advance planning strategies.

The study pointed out that the eighth procedure was learning how to learn, and the last measure is to reconsider the role of chief executives and leaders, because the "Covid-19" pandemic has made a major change in the performance strategy and tasks of corporate leaders, as it shifted from directing the crisis response based on control and control. To build and unleash winning teams to maintain the accelerated pace of work imposed by the Corona crisis.

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institutions need more than ever to accelerate the pace of

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The new business model is based on the interaction of technology and people with each other.

- The institution, designed to work quickly, has witnessed strong results during the Corona pandemic.

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