7 government measures that facilitate the tasks of institutions in times of crises and pandemics

The Federal Authority for Human Resources sets 10 priorities for employers to face challenges

The study called for the adoption of new technologies to anticipate the needs of the future workforce.

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A study recently published by the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources identified seven government measures that will facilitate the tasks of employers in times of crises and pandemics, most notably “bringing a breakthrough in hybrid learning methods, providing financial incentives to encourage digital learning, and assigning an effective role to companies in the process of educating their employees.” While the study concluded that the government should pay attention to 10 priorities that will help employers to be more able to face the challenges of the “Covid-19” pandemic, the most important of which are “strengthening anti-virus measures, making a breakthrough in hybrid learning methods, and forming resilient trade and supply chains.”

In detail, a study published by the Human Resources Echo magazine, affiliated with the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, in its latest issue, stated that the (Covid-19) pandemic has put government agencies under increasing pressure that prompted them to move quickly and on a larger scale, by re-imagining how they work, To be able to create communities and public services capable of keeping pace with various changes and developments.

The study stressed the need for government attention to 10 priorities that would help employers to be more able to meet the challenges of the (Covid-19) pandemic, in addition to revitalizing the basic capabilities of the public sector, the first of which is “strengthening anti-virus measures”, by re-imagining the concept of care. Health, digital use to support control and preparedness efforts, with the aim of accelerating action and enhancing capacities and recovery, in addition to encouraging telehealth as the default initial option for treatment, licensing requirements to enable innovation, financing models and flexible resources to pay for health maintenance rather than treatment.

According to the study, the second priority is seven actions that governments must take to facilitate the tasks of employers in times of crises and pandemics, including “a breakthrough in hybrid learning methods, which represent short unit-based, skills-based learning experiences, and the use of a wide range of external sources to create content.” Providing financial incentives to encourage digital learning, providing support to the unemployed and companies, a comprehensive focus on mental health, partial adoption of lifelong learning, and assigning an active role to companies in the process of educating their employees.The third priority is “forming resilient trade and supply chains” to protect basic private supplies, support production, and re-evaluate planning processes, supplier network, transport and logistics, while the fourth priority is concerned with “disseminating effective incentive measures”, through implementation mechanisms characterized by speed of completion. And innovation, in order to support social welfare to help employees overcome the crisis, as well as encouraging the use of green energy.

The study stated that the fifth priority includes “government digitization”, by supporting and adopting new technologies, aimed at anticipating the shape and needs of the future workforce, and the continuous keenness to develop digital channels and services to cover the customers’ journey to obtain services from beginning to end, and pushing the process of adopting comprehensive enabling factors, Like digital identities.

She pointed out that the sixth priority is related to "managing the balance sheets of business entities with an investor mentality", to ensure the usual issuance of debt, optimal investment of revenues, expenditure control, excellence in debt issuance and management, and unlocking the financing capabilities of public budget assets, as well as enabling alternative financing solutions, and optimal investment. of sources of income and containment of expenditures, noting that the seventh priority is concerned with “institutionalizing the best practices of crisis response”, in order to prepare for any future crises, by establishing a crisis management center for the business, establishing a crisis unit for future planning, and allocating a multifunctional team to discuss simulations for different scenarios, in addition to injecting investments to build resilience, and prepare for potential future crises.

The study pointed out that the eighth priority includes the need to “take decisions faster and better,” using data and analytics, publishing real-time public follow-up panels, and advanced use cases, using high-frequency data in policy-making and decision-making processes, while the ninth priority focuses on “innovating ways and smarter and more productive ways of working” in staff redeployments, automation of administrative support office functions, and the operating system for broad-based flexibility with cross-departmental teams, reskilling of government employees, and citizen-oriented job roles.

According to the report, the last priority is to "promote new types of partnership with employers in the private sector", and to establish innovative partnerships to improve service delivery and address issues on a larger scale.

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