DAMMAM, 24 January 2007 — Prince Jalawi ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Musaed, deputy governor of the Eastern Province, has urged the government employees in the province to strive for achieving the high standards of service set for the Prince Muhammad ibn Fahd Award for excellence.
The Prince Muhammad ibn Fahd Award is a prize instituted by Eastern Province Governor Prince Muhammad ibn Fahd as an incentive to raise the performance level of government departments.
Addressing a seminar organized to discuss the aims and objectives of the award in Dammam, Prince Jalawi said, “It is important to follow the standards laid down by the award in order to tap all possible human and material potential for achieving progress.”
According to Eissa Al-Ansari, secretary-general of the award, several seminars and workshops will be organized to familiarize government employees with the standards they ought to achieve in order that their departments qualify for the award.
The prize is only a means to prepare the organizational environment to stimulate the employees for making administrative innovations and develop their performance levels.
“The award is a pioneering experiment for spreading the idea of performance excellence in government departments and establishments,” said Abdul Aziz Al-Dawyan, vice president of academic affairs at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.
