- Al-Salem Johnson Controls (a joint venture with Saudi Binladin Group) announced at the Second Summit of Saudi work environment that it has improved work environment and raised its Saudization percentage during 2011 to 22.5 percent, for a total of 357 Saudi employees.
It has also decreased the turnover rate for Saudi nationals from 40 percent to 12 percent.
Asharqia Chamber of Commerce hosted the summit in Dammam.
Al-Salem Johnson Controls raised the percentage of its Saudi workforce from 7.4 percent in 2009 to 8.6 percent in 2010, achieving 22.5 percent in the last year, for 357 Saudi staff members out of the company’s 1,590 working force.
Factors that have contributed for the decrease in Saudis’ turnover rate are the company’s commitment to train and develop its staff members in their various fields and coaching and mentoring new recruits who need experience.
The company also provides its employees with compensations and benefits benchmarked and aligned with the best international companies within the Kingdom, in addition to enforcing a mandatory performance review within three months from the recruitment date, and an annual performance evaluation for all employees.
Basel Abdulaziz, managing director of Al-Salem Johnson Controls, said: “We owe our earnings to the Saudi economy, and this is the time to repay back and share some of our experience with the young creative and ambitious Saudi talents.”
Mohanad Naeem Al-Shaikh, director of operations and administrations in Johnson Controls, said: “We are overwhelmed with joy and happiness to know that the increase of Saudi employees has a very positive impact on the development of work environment and the company as a whole, which we all felt and is in the interest of the company and the Saudi society.”
The company recruited 245 Saudis and 44 non-Saudis during 2011, a figure that clearly demonstrates its commitment to employ Saudi skills and invest in them.