Minister of Labor Adel Fakieh will open today the three-day Business and Work Ethics forum in Jeddah Hilton Hotel. Prominent businessmen and decision makers from the private and government sectors are likely to attend.
The forum’s Secretary-General Ehab bin Hasan Abu Rukbah said the ministry supports this forum because it realizes the importance of work ethics in administrative practices in private and government sectors and of strengthening the role of values and code of behavior at work. The forum’s significance comes from the fact work ethics have a large impact on the quality of work performance, services and the achievement of goals for private and government organizations.
Business and work ethics are considered a part of individuals, enterprises and society integration process to improve development in the country. Ethics would have a great role in implementing and utilizing individuals’ capabilities, increasing profitability and achieving goals, he said. The forum stresses work ethics as a fundamental basis for the success of enterprises, and seeks to remind those in the field that it is necessary to maintain existing ethics as well as practice Islamic ethics and values to create a productive and effective work environment and increase gains.
Of the aims of the forum, he said, is to strengthen the value of ethics within organizations and create a competitive edge for them (the organizations), in addition to recognizing the role of ethics in improving organizations’ social responsibility and the ethics working as incentives for employees, managers and board members to make decisions based on a group of common values.
The forum is also aims at stressing ethical behavior as a factor in improving and achieving profits, he added.
Abu Rukbah, whose office is co-organizing the forum with the Ministry of Labor and Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said the forum will discuss ethics and ethical responsibility from a leadership perspective, the social responsibility to build a work ethical responsibility, work ethics from an Islamic perspective, the effect of work ethics in building competitiveness within and between organizations, in addition to reviewing a number of experiences and success stories in the sessions and workshops.
Speakers include decision makers and managers, as well as human resources experts and consultants, employment agencies officials and universities’ and institutes’ professors and students.
Forum set to discuss work ethics
