Conference day two: Tuesday 20 September 2011

08:30 Registration, refreshments and networking

09:00 Chair’s welcome and opening remarks

09:10 Discussing the critical success factors for an effective nationalisation strategy

  • Establishing the objectives of the nationalisation plan in the private sector
  • Revealing progress on existing strategies: what works and what doesn’t?
  • Understanding how the public sector can help the private sector with nationalisation

Dr. Hend Al Muftah
Assistant Professor HRM
Qatar University

09:50 INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION: Reviewing the nationalisation strategy across the GCC

  • Identifying nationalisation as a regional challenge
  • Complying to the latest trends and changes in legislations
  • Benchmarking your nationalisation strategy against your peers

10:50 Morning break, networking and refreshments

11:20 Integration vs saturation: Emiratisation

  • Effective strategies to employ nationals
  • Integrating nationals into the workforce
  • Ensuring a balance of nationals in the workforce

Zuhair Al Haj
Head of HR, Administration & Localisation in GCC
Al Futtaim Group

12:00 Driving national women into the workforce

  • Understanding the cultural mindset of national women
  • Leading and retaining national women into the global business culture
  • Career development plans for local women

Jan Mottram
Chief People Officer
Vodafone Qatar

12:40 Lunch break and networking opportunity

Career development & employee engagement strategies

13:40 Developing effective retention strategies for nationals

  • Understanding the underlying causes of job hopping
  • Enabling successful retention strategies to get nationals to be motivated and engaged
  • Identifying the daily practices that shape and influence the work environment for nationals

Abdulrahman Al Tuwaijri
Human Resource Development Consultant
Saudi Aramco

14:20 Employee engagement: The new edge for organisational performance

  • Identifying best engagement strategies to cope with change
  • Engaging local employees during nationalisation
  • Developing employee engagement as a habit across the organisation

15:00 Developing a national to be at the forefront of the organisation

  • Incorporating strategies to prepare nationals for leadership
  • Motivating and engaging employees to encourage them to take ownership
  • Sustaining a long-term development process for potential future leaders

Jackie Makhoul-Winn
Country HR Manager for Iraq/Afghanistan & Charter Bahrain
DHL International

15:40 Afternoon break, networking and refreshments

16:10 Road map for an effective and efficient nationalisation plan

  • Positioning the organisation as a citizen corporate
  • Setting nationalisation as one of the organisation’s main objectives
  • Saudisation aspects; scholarships and internships, recruitment, compensations and benefits, training, development, career planning, retention and long-term benefits

Hatem El Houshy
HR Advisor
SNC-Lavalin Arabia

16:50 Final comments from chair

17:00 End of conference

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