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'HR innovation critical to future of Mideast businesses'

DUBAI, October 12, 2015

Middle East businesses must place a major emphasis on driving innovation through the workforce, and on employee engagement, to help create a regional economic upturn, human resource (HR) experts have warned.
 
Deiric McCann, executive vice president at Profiles International, which surveyed 40,000 leaders through the eyes of their 400,000 employees and identified the behaviours that make a leader engaging, argued that HR is no longer simply about ‘policies and payrolls’.
 
“HR departments in the Middle East can foster innovation in their hiring procedures by ensuring that they include the search and hunt for ‘the innovation factor’ when they are recruiting and creating and designing award schemes to recognize and reward innovation in their organizations. This way, the organization will end up with a culture of innovation,” said McCann.
 
A three-day HR Summit and Expo will focus on how innovation can play a key role in developing new HR practices and ‘disrupting’ old ones, and why employee engagement is becoming essential within business practices today.
 
It will run from November 16 to 18 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
 
“It makes all the sense in the world to focus one’s effort upon what is frequently the largest capital investment in an organisation – its people. Years of research has shown that you can only dramatically increase people’s output if they come to a point where they are so invested in the organisation and its goals that they are prepared to invest some of their own time and effort in assuring its success," said McCann.
 
"That’s what we call engagement, and that’s why it must be a key focus for every single senior executive – from the CEO down.”
 
Guest speakers will be joined by a collection of eminent authors, thinkers and HR leaders from organisations around the world who broadly  agree that HR needs to assume a more pivotal role within organisations.
 
Henry Davies, founder of UK-based branding and engagement specialists 106 Communications, has underlined why employee engagement is now such a powerful asset for business improvement and better overall performance.
 
“HR can play a role not simply in being innovative, but by harnessing innovation within organisations.,” he says. “Everyone within a business can help to contribute to new ideas and innovations, and HR should be working on innovation programmes to find and explore these ideas,” said Davies.
 
“People are often the greatest cost for an organisation – both to hire and employ.  Often they’ve been seen as a commodity.  Today there’s the realisation that people can contribute so much more, and engaged teams are more productive than those that aren’t," he said.
 
The event will feature more than 60 concurrent sessions and a choice between ten certified master classes led by an unrivalled faculty of facilitators.
 
Ramy Bayyour, show director, said: “The HR Summit and Expo has expanded rapidly over the last decade, becoming a must-attend event for HR professionals in the GCC region and beyond. 
 
"This year we’re putting the spotlight on innovation and employee engagement, which have been hot topics that concern all businesses in the current economy.
 
“The event will be an excellent opportunity for HR professionals in the region to hear first-hand from a thought leader in how their companies can get that competitive edge by implementing innovative HR practices.”
 
Running alongside the summit and exhibition will be the Middle East HR Excellence Awards which will showcase the best HR talent in the region and honour professionals in the public and private sectors.  
 
The winners will be celebrated across 10 separate categories at a gala dinner on November 17 at The Address Hotel Downtown Dubai. - TradeArabia News Service



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