Alba wins top HR award

Trade Arabia reported that Aluminium Bahrain has won the prestigious International Federation of Training and Development Organizations Global Human Resource Development Award 2009 for its paper on 'The Smart Centre at Alba'. Alba will be the first organization in the Arab world to have won this prestigious award that honors breakthrough ideas in human resource and development. The Smart Centers at Alba were started in April 2004 as an effective way to strengthen motivation levels amongst employees by bringing the practice of strategy to the shop floor to realize employee potential, to stimulate creativity and create a sense of belonging, ownership and commitment. Alba’s paper was deemed excellent and was awarded the 'Knowledge Management Category Winner'. Mr Mohammed Mahmood COO of Alba said that “Even after 5 years, the Smart Centre has proved to be a huge success since motivation levels continue to be at a high level. This is not only demonstrated by achieving the best performance results ever in Alba history but also in making employees proactive and working as a single team in creating positive and friendly environment.” He said that “Hence, this award underlines an important fact that bright ideas and successful outcomes are possible only through a team effort and it is this focus that lies at the heart of Alba’s own success story.” (Sourced from Trade Arabia)