Journalism: Ahmed Saadallah

The Jobmaster / IBM – Kenexa event (held at the Fairmont Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt) included talks on numerous topics related to the new partnership between Jobmaster group and IBM-Kenexa. Most of the sessions introduced IBM- Kenexa and its importance to Human Resources leaders and organizations, Jobmaster Services and an enticing session about managing and rating performance.

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Hesham El-Badawy (CEO of Jobmaster Group)

Hesham El-Badawy (CEO of Jobmaster Group) and Mahmoud Abdullah (GM Commercial of Jobmaster Group) talked about the group history and displayed a video titled “There for you”. There for you is a video that shows the extreme satisfaction of prestigious clients in the Middle-East market, the gulf countries and worldwide organizations working with Jobmaster on projects to attract, train and retain the best calibers providing best consultancy services to these organizations.

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Mohamed Emad , Executive – IBM Collaborative Solutions , IBM Company

Mohamed Emad , Executive – IBM Collaborative Solutions at IBM company.

Talked about the trend in the market and why many companies choose IBM.   Additionally, he talked about how IBM can provide customized smart solutions to its clients; presenting IBM Kenexa Assessments, Talent acquisition solutions, talent engagement and talent framework.
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Robert Mosley – Jobmaster Global Remuneration Expert

 

Robert Mosley – Jobmaster Global Remuneration Expert
Session Name: “Performance Appraisal Rating and Managing the Distribution Curve”

He introduced the trend of performance management and performance rating demonstrating how employee rating can affect employee engagement positively. Mosley says that the best practice is to have a 6-scale rating; still, 5- Scale rating is acceptable. Also, he introduced to HR professionals and senior CEOs  the wording and language used in rating scales and how organizations must avoid words such as “satisfactory or average performance” because employees do not get motivated hearing these words. On the contrary, he has advised the audience to use words such as “Well done and Bravo” just like Google company.

Robert has covered weighting of “objectives and goals” versus “competencies and behaviors” and forced distributions of ratings and advantages and disadvantages. The result was that according to the best practice in the middle-east is to have 60% weigh for objectives and 40% for behaviors. He extended his elaboration on why the bell-curve is not working and how much skew on the curve can organizations tolerate. He advised senior management to use first the “Snap Ratio” which is the percentage of employees above satisfactory divided by the percentage of employees below satisfactory. According to this ratio when we reach 3.5, managers can use the forced distribution to manage performance.

Questions were posed from participants and got answered followed by an advice about the inflation rate in Egypt and what should companies do regarding it. He observes that the price of the dollar to the Egyptian pound is irrelevant and that organizations need not to do anything that is permanent at least for six-months. He predicts that inflation will eventually drop and stabilize at ( 13-15% ).

 

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Benoit Hardy-Vallee , IBM Kenexa Lader Middle-East and Africa

Benoit Hardy-Vallee , IBM Kenexa Leader Middle-East and Africa
Session Name: “ Predicting Workplace Challenges through HR Analytics ”

Benoit talked about the business analytics and its importance to provide solutions for better decision making and how performance management can be executed through cloud solutions and software. Also he stressed on the importance of adding the people data (HR Data) to the business data to align company performance.

There is no doubt that the project between jobmaster and IBM KEnexa will be a value added to organizations worldwide. The technology is really transforming the business to a high level of activity and smart solutions

 

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