Ceremony of Honoring the Employees
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Magazine Issue (3) 2013 Ceremony of Honoring The Employees ty ili ib ns po es l R cia So Achievements Awareness Training & development www.omangrid.com OMAN ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION COMPANY S.A.O.C. Magazine Objectives Inside Page • Introduce community and company employees to the company’s activities and events. • Communicate scientific, cultural and sports news to employees for them to keep abreast of the latest developments CEO’s Message 4 • Publish useful knowledge for benefit of company employees Editor-in-Chief’s Message 6 • Provide advice and guidance to employees on various important topics OETC Honors Employees 7 • Keep employees aware of important requirements of health and occupational safety Inauguration Ceremony of Qurum and Mutrah G.S. 14 • Update employees on the latest company-introduced technologies • Highlight completed, ongoing and future projects undertaken by company Campaign on Information Security 16 Revision Satellite Vehicle Management System Launched 17 OETC Joins Hands to Support “Earth Hour” 18 Eng. Thani Mohamed Salim Al-Khusaibi Eng. Alastair Johnson Dr. Adil Ghalib Khalifa Al Busaidi Mr. Rafat Khaleel Abdullah Al Bahadleh OETC Participates in Investment Assessment Workshop 19 Eng. Ahmed Ali Salim Al Nadabi Training Course on the Principles of Electrical Power 19 Editorial Family OETC Participates in the 7th International 20 Power Engineering Conference Sulaiman Khalifa Al Riyami Atheem Hamood Al Hinaai OETC Honors Employee of the Month 21 Ali Salim Ali Al Ma’amari Qais Rashid Al Shidi HSE Workshop 22 Ahmed Khalfan Al Riyami Said Saleem Al Musalti Training Course in Operational Planning 24 Lecture on “Employees Insurance Benefits” 24 Chess Tournament 25 Libyan Delegates Visit the Company 25 Third Bowling Tournament 26 Motivation Workshop 27 Print Management Solutions Project 30 Importance of Monitoring Performance Indices 31 How to Evaluate Employee’s Performance? 32 Open Day at Qurum School 35 Dialogue with an Employee 38 Tel: +968 24573201 Fax: +968 24573242 Workshop on Team Building 39 P.O.Box: 1224, Postal Code: 131 Al-Hamriyah - Sultanate of Oman Competition 42 www.omangrid.com OMAN ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION COMPANY S.A.O.C. 3 3 CEO’s Message Dear Employees, The basic building block of any functional entity is the employee himself. I have great pleasure in welcoming you to this Creating the right working environment, based on the values of loyalty, new issue. We have come a long way together, endeavor, hard work and diligence, gives the employee the space for creativity implementing a strategy of productive team work. and dedication. This is the role played by the Oman Electricity Transmission We have achieved this by realizing different forms of Company (OETC) we will remain with the same commitment, since what positive dealings within the work environment in its comes out of the employee in various stages of his/her career, is itself a various forms, and strengthening an atmosphere of success for the Company, and a proof of cohesive performance, dedicated optimal productivity in our various efforts in the areas effort and infinite creativity. The great works that you are doing in favor of of work of the Company, whether in the office or in the the Company’s strategy, realizing its methodology, and pushing it towards field, which is a place of pride and appreciation for us. optimum productivity, will motivate the Company to achieve competitiveness with similar companies engaged in the business sector in the Sultanate. We have demonstrated the Company’s accomplishments, which have been achieved over the past years. Many OETC’s achievements are directly mainly linked to the eternal efforts of of the projects and activities, and efforts are focused our staff and help the Company achieve higher rates of success through on improving the safety, performance and reliability the implementation of our strategy to upgrade our multiple services and of the transmission grid along with the completion of benefiting the community and environment. important projects on time, to enhance and secure the Dear Employees, electrical grid, and to meet the growing demand for The role that you are playing during safe duty hours results in stability of electricity in the Sultanate. the electrical grid and its high operational performance which supports the The positive communication between the Company and development of the Sultanate. All this requires the Company to give attention its employees has resulted in publishing this magazine. to development and ongoing training. We are working to raise the level of communication even We pray to Almighty Allah to help and guide you to success in your educational more in the next issues as a gateway of communication and career lives, and guide you to what is good for your country and for between Company employees and employees of the yourselves asking Him, the Omnipotent, bless you with health and prosperity. electricity sector, as well as other business sectors in the Sultanate which will have a significant impact on the success reflected in the nature of the Company’s Ali Said Al-Haddabi performance in various fields. Chief Executive Officer 4 OMAN ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION COMPANY S.A.O.C. OMAN ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION COMPANY S.A.O.C. 5 Editor-in-Chief’s Message My brothers and sisters, I take this opportunity to extend my gratitude towards We’ve kept in mind that the presence of a magazine them for their participation in and interaction with the that monitors, documents and records the events in the magazine, and wish them further participation. The last Company is to serve as a kind of communication that section of this issue is the cultural competition which, tracks the different phases of the Company with all its we hope, will present some useful information. diverse achievements, stimulants and activities. The way My dear employees, it attains a balance between the efforts and its vision The efforts of male and female employees in the shall be legible and palpable for the male and female Company have always been built on appreciation and employees in the various disciplines and departments, support of the Company. This is what the Company whether they are technical or administrative. It should seeks to confirm and act upon, because it definitely give a clearer and brighter picture of their effort its recognizes that human capital is the basis of productivity, effects and fruits, to achieve one goal - the success of and the achievement of the joint endeavors, and that the company. It means, all of our success come from can be achieved only by effectively dealing with what effective and productive team work. is happening in the transmission system, which the From time to time the Magazine is offering you insight company is running, as it looks for excellence. This is related to the Company. It merges everyone’s efforts what encourages the Company to keep the employee into an integrated composition. It cannot be effective always in mind, and to realize the path of progress and unless we are all aware of it. Also when the activities advancement of performance in all possible ways, and and successes are in a framework that can be seen by scientific and practical methods, ensuring sustainability the eye, they have a different effect and they motivate of career development on the one hand, and greater OETC Honors us to do more and give more, under the banner of openness of competitiveness on the other hand. competitiveness on one hand, and of devotion to work In this sense, the contribution of male and female on the other hand, enhancing the meaning of career employees to the magazine, with ideas, articles and attachments that we realize as the real key to what posts, opens a positive channel of communication that The Employees we are willing to access through the successes and we aspire to and we aim to take advantage of. People bounties. with talent in writing are available. The magazine In this issue of the magazine, we tried to present the is only from you and to you. It is for you and it bears most important and prominent events and activities your fingerprints and your visions. It reacts to you and OETC celebrated along with the Company employees Engineer Rashid Al Badwawi, Senior Manager, Projects experienced by the Company during the first half of along with you. Its greatest credibility is through what and executive management in Barr Al Jissah resort Department spoke on behalf of the Company›s this year. The focus is on honoring the best employees you are trying to write and publish through its pages, to honor its best employees over the past year. This management, where he explained that the OETC’s of the Company, because it reflects the attention of the so as to achieve the social mission of the magazine, as confirmed the dignity and pride the achievements of interest in its employees and honoring excellent and Company towards its employees and because of its well as technical and administrative mission relevant to the employees and their remarkable endeavors that best of them is approach that the Company adopted impact on motivating employees to exert more efforts, documentation, follow-up and continuous recording of and gain more rewards. events on different occasions. emerged through accomplishing their regular and since its inception. He stressed on the continuation of additional works through participation in technical and this approach with more endeavors and progress. Al Also we have shed light on some important We wish you the best always, and we invite you, with achievements of the Company, most notably, the confidence, to be an interacting active part of the administrative committees and other various teams Badwawi praised the tremendous efforts made by all opening of Qurum and Mutrah substations.