Shaimaa Al Awadhi, Director of Human Resources Management Information System, said that the updated version of the Authority's Application (FAHR), has prompted the addition of new services that will enable the employees and officials of ministries and federal entities to complete their own human resources transactions and of their employees in a manner that saves them considerable time and effort. These services include: provision of a real-time HR dashboard for the employees and other officials, and opportunity to complete all stages of Performance Management System for Federal Government employees through the application.

Al Awadhi said: “App. FAHR enables the line-manager to complete pending procedures via self-service system in the Federal Government's Human Resources Management Information System (BAYANATI).  It also provides a HR dashboard with 20 indicators that enables him to monitor the performance of his employees and their commitment to attendance. The indicators include the number of absentees, pending leave applications, employee attendance, number of training applications, percentage of completion of annual performance cycles, number of staff completing individual development plan, number of staff in probation period, number of staff getting awards under Rewards & Incentives program in the Federal Government, and percentage of employees whose data have been completed in BAYANATI system.

“Smart Application (FAHR) also provides a smart dashboard for use by employees of ministries and federal entities, including 11 indicators, the most important of which are: total leave balance, number of certificates requested and issued, approved leaves, unapproved absences, years of service, and percentage of smart app. usage, compared to self-service through BAYANATI system”.

27 Human Resources Services

Shaimaa Al Awadhi said: "The most prominent human resources services provided through the smart application ‘FAHR’, include without limitation, all e-services provided via BAYANATI System, the Federal Government’s preferred training partners initiative "Maaref", the Federal Government employees' discount program "Imtyazat", the Legal Advice Program, and the Federal Government Employees’ Network.

“12 of the 27 public services provided by Smart Application ‘FAHR’ benefit all internal and external customers of entities, as well as Federal Government employees. The other 15 services are linked to BAYANATI System, to serve the Federal Government employees and officials in 57 ministries and federal bodies.”

She added that the most important services of the first category include legal advice program, whereby users can inquire about the federal HR laws and legislation, file objections to federal appeals committees, benefit from the federal government employee discount (Imtyazat) and federal government employees network. They can also access the Authority’s news and agenda of future events, and learn more about its strategic initiatives.

Concerning services provided via BAYANATI, she said that they include: completing all stages of electronic performance management system (PMS) for Federal Government employees, registering for training courses through e-training and development system, inquiring about a specific vacancy in the Federal Government using e-Employment System, applying for a job, providing employee dashboard, and provide line manager’s dashboard, which enables him to follow his employees’ performance and electronically approve applications submitted by employees.