In adherence with the wise vision of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to adopt excellence as a lifestyle and governmental culture that helps us achieving numerous accomplishments, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) launched the ‘Excellence Days’ initiative to highlight its best practices.
This supports DEWA’s commitment to motivating its staff to actively participate in establishing excellence, creativity, and innovation as daily practices. DEWA has also launched the hashtag ‘#DEWA_Excellence,’ in an effort to further instil a culture of excellence and innovation, by sharing photos and videos about the best local and international practices.
The initiative activities were held at DEWA’s main office, its customer centres in Al Quoz, its Sustainable Building, and in Warsan and Jebel Ali, in addition to its ‘Reading is Positive Energy’ tent at Zabeel Park. The event included a presentation to introduce the initiative and its daily programme, as well as an interactive activity under the theme ‘Test Your Information.’ Dr. Mansoor Al Awar, Dr. Rami Gharaibeh, Mr. Mutaz Alzayadat, Mr. Majd Abbasi, and Mr. Ahmad Al Bedwawi, provided presentations at DEWA’s participating centres. The participants at the Dubai Government Excellence Program 2016 also shared their success stories. Maryam bin Salmin, Islam AbuHamdah, Hamad Jassim Rajab, Raad Nassar, and Matar Al Mehairi shared their success stories.
Maryam Salmin, Deputy Manager of Transmission Equipment Asset Management at DEWA, received the Distinguished Employee in Technical & Engineering at the Dubai Government Excellence Awards 2016. DEWA received the Creative Idea Award at the Dubai Awards for Excellence in Government – 2016 for its Intelligent Fire System Separation from Low Voltage. The idea team was chaired by Matar Suhail Salem Al Mehairi, VP of Distribution Asset Management at DEWA and included Islam Fakhri Mohammed AbuHamda, Assistant Manager of Asset Management, Workshops and Equipment, Usama Omar Mohamed Radwan, First Network Maintenance Engineer (Low Voltage) and Awad Mahmoud Ibrahim AlJawawdeh, Deputy Manager of the Distribution Workshop.
“DEWA will continue its journey towards excellence and continuous achievements. Each time that we reach a summit, we look ahead to the next one, as His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai told us. During Excellence Day, we highlighted DEWA’s efforts to motivate excellence among DEWA’s employees, to whom we give high priority as they are the backbone of DEWA’s success. We are inspired by the words of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who once observed: ‘We look forward to excellence as a challenge rather than an achievement.
Achievement is what we attain for the future of our people; while the march of excellence continues and does not stop at any limits or borders.’ DEWA provides world-class government services and adopts the best international practices to achieve the happiness of our customers, employees and society. We adopt creativity and innovation in our daily operations to further develop our performance, efficiency, and services to the highest international standards,” said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA.
“Excellence Day aims to institutionalise a culture of excellence and implement organisational excellence standards in all our operations within DEWA. We look forward to achieving the happiness of our staff by identifying clear methods to recognise their performance and motivate them while instilling positive energy in the workplace. This is part of our strategy to provide a positive work environment that encourages our staff to actively take part in consolidating creativity and innovation to make it a daily practice and a solid corporate culture, creating an environment that promotes positive competitiveness, enhancing creativity, innovation, and excellence in DEWA,” added Al Tayer.
This year, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum honoured DEWA with 6 awards under the Dubai Government Excellence Program. Three of them were in the Excellence categories: Distinguished Government Entity, Financially Distinguished Performance, Distinguished Entity in Government Communications, Creative Idea Award (for DEWA’s intelligent control system on low-voltage fires), Distinguished Employee Award for technical and engineering for Career Excellence, and the Unknown Soldier Award.
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