Top marks for Saudi staff of BAE Systems

BAE Systems Saudi Arabia has won a Ministry of Labor Award for Excellence for training and development programs and proud of the productivity of its Saudi employees.
“We provide our Saudi employees with detailed training and support to assist their professional advancement and to help them carry out their duties,” Mohammed Al-Azwari, human resources vice president, said in a statement.
The has also helped the company win the Prince Naif Award for Saudization.
He added: “Our Saudization percentage is now 62 percent, a figure, which will only increase and that the company's commitment was recognized when we won the Prince Naif Award for Saudization in 2011.”
“BAE Systems Saudi Arabia has a long-term relationship with the Kingdom stretching back more than 40 years and is the largest domestic defense supplier in the Kingdom, designing, integrating, and maintaining systems for the government,” he said.
Quoting an Oxford Economics Report on BAE Systems Saudi Arabia, he said that the company's employees’ labor productivity was 2.42 times higher than the national average for the Kingdom.
“This is equivalent to a gross value added of SR 617,121 per employee,” Al-Azwari said.
Oxford Economics is the world leader in global forecasting and quantitative analysis for business and government and it compiled an Economic Impact Study on BAE Systems in Saudi Arabia for 2012.
In 2012, the company had 5,513 employees, of which 57 percent were Saudi nationals, an increase of 19 percent since 1999, and 62 percent of these were employed in highly-skilled positions.