The Human Resources and Administration Department is responsible for personnel management, organizational development, human resource development, and training. Personnel management incorporates recruiting staff and their advancement, dealing with labor relations, salaries, employees leaving, retirement, and employees' and pensioners' personal problems. Organizational development includes carrying out organizational reviews at different levels to improve efficiency and work procedures and methods, and to determine the staffing level required to fulfill the Bank's roles. The Department introduces advanced technology into work procedures, and sets the work norms and standards required for employees' efficient functioning and welfare. The Bank sets great store by the development of human resources, and this is reflected by training, the assessment of employees and their performance, promoting their mobility, and awarding prizes for improvements in efficiency.
Administration covers finance, buildings and equipment, security, and publications.
Financial activity consists mainly of making the Bank's administrative payments, and incorporates making computerized bookkeeping entries and transferring data to the Bank's main accounting system. It also covers the preparation of the Bank's annual budget and following up on its performance. The Building and Equipment Unit is responsible for the maintenance of the Bank's buildings and technological systems, office equipment and machinery, the provision of office services to the various departments, the purchase of goods and services, stock control, and the Bank's fleet of vehicles. The sec urity unit is responsible for guarding the Bank's buildings, for checking security procedures of the firms the Bank deals with regarding printing money, for guarding consignments, and for holding the money stocks. The unit is also responsible for classifying the security level of the different jobs in the Bank, and for undertaking security checks of candidates before they are employed.