{
  "id": 19143276,
  "title": "How human-centred leadership is transforming workplace culture",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/how-human-centred-leadership-is-transforming-workplace-culture",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-09T10:53:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/gn-focus/company-news/how-human-centred-leadership-is-transforming-workplace-culture-1.500741136"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "As the Badami Holding Group expands its operations, the focus remains on creating a cohesive organizational culture that evolves alongside the business. To accomplish this, the company is refining its human resources strategy, emphasizing clear policies, structured onboarding, defined roles, and consistent management practices across the group. A key initiative is improving the onboarding experience, ensuring new employees feel welcomed, connected, and proud to be part of the organization from day one.\n\nThe organization recognizes that a unified culture does not imply identical operations in every business unit. Instead, it means that all employees share fundamental values of respect, fairness, accountability, and opportunity, irrespective of their location or background. The group implements simple yet impactful initiatives to foster employee well-being, such as personalized welcome kits, enhanced onboarding programs, and opportunities for employees to celebrate their culture and engage with one another.\n\nLeadership at the Badami Holding Group is proactive in preparing employees for the integration of artificial intelligence and automation while preserving human leadership. The company sees AI as a tool to enhance HR processes, not to diminish human interaction. By leveraging technology to streamline administrative tasks, improve reporting, assist recruitment, and provide valuable workforce insights, HR professionals and managers can concentrate on fostering conversations, facilitating skill development, and addressing employee concerns. However, technology should augment, not supplant, human judgment. While algorithms can identify trends, they cannot fully grasp an individual's potential, personal circumstances, or aspirations.\n\nIn preparing for the future, the organization emphasizes the importance of developing critical thinking and interpersonal skills alongside technological proficiency. As the UAE continues to attract a diverse range of international talent, successful leaders will prioritize embracing diverse perspectives, challenging conventional practices, and fostering environments where employees feel empowered to thrive. For the Badami Holding Group, the key to leadership success lies not only in financial performance but also in employee retention, engagement, development, and the strength of the organizational culture.",
  "summary": "How are you reshaping the people strategy to support business expansion while building a unified organisational culture? As Badami Holding Group continues to expand, my priority is ensuring our people strategy grows alongside the business. Managing diverse operations requires balancing consistency with flexibility. We're strengthening our HR foundations through clearer policies, structured…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}