KOTA KINABALU: A total of 555 Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) celebrated 555 of its staff and retirees at the UMS Excellence Awards (AKU) 2022 event held at the Dewan Resital on Wednesday.
Of the total, 160 were recipients of the Excellent Service Award, 76 recipients of the Innovation Award, and 18 were recipents of the “Jasamu Dikenang” Award.
The event also celebrated 18 staff who have served 25 years where they received the Sanjungan Budi Award, 71 others who served for 20 years received the Jasa Setia Award and and 212 staff serving 10 years received the Jasa Bakti Award.
The award ceremony was launched by UMS Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Datuk ChM Ts. Dr. Taufiq Yap Yun Hin.
Also present were UMS Registrar who is also Chairman of the AKU 2022 Organizing Committee, Luqman Ridha Anwar; Deputy Vice Chancellor (Student Affairs and Alumni), Associate Professor Dr. Raman Noordin; Treasurer, Badrul Hisham Ismail; and UMS Legal Advisor, Awang Suhaizam Bungso.
In his speech, Taufiq said that UMS needs to set aspirations and determination in line with the S.W.I.F.T principles highlighted by the Chief Secretary to the State (KSN), Tan Sri Mohd Zuki Ali.
"The principles which is speed, world class knowledge, inspirational, flexible and technology-based is five critical characteristics that must be adopted into the mind and action of civil servants.
"In relation to that, I would like to urge that the UMS family should always have a sense of urgency to act swiftly without delay in every task they are entrusted with.
"This is in the line with the first value of speed to realize the aspirations of the government that place importance on performance and focused on the people among civil servants," he said.
Taufiq said that the second value that should be followed is to acquire world-class knowledge to ensure the implementation of tasks not only follows one’s personal perspective, but also the best practices from locally and abroad as benchmarks.
"The third value is inspirational whereby civil servants must always inspire and motivate their subordinates to create a harmonious environment and a conducive working environment for every staff.
"UMS officers must also be flexible especially when facing challenging situations in service delivery such as fourth value of S.W.I.F.T which is flexible.
"And the fifth and last value is technology-based, whereby all UMS staff must inculcate technology-based values in implementing every task at the office to ensure speedy and comprehensive service delivery," he said.
Taufiq also congratulated all the award recipients at the ceremony.
"May you always succeed and create creative and innovative ideas and strive to excel during the length your service at this university," he said.
