Fathmath Muna has bagged Women Personality of the Year Award

Fathmath Muna has bagged Women Personality of the Year Award

• September 17, 2021

"I'm an independent & career-oriented woman who fought to overcome the challenges that life has thrown at me; step ahead with the career to shape the changes in my life and look forward to enhancing my efficiency and the aim of serving my nation." – Muna. F

Miss. Fathmath Muna has been serving more than 15 years and holds many different positions in the Government of Maldives. She has a wide range of experience in the Public Service Sector and mostly dealt with HR Management, Finance, and Corporate Administrative work. She started her career in the year 2005 at Ga. Atoll Office as a Secretory and now holds Director-General position at Maldives Media Council (MMC). She holds the utmost senior technical designation in the civil service sector who provides expertise to other subordinates with coordination of all the HR technical and administrative activities of the organization. She is the In-Charge of Management Service Department of Maldives Media Council. Her main responsibility is planning, managing and functioning all the mandatory activities and allocating budget, dedicating responsibility to other staff, directing and controlling the activities in all units of the Maldives Media Council. Basically, she dealt with recruiting new staff, training them to retain potential employees to work more efficiently working towards organizational goals. Since 2016, she is the Financial Controller and HR Section Head of MMC. In addition to this, she is responsible Chairperson of ‘Agency Tender Committee’ and ‘Muraaja’ah Committee’. Furthermore, she is also a Vice-Chairperson of the Human Resource Management & Development (HRMD) Committee. Also, she worked with other government ministries. After completing her First Degree, she transferred to the Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure in November 2013. At that time, she was Assistant Director head of the procurement section. As a Procurement Manager, she worked to manage a team, set procedures & policies to manage procurement, made purchasing decisions by meeting the requirements within the budget. At the same time in the year 2015, she was designated Vice President of Hiya Recreation club ruled by the Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure. In April 2012, she joined the Ministry of Health as an Assistant Human Resource Officer. In 2016 she was apportioned as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

Apart from the government sector She also has served various capacities of works in public and private institutes in the Maldives. Throughout her experience in the government & private sectors, obtained MBA from 2016 – 2018 then she was a part-time lecturer at Avid College and has taught different management modules. From 2018 -2020 she was a Board of Advisor at HR Maldives. Since 2009, Miss. Muna has successfully managed to keep her hobby's close by, such as designing and sewing work more professional manners in her spare time https://www.facebook.com/MunniDesigns/messages/ Currently she is the owner of Munni’s Design, who runs the business as a Sole Proprietorship. She is a proud woman who has been awarded Asian HR Leadership Award “Women at Leadership Award” in the year 2019 which was held in Dubai Mall. This was Asian HR leadership award that recognized the achievement made by selected high profile candidates from Asia. 

However, when looking into her academic career she has pursued an MBA, Bachelor of Business Management & Marketing, and Certificate in Leadership in Office Management. After completing her post-graduate, Double-blind peer-reviewed research papers has been published in SCOPUS Index Journals. She got an opportunity to conduct a research area of business/management specialized in Human Resource Management (HRM). Until today she has published three papers. In 2020 she published one paper entitled “Factors Affecting Recruitment and Selection Practice on Performance of Civil Service Organization in the Maldives’. The second paper also was published in 2020 titled “Recruitment and Selection Practices in The Maldivian Civil Service Organization”. Her Third Paper was published in 2021 titled “Effectiveness of Recruitment and Selection practices in Maldives Civil Service Sector: An Empirical Analysis”. All these research papers have been rigorously adding value to the knowledge of academia and HR practitioners across the world. Besides in a short period, her research work has been published in worldwide recognized Journals and people are reading her publications. Her papers could be accessible to a wide range through Google Scholar, Research Gate, and Academia. 

Apart from publications, during the pandemic (COVID 19) she represented the country Maldives by presenting her academic research papers in several international research conferences, and other social media platforms. Miss Muna Fathmath’s conference papers were selected from the huge number of submissions from different countries. She was the only woman who represented the country Maldives in the 4th International Scientific Conference 2021, (Greece) by presenting the paper entitled “Analyse the Recruitment and Selection Theories and Practical Implications of Civil Service Sector”. By presenting a paper called “Examining A Moderating Effect of Employee Turnover Between Recruitment and Selection Practice and Organizational Performance in Maldives Civil Service Sector”. In a Global Conference Service Retail Management 2021, (USA & Italy) and presenting the paper to 3rd Scientia International conference 2020, (Malaysia) titled “Effectiveness of Recruitment and Selection practices in Maldives Civil Service Sector: An Empirical Analysis”. On top of that after accomplishment in research publications and conference paper’s she’s a Reviewer of Academy of Strategic Management Journal since July 2021 - (United Status, SCOPUS Journal) and International peer-review member of the International Research Journal of Science, Technology, Education, and Management since Aug 2021 (the Philippines, open-access Journal).    

Miss. Muna Fathmath is Career Oriented, Independent, and Empowered Women, and Women Leader in HR who pursues sharing her knowledge and experience in a personal and professional way. Therefore, she delivered her key- Note Speak at UN Sustainable Development Goals – 17 Summit, 2021 (Trade Preneur Global Academic Platform, UK & India). Also, she was a Key-Note Speaker at World Peace Summit India 2021. Many different countries have been presented in these international conferences, but she was the only woman who has represented the country Maldives. She’s a delighted and proud woman (Women Leader in HR) who shares her knowledge in the field of Management, Human Resource, and Languish that aspires to inspire others by serving the nation within her integrity. Her biggest Strength is interpersonal and leadership skills. Her motive is “Be an Independent and empower women who get out from the nutshell by breaking the barriers, and other blockages”. 

At this point now Muna Fathmath is honored to receive the prestigious Women Icon, Women Excellence Award 2021, powered by Times Women. Here Miss Muna Fathmath expresses her deepest thanks to Times Women Icon for the acknowledgment and evaluation of her work. This recognition award has motivated her to conduct value-added research to fill the knowledge gap and build a career to serve the nation by developing and building others. At this moment she is very much grateful to her family for being the closest kin in the world. They are her biggest motivators and who understand her so well. She believed every now and then they encouraged and helped her throughout the journey. On top of that her sincere gratitude to Dr. Ahmad Albattat for being such a supportive and inspiring Mentor. She is eternally grateful for the lessons that she has learned from all the hardships; rejections, ignorance, career blockages, troubles have made her so strong to become such a great woman personality in the Maldives.