Science and work are the way of development and we have to choose!

Considering planning as the method for human work that aims at taking actions, in the present time, to reap future benefits is not a new view but emerged with the beginning of human thought. Our Islamic religion confirms the status of planning in the Islamic human life. However, the concept of planning was not commonly used in the writings of economists, socialists, managers or even educators but in the mid of the second half of the twentieth century.

If we want to identify the features of planning which they adopt, we find them centered on a concept that links work with science, planning is an organized process through which the abilities of the scheme are clear in selecting the best possible solutions and exploiting the available possibilities to achieve a certain goal. This process aimed at providing the labor force - as a productive agent – with science, knowledge, skills and values through the education and training systems, which the more grew in the community, the rates of economic growth increased, and the relationship between economic development and human resources development firmed-up.

The qualitative dimension of the human production element affects more than the quantitative dimension in the level of individual productivity level and his income too and then in economic development.

The public objectives and strategic bases of Saudi development plans particularly the seventh stated the need to develop manpower, and continuing emphasis on increasing its participation and raising its efficiency through rehabilitation and training to meet the requirements of the national economy and replace the Saudi labor force with the foreign labor.

This requires us the need to take decisions and actions to pave the way for investment in human resources, because the level of skills, culture and intellect of the working individual are the basic determinants for human energies. This also provide its owner with the capacity to adapt to changing circumstances and the renewal of skills, where education and training promote the productivity level of manpower and thus contribute in the growth and development of economic process.

We conclude from the foregoing that the economic and technological development makes it necessary to care for quality and quantity together, especially in the first stages of development. It is time to prepare the qualified and trained people and to consider that as an investment which we shall benefit from its results in the future, and each of us has to choose!