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Qatarization success Factors: A framework for organizations and policymakers
Get PDFState of Qatar has recently witnessed substantial economic growth. Responding to the rapidly increasing business activity, an influx of expatriate workers has been filling the gap between the limited supply and the large demand of skilled and unskilled workers. Faced with the challenge of sustaining its economy on the long run as well as preserving its national identity and culture, Qatar has sought to introduce and implement a workforce nationalization strategy called Qatarization.
Given the interdisciplinary nature of the issue, many factors come to play in impacting the success of a Qatarization program at both the macro-level and the micro-level. This paper aims to highlight the factors that have the most impact on the success of a Qatarization program being executed at the organizational level.
First, a literature review was focused on highlighting different factors and aspects that has been discussed or featured in previous studies from a variety of fields and disciplines. After executing four in-depth interviews with Qatarization experts, a Qatarization Success Factors model was developed containing 19 different aspects that were believed to have an impact on the success of a Qatarization program. Those aspects were categorized according to whether they fall under the direct influence (internal aspects) or indirect influence (external aspects) of an organization executing a Qatarization program.
A self-administrated structured questionnaire was then developed and distributed electronically targeting professionals in Qatar with experiences related to human resources, learning and development, management, or Qatarization. Respondents were asked to rate 19 different statements, each related to an aspect of the model, using a 7-point Likert Scale.
A total of 153 qualified responses were successfully collected and then analyzed using factors analysis. Upon performing the analysis, a total of five factors were extracted and then ranked according to the percentage of variances explained.
The findings of this paper found that factors and aspects related to internal organizational factors had the most impact on the success of the Qatarization program. Next to that were factors related to the national educational structures, followed by national policies, economic regulations, and social and cultural factors respectively
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Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionU of I OnlyThis dissertation is divided into three essays. The first essay focuses on the question of enfranchisement of groups of individuals. Existing research work in the area has not adequately addressed this question. Indeed, previous analyses have focused on the value of a vote for a single individual. We considered a totally different approach whereby the central players are groups of individuals rather than single individuals. Within this framework, we have provided an answer to the question as to why groups of individuals struggle to gain the right to vote. We also provided an explanation of why the group in power may voluntarily extend the franchise to groups which have conflicting preferences.The second essay introduces the concept of coalition structure value to differential information economies. This extends the work of Krasa and Yannelis (1994) who introduced the concept of private value allocation to measure the information superiority of agents in an economy with differential information. The coalition structure value allows us to analyze the implications of coalition structures on the value of information. Contrary to our expectations, we found that the bargaining strength of an agent with superior information does not decrease if the rest of the agents collude and bargain as a unit with him. This is in sharp contrast to the one seller and two buyers example in full information economies where the buyers are better off if they bargain as a unit with the seller.The third paper generalizes the crowding types model introduced by Conley and Wooders (1994a) by allowing variable usage of local public goods within jurisdictions. We investigate the possibility of anonymous decentralizations of core allocations. It turns out that it is possible to decentralize core allocations with anonymous admission prices. However these prices are infinite dimensional. This leads us to investigate Lindahl decentralization. While it is possible to get nonanonymous Lindahl decentralization, the core is generally larger than the set of anonymous Lindahl equilibria.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:19:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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