TY - JOUR
T1 - Emiratisation
T2 - Determining the factors that influence the recruitment decisions of employers in the UAE
AU - Forstenlechner, Ingo
AU - Madi, Mohamed T.
AU - Selim, Hassan M.
AU - Rutledge, Emilie J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy for the research funding that made this research possible.
PY - 2012/1
Y1 - 2012/1
N2 - The Arab Gulf's labour market is being overhauled. The private sector is increasingly being 'obliged' to more actively support nationalisation programmes. This study seeks to quantitatively determine the recruitment decisions of the employers. We collated the views of just under 250 UAE-based HRM personnel, in order to identify which factors (social, cultural, economic, regulatory, educational and motivational) are most significant as cited in the relevant literature. Not having the necessary educational qualifications and high reservation wage demands were found to have less of a bearing than does the perceived lack of vocationally orientated motivation and the ambiguities over the differing rights afforded to employees.
AB - The Arab Gulf's labour market is being overhauled. The private sector is increasingly being 'obliged' to more actively support nationalisation programmes. This study seeks to quantitatively determine the recruitment decisions of the employers. We collated the views of just under 250 UAE-based HRM personnel, in order to identify which factors (social, cultural, economic, regulatory, educational and motivational) are most significant as cited in the relevant literature. Not having the necessary educational qualifications and high reservation wage demands were found to have less of a bearing than does the perceived lack of vocationally orientated motivation and the ambiguities over the differing rights afforded to employees.
KW - Arab Gulf labour markets
KW - Emiratisation
KW - UAE
KW - labour nationalisation
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U2 - 10.1080/09585192.2011.561243
DO - 10.1080/09585192.2011.561243
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84858959717
SN - 0958-5192
VL - 23
SP - 406
EP - 421
JO - International Journal of Human Resource Management
JF - International Journal of Human Resource Management
IS - 2
ER -