...Doing Business in Saudi Arabia 1) Prepare a short description of the most striking cultural characteristics that may affect business interaction in this country. Doing business in Saudi Arabia requires significant research if I expect to be successful. There are many cultural differences that must be taken in consideration prior to and during business interactions. The Saudi Arabian culture, its shared values and norms, is distinctly different from our western culture. Saudi Arabian social structure emphasizes a group rather than individualism. Saudi’s are more likely to identify themselves as a part of something (e.g., “I am from Exxon Mobil”) rather than identifying their individual role (e.g., “I am an engineer”). It will also be important to understand the social stratification within Saudi Arabia. Having a working knowledge of the significance of the tribal affiliations as well as the varied groups of which someone can be a part will help me to understand which individuals I need to approach and build relationships with in order to be successful in the region. It will also be incredibly important for me to understand the role of religion, specifically Islam, in the region and how it affects work ethic, business decisions, and simple logistics throughout the day. As Americans, we are focused on our work and we allow very little to get in the way of our accomplishments. Saudi’s are very different. Work is secondary to many things, most notably, religion...
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...The Arab world is so varied in culture, leadership and follows different strains of Islam or have greater of fewer mixes of religion. Changes are inevitable. One of the most influential changes witnessed by the Arab world is the change in role of women. There was a time in the past when the women were suppressed and treated like a different species. They were confined to their homes, especially the walls of the kitchen. Later on, waves of feminism were seen in workplaces and outside. The percentage of women in workforce has quadrupled in 4 decades. The number of Arab women attending schools and universities have increased from 13% to 70% in 3 decades. The tremendous economic development over time has had an enormous impact on women. In UAE, the discovery of oil has contributed in women's role in workplace. We find Arab women not only behind the curtains of their houses but also as entrepreneurs, designers, in the field of science, IT, commerce, media, cinema, law and even in the army. Improved health care, education, jobs, facilities have made Arab women independent and self confident. Interlaq project in UAE encourages women to take up jobs in government departments. Most of the Arab nations have recognized and appreciated women although there are places even now where they do not enjoy full freedom. Even in leadership , women are at par with men. The Arab parliaments approved constitutional amendments to give women full potential rights, starting from Syria in 1949, Lebanon...
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...Unit 1 – The Business Environment P1 – Describe the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting businesses Done by Fatima Shafique 12 G2 * Emaar (Profit orientated business) Emaar is a real-estate company which is based in the United Arab Emirates. It is currently the Persian Gulf region's largest land and real estate developer. With over 60 companies, Emaar's activities include property investment and development, property management services, education, healthcare, retail and hospitality sectors, as well as investing in financial service providers. Type of ownership: Public Joint Stock Company (public limited) Liability: Limited liability Size: Emaar is extending its expertise in developing master-planned communities internationally, and has a significant presence in several key global markets with established operations in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Turkey, USA and Canada. It employs over 10,000 people and has over 60 companies. Revenue: $3.307 billion (2010) Sector: Secondary sector Purpose: to transform Emaar into a one-stop, global solution provider for lifestyle, including homes, work, play, leisure, retail, health, education, finance, industry and more. * Dubai Autism Centre (Nonprofit organization) Since November 18th2001 The Dubai Autism Center began the creation of its various services targeted towards encouraging...
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...Managers Job in Context Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 2 2.0 Organizational Background – Al-Rajhi Bank 2 3.0 Requirements and Job Description of Branch Manager 3 4.0 Mr. Anasari’s key people – internal and external interactions 4 4.1 Internal Interactions 4 Human Resource Manager 4 Loan Officer 5 Credit Manager 5 Bank Operational Manager 7 Customer Service Manager 7 4.2 External Interactions 8 Saudi Arabian chambers of commerce 8 Customers 8 5.0 Nature and evaluation of interdependencies 8 6.0 Recommendations 11 7.0 References 12 1.0 Introduction The role of managers nowadays has evolved greatly over the past years and it has changed significantly in different industries. One thing that remains the same is that managers are always held responsible by their supervisors, to make sure the employees achieve their objectives with expectations. The key to a success and profitable business are neither the systems nor the strategies of the firm. It is the character and skill of individual managers, who practice what they preach are what counts, that is why hiring the right manager is essential in supervising and managing the overall performance of staff in their department (Robbins, 2001). ‘People in the organisation are your most important asset’ is an incorrect statement; because I believe the right people are the organisation’s most important asset. Therefore, companies should hire based on the correct individual’s attitude and behaviour for the company...
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...The Conflict Summary: In April of 2013, The Yemen Post published a story about an oil conflict rising between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Egyptian newspaper, al-Masry al-Yom, quoted in the story, refers to the conflict as the “Yemen - Saudi Arabia new Oil conflict” (Yemen Post) implying preexisting disputes between the two countries regarding the extraction of natural resources. Until 2012, Yemen's officials embraced its country's world-wide image as the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula with depleted natural resources. However, starting with the resignation of then president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the discovery of large petrol deposits in earth pockets worth up to several billion dollars were made public. Yemen's close neighbor, Saudi Arabia, the superpower of oil exports in the region, is becoming more uneasy, especially after rough estimates predicting that soon Yemen could be “home to much of the world's oil and gas resources, maybe just as much as Saudi Arabia itself”(Yemen Post). Experts from Yemen Post are also speculating that the newly discovered fortune could be the answer to Yemen's current unemployment rate, poverty, illiteracy and other problems. With vast natural resources, arable lands, key geographical location and military potential, Yemen could soon challenge the superpower of Saudi Arabia in the region. The disputes over borders between the two countries dating back to the Saudi-Yemen war in 1934 could soon resurface especially with Saudi Arabia resuming...
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...To: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton From: Chad Meyer, Country Desk Officer for Qatar Re: Recommended U.S. Foreign Policy towards Qatar Date: October 22, 2012 Overview of Qatar Qatar is a peninsula located in the Persian Gulf. This small country used to be known as a pearling state and has grown into one of the largest oil and natural gas producers in the world. The government is a monarchy and has been ruled by the Al Thani family since the mid 1800’s. The current Emir is HAMAD bin Khalifa Al Thani who took power from his father in 1995. The previous Emir was crippling the economy by siphoning off oil revenues; HAMAD overthrew his father in a bloodless coup and then filed a lawsuit requiring him to pay back the money he had taken from the country. The case was settled and HAMAD bin Khalifa Al Thani stayed in power. In 2001, Qatar settled a land dispute with Saudi Arabia with the help of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Since this time, Qatar has managed to stay out of the conflicts that have plagued the region as of late. Recently, Qatar has become the world’s wealthiest country in terms of GDP. In 2011, they passed Luxembourg with a per capita GDP income totaling $102,700. The country has plans to continue growth, announcing a plan to invest $60 billion in infrastructure and will host the 2022 World Cup. The country is expecting 18% to 20% growth in the economy as they near the World Cup. This type of growth...
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...‘A spoonful of sugar’ you may call it but the first ever female directed movie entirely shot in Saudi Arabia Wadjda posed a great question to the conservative society of Saudi Arabia, whether women should be secluded inside their houses or not. Wadjda a 10 year old girl living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia signs on for her school's Quran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest so that she can race with her school friend Abdullah. This simple context becomes extraordinarily complex when you will find that the country is run by Sharia Law, women cannot drive their own car, women have to sit in a different section of a restaurant, and women are escorted to the shopping malls, houses or any events by their father, brother or husbands! Director Haifaa Al Mansour was forced to shot the film often hiding from a covered van, empty road, shouting through a walkie talkie from 50-60 feet away from the shooting spot so that she did not get caught by the Saudi Sharia Police. As Saudi Arabia has no cinema theatre and ban on cinemas, it is quite a challenge for the director to fight the Saudi censorship and release the movie inside the country to break the age old religious shackles, tradition for the women as well as the male attitude towards them. Being an Oscar nominated film, Wadjda represents such an unfamiliar society where no woman has ever made it to the family tree diagram but yet the film gives...
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...Assignment 2: Title Name Professor name Campus Course Date School Sociology of Development (Saudi Arabia): You compare the Human Development (HDI) and Gender Empowerment (GEM) in your country of study. Consult with the UNDP web site at http://www.undp.org for data on your country of study. When analyzing the Human Development (HDI) and Gender Empowerment (GEM) in the country of Saudi Arabia, one will find that although in the past several years the country of Saudi Arabia has emerged in regards to overall development, there still remains to be a significant gap of progression between men and women. Through various economic and social development processes, Saudi Arabia has clearly taken a step in the right direction at promoting more or less, equal opportunities for women. These steps are carefully calculated and manifest at an extremely slow pace due to the fact the country does not want to conflict with Islamic Law, which is the doctrine that governs the country itself as well as surrounding Islamic countries. According to data compiled by the United Nations Development Progamme (UNDP), women in the Arabic world represent 2/3 of illiterates and have a higher unemployment rate than men. Just recently within the past decade or so, more women in Saudi Arabia are increasing their educational levels and this fact alone is, and has been attributing to the overall progression of human development and gender empowerment within...
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...On February 1st, the participants of Duke of Edinburgh, I being one of them, were sent to Thumamah Desert located on the outskirts of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The purpose of Duke of Edinburgh is to give students a taste of how it feels like to live in nature and away from the modern world. Experiencing the climb of sharp and hilly mountains, learning how to use a GPS and how to calculate bearings as well as timings. Duke of Edinburgh was a wonderful experience for me, it also gave me a good excuse to spend two days with my friends! A desert is a massive land where little precipitation occurs and living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. A desert is formed by weathering processes as large variations in temperature between day and night put strains on the rocks which consequently break in pieces. Our aim, as the group, was to find out how fossils were produced in the desert. After doing a lot of research and exploring, we came up with a conclusion that these desert fossils were produced a very, very long time ago when the ground was covered with sea. As years went by, water dissolved leaving all the plants and sea shells behind as well as the seabed. This then turned into desert and all the sea shells turned into fossils. There is evidence that this desert was covered by sea because when we were walking, we observed wave strokes on sand and in some parts the sand was weaker than others. A desert is packed with adventures and obstacles for people to challenge. Our...
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...Company Background Chilyn’s Pharmacy and Convenience store is a family business established by the Ong family residing in Jolo Sulu. This store has two branches. One located in Jolo, Sulu and the other in Putik, Zamboanga City. The branch located in Putik, Zamboanga City is actually the second branch of the said store. Chilyn’s Pharmacy and Convenience Store is owned by Mrs. Micheline Ong and the management of such business is given to Ms. Jaydellyne T. Ong. Chilyn’s Pharmacy and Convenience Store here in Zamboanga commenced its business last Nov. 5, 2011 while the one located in Jolo, Sulu has been in the business for two years already. System Background The store uses a manual inventory system and sales system in monitoring its inventory and sales level. The systems used on both branches do not differ so much. Both branches has a manual inventory system wherein they personally and manually check the remaining inventory in their store room and uses only a calculator in computing for the total costs of the products bought by customers Problem Statement Matrix |PROJECT: point of sale inventory management system/electronic cash |PROJECT MANAGER: SUV2D | |register | | |CREATED BY: SUV2D/SAUSVAVIDA |LAST UPDATED BY: Saipudin, Ivy Rose C. ...
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...السيــــــــــــــــرة الذاتيــــــــــــــــــة (عربي) المعلــــومات الشخصيــــة: الإسم الحالة الإجتماعية الجنسية تاريخ ومكان الميلاد : يفضــل كتابة الميلاد هجري وميلادي العنوان: مثــلآ تكتب الرياض / العليا ويحتـــــــوي العنوان أيضآ على ارقام الاتصال فيك من (جوال ,بيت,إيميل..) جوال : منزل: ص.ب : E.MAIL: ملاحظـــة: يستحســــــــن وضع خط فاصل بين كل فقره عن كتابة السيرة الذاتيه السجـــل التعليمــي او المؤهلات العلمية *يفضــــــل كتابة مؤهلاتك العلميه من آخر شهادة إلى اول شهادة مثــلآ(1/حاسب إلي 2/ثانوية عامة) ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ الخبـــــرة *الخبــــــــــــــرة نقطة جدآ مهمه للذكر ..إذا ما كان عندك خبرة لاتكتب هذي الفقرة نهايئ وانتبه تكتبها ..وتكتب لايوجد ألغـــي الفقره اذا ماعندك خبرة.. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ الـــدورات: *يفضــــــــــل كتابة الدورات التدريبه من الاحدث إلى الاقدم.. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ المهــــارات: *هـــــــذي نقطة جدآ مهمه هي الي بتساعدك في حصولك على الوظيفه كثر مدح في نفسك بس هــــاه لاتكثر بهارات بعدين تتوهق ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ الهوايـــــات: *هـــــــذي نقطة جدآ مهمه هي الي بتساعدك في حصولك على الوظيفه كثر مدح في نفسك بس هــــاه لاتكثر بهارات بعدين تتوهق ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ الهدف: *يجـــــــــــــب ان تذكر طموحك الوظيفي في الرغبه للوصول الى القمه والتطوير الوظيفي العملي والعلمي..ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــ المعرفين : *هــــــــــــــــــــذي نقطة...
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...Ascription I believe that Gulf Arab Audience do behave this way and to support my opinion, I would say that yes, sir name is a big consideration in GAA society as you said, not only that, but physical appearance could also act as a huge impact in showing who you are, for example if you are dressed elegantly such as branded clothes, then in then in the case you have mention above this clearly gives the interviewer an impression that you have high stats, which will result into you to have more opportunity to get the job and that just because of the way you look it defines you! Another reason why Gulf Arab Audience is consider as ascription is because they differentiate between genders, for example, women in gulf Arab society, are not encouraged to work in areas where a heavy work is being done, and this is because her status in society does not allow her to do this or it is not expected for her to do it and that because she is a woman! Collectivism I believe that the Gulf Arab Audience does behave as collectivism and to approve that I will mention two examples to let you understanding this point. The best example of that GAA behave as a collectivism is that the charity has a big space in the community and specially the secret charity, as the people in this community really care about the other and they give amount of their money to the people whom in need to this money to avoid the situation of suffering the deprivation of anything that these people could feel, they act as...
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...To: Jozko Mrkvicka MBA (jozef.mrkvicka@vratna-golf.eu) Subject: Recommendations – Spanish Business Etiquette Dear Mr. Mrkvicka, My name is Silvia Machanova and I work as assistant at PR Division in our company. I was asked by PR supervisor Mr. Novak to prepare the summary of Spanish business communication. Relationship and communication of Spanish people • Before making any decision and business negotiating Spaniards usually prefer to make relationship with business partner. As might be expected, the first meeting will be introductory to get to know each other. • In general, Spanish people prefer face-to-face contact rather than word form of communication. • Spain is hierarchical country and it is advisable to know and to have respect to the position of the person you are negotiating with. Probably, you will discuss with the people at the same level in the company like your own. However, the final decision is usually made by the top management of the company. • Verbal communication in Spain is quite loud, very emotional and theatrical with lots of gestures. This comes from the extrovert character of Spanish people; this way is showed their enthusiasm. Meeting Etiquette in Spain • Appointment should be made well in advance by mail, supported by telephone. Business meetings start on time and have formal language. Agenda is used but is not followed too strictly. • During introduction business partner usually shake their hands. • Printed material (including...
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...Zamboanga, the pride of Mindanao as they call it has been my home for the 15 years of my existence. The society was and is never perfect. It has its own fair share of struggles as any other society experiences. The biggest struggle in the city of Zamboanga is maintaining peace and order which long process has been constantly bruised and battered. Peace and order which is for the benefit of all the people living in the city is needed for the people to fully live their lives. It is needed so that the city can focus on developing the society and bringing out the best from whatever resources it is endowed with. What has been going on for years is the asserting selfish deeds of individuals who insist on having things go their way. Hence, the murders, thefts, homicides, kidnappings and many other man-caused tragedies are prevalent. Officials and the people of the city make no big effort or bring out strong will to change these ways and transform them into loving acts for the good of all people. There are numerous threatening events that happened here in Zamboanga where society was gravely put in danger. Since the city is near ARMM, it’s in Mindanao, rebel and free groups against the government such as the MILF, MNLF, and Abu Sayaff get plenty of chances to harm people and demand overwhelming things for themselves. All people have seen how brutal they carry out their means for their selfish ends. These groups are against the Philippine government and demand through militaristic means...
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...Describing a place where I have been Cancun is a wonderful place to visit because when I was there, it felt like a dream come true. When I was there I could admire the beauties of that beautiful city like the Mayan World its great pyramids and cities, the beauty of the underwater World, and to enjoy those romantic ambiences that surround me. I think it is one of the most romantic places on Earth. Cancun is a great place to visit because I can learn about the Mayan World, explore the underwater World, and it is a great place for romance. When I was in the city of Tulum I was surprised because I knew it was a very important city, and it was the first fishing port in Mexico that was built by the Mayans. I really liked the design of the pyramids and the location since the way they did build the pyramids has a meaning all the way from the location of the buildings and the order of the pyramids. Everything was built with stones, and the city was surrounded by a large wall made of stones and only the highest ranking leaders lived in the pyramids and the rest of the people lived outside the city. Something that got my attention was that in the city of Tulum were thousands of Iguanas all over the place and that animal had a spiritual meaning for them. Tulum is surrounded by beautiful turquoise color waves and white sand that I was able to see all over Cancun, and a very important factor is that the weather is warm so I was able to enjoy the place and walk comfortably with my shorts...
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