Leadership Cultural Values of United Arab Emirates-The Case of United Arab Emirates University

Alteneiji, Ebtesam Ali

doi:10.22371/05.2015.011

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“…Higher collectivism and lower individualism remain the norm in the UAE (Alteneiji, 2015;Engin & McKeown, 2017;Willemyns, 2008;Wright & Bennett, 2008). Yet, Hills and Atkins (2013) noted that although values and behavioral norms across UAE workplaces converged with Western work norms, cultural groups reverted to their personal values outside of work.…”

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Positive psychology interventions in the United Arab Emirates: boosting wellbeing – and changing culture?

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As the science of wellbeing has grown, universities have adopted the challenge of prioritizing the wellbeing of students. Positive psychology interventions (PPIs), activities designed to increase the frequency of positive emotions and experiences, which help to facilitate the use of actions and thoughts that lead to human flourishing, are being increasingly used worldwide. Known to boost wellbeing and a number of other variables, it nonetheless remains unknown whether their use can influence other variables in non-Western cultures. In this study, we determined the impact of PPIs on a variety of wellbeing outcomes. The 6-week PPI program was conducted in the United Arab Emirates on Emirati university students (n = 120) who reported more positive emotion and overall balance of feelings that favored positivity over time relative to a control group. Yet, there was no effect found on negative emotions, life satisfaction, perceived stress, fear of happiness, locus of control, or somatic symptoms, and no effect on levels of collectivism or individualism. Our findings nonetheless support the use of PPIs in higher education as they show an increase in the experience of positive emotion, with this in itself bringing positive life outcomes, and no negative impact on culture. Our findings serve to build a foundation for understanding for whom PPIs work best -and least -around the world.

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Section: Culturementioning

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Positive psychology interventions in the United Arab Emirates: boosting wellbeing – and changing culture?

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“…All government regulative and administrative functions in the meetings of the government are carried out in Arabic. But since the majority of the population is foreign, interpreters are hired to translate court proceedings to the plaintiff in multiple possible languages, and research has shown that the majority of the translations are done in English (Al‐Tenaijy, 2015). Most local government websites are increasingly hosting their content in both Arabic and English.…”

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English in the United Arab Emirates

Thomas

2021

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This paper provides a sociolinguistic profile of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a focus on the status and functions of English in contemporary UAE society. With less than a 12 per cent local population, the UAE presents a unique linguistic laboratory for the spread of English among an expanding foreign and a shrinking local demographic. Contributing to the current literature on English in Expanding Circle countries, I first present a sociohistorical review of foreign and English language presence in the UAE from the ninth century to the present day. By employing archival research, governmental artifacts, and first-hand observations, I follow this with a description of contemporary users and the four functions of English in the UAE context. The paper then provides a summary of users' attitudes towards English and Arabic and concludes with an evaluation of key findings and avenues for future research.

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Building a Common Narrative on Employee Performance

Ramachandran

Hosaini

Hammadi

2017

Day 2 Tue, November 14, 2017

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The objective of this paper is to study the impact of building a common narrative in the performance appraisal system for a large Middle East based corporation in its drive to build a performance driven culture. This study assumes even more significance when taking into account the countries nationalistic culture, which has a high power distance index and high uncertainty avoidance index as per the Hofstede Cultural Dimensions Index. Change management initiative is expensive in nature more so, in a pluralistic environment with multiple cultures as the case of the organization under study. The challenge becomes even more difficult if the change is targeted at the existing cultures in the organization. As the authors were part of the change management initiative, the various stages adopted in moving the organization culture from entitlement to performance are analyzed in detail. The use of common narratives and unified performance appraisal methodology, leadership engagement and Normalization process lead to a demonstrated change in the performance appraisal rating for the targeted group of employees. The impact of the common narratives, lead to a decrease in the rating of exceeding and above categories for managers and above by almost 50 %.What it effectively highlights is that the journey to build a performance driven culture is ongoing and it’s through the common narratives and understanding that the desired outcomes can be achieved. Such a large scale study on the impact of building a new performance culture has not been done in the Middle East before. The learnings would be of immense value to organizations wanting to incorporate such changes in the future. In addition, limited papers have adopted the action research method to observe culture creation phenomena in spite of it offering clear insights due to the involvement of the authors in the culture creation.

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Leadership Cultural Values of United Arab Emirates-The Case of United Arab Emirates University

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Positive psychology interventions in the United Arab Emirates: boosting wellbeing – and changing culture?

Positive psychology interventions in the United Arab Emirates: boosting wellbeing – and changing culture?

English in the United Arab Emirates

Building a Common Narrative on Employee Performance

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