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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Nitaqat"”.
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Saudisation in the hospitality industry : management issues and opportunities
… Saudisation and its 2011 compliance initiative, Nitaqat. However, hotels and restaurants are not a traditional career route for Saudis, who often lack customer service skills and dislike the working conditions. This study seeks to understand the effects of the Saudisation and Nitaqat policies, …
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Workforce training for increased productivity in Saudi Arabia
… national workforce to international standards (Nitaqat). International providers are generally employed for face-toface course delivery, using packaged course material. However, non-Saudi trainers generally lack understanding of the Saudi norms, and therefore misinterpret trainees’ responses. …
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Essays in oil, conflict, and the development of resource-rich countries
… This paper studies the 2011 introduction of the Nitaqat program, which imposed a quota system for Saudi hiring at private firms. The analysis uses a unique dataset from the Saudi Ministry of Labor on the full universe of Saudi private-sector firms and exploits kinks in firm incentives generated …
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Executive Influence on Employee Training Effectiveness in Saudi SME Firms
… interest in the twin policies of Saudisation and Nitaqat to replace high levels of foreign labour with qualified Saudis, especially in regards to improving the unskilled labour force for the SME. Whilst research concerning effective training of firms’ employees is available, there are no studies …
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Affirmative Action policy and Labour Market Structure: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
Few public and social policy subjects have attracted as much attention as Affirmative Action Policy (AAP) in social sciences. AAP’s main aim is to eliminate or prevent past discrimination against disadvantaged groups and to enhance their position in society. Its role has become controversial around …