IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-25096-7_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Saudi Managerial Environment: A Review Essay and Lecture

In: Business and Economic Development in Saudi Arabia

Author

Listed:
  • Abdulrahman Garawi
  • Mary E. Schmidt

Abstract

Human resources planners must respond to the quantitative as well as the qualitative needs of an economy when deciding development strategies. Saudi Arabia’s strategy for overcoming deficiencies in both the quality and quantity of human resources is well known: after decades of importing labour a policy of ‘Saudisation’, or replacing foreign employees with Saudi workers, is now in place. But planners must also show the same resolve to address the qualitative difficulties faced by the Kingdom’s indigenous labour force. Although Saudi Arabia has been able to afford to hire expatriate employees, finance higher education for its youth and provide vocational training for workers, a higher-quality performance at the managerial level is needed to achieve continued diversification.

Suggested Citation

  • Abdulrahman Garawi & Mary E. Schmidt, 1996. "The Saudi Managerial Environment: A Review Essay and Lecture," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: J. W. Wright (ed.), Business and Economic Development in Saudi Arabia, chapter 5, pages 87-96, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25096-7_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25096-7_6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25096-7_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.