New Member [Thread 140306]

Hi ,
I am a new member based in Abu Dhabi. I am planning on doing my research in HR which is part of my MBA. I would very much appreciate if any one of you could suggest a topic, more relevant to Abu dhabi, that I can proceed with.
Regards
Suneeta

Hi Suneeta
Welcome to the Forum. I can suggest you few topics. lets see what you choose from them.
1. Nationalisation in UAE
2. Employee Relations
3. Personnel Mananegement and Human Resource Management differentiating the GAP in UAE
4. Performance Measurement / Management
Cheers
Sajid

Thankyou very much for your prompt response, Sajid. Regarding the topics that you suggested

• Nationalisation in UAE: What would be the scope of such a research?Would it be easy to get information?
• Employee relations: What would this mean?
• I did not quite understand what topic 3 meant. Did you mean that ther are efforts taken by firms to reduce the gap between personnel management and HRM and may be I could investigate on its success?

I was wondering if I could do something on employee retention strategies used by firms and their effectiveness. I do not know if it is a wide topic and an area where I could get information from Abu Dhabi companies?
Any suggestions are always welcome as I donot have much experience in this field.
Regards
Suneeta

Hi Suneeta

Apologise for responding little late.

• Nationalisation in UAE: What would be the scope of such a research?Would it be easy to get information?

This is a very interesting topic in HRM studies, but it again depends from what institution you are doing your masters. As educational institutions would always appreciate your work which is aligned to the demograpics of the origin.

• Employee Relations: What would this mean?

There are several topics integrated under this header, mainly higlighting the Work conditions of employees (Prevailing and should have been's) along with employers responsibilities, comittments towards employees.

• I did not quite understand what topic 3 meant. Did you mean that ther are efforts taken by firms to reduce the gap between personnel management and HRM and may be I could investigate on its success?

If you are stuyding in UAE and preparing your thesis for an institution which is based in UAE, this work of yours I am sure will benefit lot many people. Simple reason behind this is, even now many companys (individuals) continue to consider Personnel management as Human Resource Management. Your work in this subject can elaborate the HRM activites .

But again these are all subjective topics and in general. The topic you chose - employee retention strategies used by firms and their effectiveness. ....

No doubt the topic is good and interesting. But in the current scenario of Global crisis, which has given a very severe blow to one of the pillars in a Business entity - The Human Resources, I am afraid there would be few companies who would entertain you to give you inputs on retainment as they are very much busy planning retrenchments .

Stay intouch

Regards

Sajid Rasheed


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Dear Sajid,

Thankyou very much for the detailed response. I very much appreciate it.

I had done my masters in Economics from Kerala University and was working in a British School for the past 15 years teaching Economics and Business Studies. Since I felt that I my first job need not be my best job I decided on a career move and towards that I enrolled for an online MBA from University of Wales. I did two residential course at the Technopark in Zurich which was mandatory and have just completed all my taught modules. With the Thesis submissal my MBA would be over.
That's pretty much about my career and my academic life.

As you pointed out rightly, at this phase of the business cycle,"Retention" would be a very sensitive topic and firms would not reveal much of the information. However, is it possible to think of retention strategies before and during the recession.

What are the Retention strategies used by firms for nationals, ofcourse they are weather proof.

Let's say I take Nationalisation in UAE, What do you think I can research on? Effectiveness of the programs hitherto used or how to speed up nationalisation?

How do you think I can elaborate on the difference between personal management and human resource mannagement.

Regards
Suneeta

Dear Suneeta,
Welcome to CHR community!!
Sajid is right!! Retention strategies before and during the recession - may not work well in this region. I doubt whether there are any retention strategies at all in UAE. About 90% of the expat population is here for the saving potential - in other words for the big M factor!! Retention is valid only when the demand for a skill is high and the supply is low. Availability of skill is not an issue here since today if I work for AED 20,000/ and leave the organization, there may always be somebody substituting even for AED 15,000/- from another country. Retention would have become a major factor IF the boom had continued. But now??
Nationalisation is a very interesting issue which is relevant to this region
All the best.
Geetha

Dear Geetha,
Thank you very much for the suggestion. If I work on Nationalisation, what do you think wil the areas be that I can study and do you think it will be easy to get information.
Regards
Suneeta

Vow, friends, I think I missed an active communication. Suneeta welcome to the club. First of all let me congratulate you for continuing your education. Kindly continue the discussion here and progress updated so that at any point you need any assistance we are here in this small www world.
All the best.
Ramesh Menon

Hi Suneeta,
In Nationalisation the possible areas are:
i) objectives of nationalisation - its effectiveness
ii) necessity of nationalisation - is it necessary?
iii) effectiveness of nationalisation - is it working?
iv) work culture before and after nationalisation
v) image of Emiratis after nationalisation prg has been introduced
vi) change in approach to education after formal nationalisation prg
vii) recruitment methods for nationals - their effectiveness
These are some broad indicators to the topic. I dont know how easy/difficult it will be get the information. Probably Bruncha maybe of help to you in this.
Hope this helps.
Warm Regards,
Geetha

AHAAAAAAAA ! Guys thats RAMESH.....................! Hi Ramesh.. Where have you been all this time ?? We need your Recruitment / Jobs Link to have more and more updates now.
These are the times when it is mostly visited. Keep it lively pal. And yeah.......sometime back we use to hear from Nassar also. You have any news of him?
Sajid