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on productivity in Etisalat
Table of Contents
1.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 8
1.2 Etisalat a leading Telecom Company in UAE ............................................................................................... 10
1.3 Etisalat Services Holding ........................................................................................................................... 11
1.4 Global operations of Etisalat ...................................................................................................................... 12
1.5 Strategic business approach in Etisalat ....................................................................................................... 14
2.1 Background of the study ....................................................................................................................... 18
2.2. Diversity in work-force .............................................................................................................................. 21
3.1 Development ............................................................................................................................................ 24
3.2 Workforce Diversity in the organization ....................................................................................................... 25
3.3 Advantages of Diversity at the Work-place .................................................................................................. 27
3.4 Influence of Workforce on Productivity ........................................................................................................ 27
3.5 Confronts of Diversity at the Workplace ...................................................................................................... 28
3.6 Problem statement.................................................................................................................................... 29
3.6.1Research problem .............................................................................................................................. 30
3.7 Objectives of this research ........................................................................................................................ 30
3.7.1 Theoretical Assumptions .................................................................................................................... 31
4.1 Conceptual Structure ................................................................................................................................ 33
4.2 Elaboration of the Conceptual Structure ...................................................................................................... 33
4.2.1 Workforce Diversity and corporate business performance ...................................................................... 33
4.3 Diversity of age ........................................................................................................................................ 36
4.4 Diversity of Gender ................................................................................................................................... 37
4.5 Work Experience Diversity ......................................................................................................................... 38
4.6 Diversity of Culture ................................................................................................................................... 39
4.7 Employee appointment.............................................................................................................................. 40
4.8 Multidimensional Facets of Workforce Diversity on Firm Productivity ............................................................. 40
4.9 Closing Comments ................................................................................................................................... 42
5.1 Research Method ..................................................................................................................................... 45
5.2 Expressive indicators ............................................................................................................................. 45
5.3 Dataset .................................................................................................................................................... 46
6.0 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................... 49
References: ................................................................................................................................................... 50
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Appendix A .................................................................................................................................................... 53
Appendix A1 (Glossary) .................................................................................................................................. 56
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Abstraction
This research report examines the approach various features of work-force diversity explicitly gender, work
experience, age and philosophy can expressively influence the productive activity of organizations with
explicit orientation to telecom company, Etisalat in UAE. Work-force diversity has developed to be an
ethical, communal, and cost-effective factor along with a legal accountability of establishment. The worth of
diversity at the work-place is also turn out to be a key business deliberation of most establishments.
Adjacent and continuous courtesy to the concerns of work-force diversity is significant for the reason that it
struggle directing to underprivileged employee dealings and low operative engagement. Work-force
diversity concerns may also undesirably affect an organizations community standing, attractiveness and
can expressively intimidate the lowest line. The report auxiliary seeks to observe as to whether the
employee appointment moderates the association between workers diversity and administrative
performance. Based on the analysis of sources, this report produces a conceptual model that enlightens
how an incorporation of various work-force diversity features may inspiration the performance of a telecom
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Acknowledgement
I would like to thanks to all my family members and friends who always come to
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Chapter One
Introduction
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1.1 Introduction
A pioneer telecom organization, Etisalat is the trademark name of the primary telecommunication
organization in the United Arab Emirates. It commenced in 1976 by way of land line phone services
supplier and extended its services during the course of the years to concealment Internet, cellular phone,
Telecommunication organizations are accountable for offering the modern technology and facilities in the
arena of vocal sound and data communiqu. Cell phones work at the present time on a machinery called
GSM which stands for Global System for Mobile communication. Etisalat also offer other facilities like
directing messages and documents between clients unfluctuating if they are wandering outdoor the
country.
The topic of this report/project is very interesting because the concept of Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) is a comprehensive alternative expression, a canopy term which comprises of both
Information Technology (IT) and Communications Technology beneath its fold. Truthfully, it is a very broad
term used to mention to the accurately immeasurable areas of systematic studies and procedures used in
the management of telecommunications; media supervision and transmission, intellectual systems, data
management, processing, storing and conduction, network based results in addition to audio pictorial
monitoring processes.
With an emergent market and cumulative competition, provision quality has developed an imperative
means of diversity and track to attain business achievement. To complete the similar, UAE telecom
companies are speedily acclimating to new technological requirements and are fetching more client-
oriented, concentrating on customer requirements quite than product structures. For example, telecom
suppliers have stimulated outside vending connectivity to company customers and now recommend
complete network and safety solutions. UAE telecommunication corporations are becoming progressively
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concerned with the perception of client-centricity, making a shift from outdated product-oriented attitude to
Figure 1
There are numerous key scopes to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a constantly shifting and multifaceted arena of science
that is why no reservation is there that lots of people discover it mystifying. We always must to be at the
highest with the modern happenings in the arena so that to stay appropriate. Though, in order to be
trustworthy citizen, having at minimum some elementary level of facts of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) and in what way to make practice of it to be supplementary creative, is important, and
regulates how proficient we shall be as share of the contemporary society which depend on Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) for practically the whole thing. This is the reason that digital
The goal of the first chapter is to present the topic. The idea is to acquaint the people with inspiration,
present features of corporate values/culture and its character in enabling employee inspiration in addition to
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1.2 Etisalat a leading Telecom Company in UAE
In United Arab Emirates (UAE), Etisalat is known as one of the worlds foremost telecom groups in incipient
markets. In the market Etisalats present share is more than 132 billion AED (36 billion USD). By means of
stated net returns of AED 51.7 billion and gross profit of AED 8.3 billion during the year of 2015, Etisalat
rampant amongst the highest profitable telecom groups in all over the world. Its extraordinary credit
rankings at AA-/A+/Aa3 reveal the companys robust balance sheet and confirmed long-term
accomplishment (etisalat.com).
Etisalat was founded four decades back in the UAE as the first communications service supplier in the
country. Head office of Etisalat is in Abu Dhabi. A global top-class organization, Etisalat as a telecom
company delivers state-of-the-art solutions and facilities to 163 million customers in 17 countries crossways
The mission of Etisalat is to deliver a finest in class total client experience nationally and globally, deliver
striking returns to stakeholders while capitalizing in the long tenure future of the corporation, and supporting
Ambitious to be the furthermost respected telecom group in developing markets, Etisalat endeavors to
constantly adoptive innovation and provide earliest in market technologies in its operations. This is
demonstrated by its expeditionary experimental of 5G facilities in the UAE, first time in the region, together
with coordinating the progress, plan and placement of future ICT podiums of mobile broadband for 5G. In
the world Abu Dhabi became the first capital to be completely connected and has the maximum speed fiber
All these assorted technological capability has facilitated Etisalat Group apprehension noteworthy market
segment as it enlarges across Asia, Africa and Middle East, utmost remarkably in Egypt, Nigeria and Saudi
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Arabia, the presentation of state-of-the-art mobile broadband facilities has transformed market changing
aspects and delivered reasonable internet access through mobile connections for the millions of people in
Performance and facilities of Etisalats Group have been extensively recognized by the business. Etisalat
has won a number major award, comprising the respected annual GSMAs Global Mobile Awards during
2007 succeeding the approach of unraveling the facilities and diverse support facilities from the central
It accomplished financial separation from Etisalat for the period of 2008. The monetary divergence entails
independent economic structures and procedures in each corporate component, therefore permitting
Etisalat Services group to develop, execute and proctor its business policies.
CEO of Etisalat Services Holding, Mr. Ali Al Sharid, supervises the maneuver of eight Business Units that
offer mission precarious telecommunications associated facilities in the UAE, the MENA area and further
than.
Etisalat Academy
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Emirates Data Clearing House (EDCH)
e-Marine
e-Information Services
Tamdeed Projects
UAE.
Thuraya
Mobily - KSA
Mauritel - Mauritania
Sotelma - Mali
Gabon
MOOV - Benin
MOOV - Togo
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MOOV - Niger
Etisalat started an attainment procedure in 2004 afterwards it earned its second cell phone license,
establishing the foremost third generation 3G cell phone license delivered in Saudi Arabia. Continuously
since the achievement, it has understanding countless development, putting its procedure as the express
mounting establishment in the flora and fauna with a proportion rise of 3,475 in contributors from 4 million in
In provisions of UAEs situation, Etisalat has participated a vital role as the foremost business center in the
county for the period of near to 40 years. Similarly, it is the first innovators of worldwide telecommunication
profession, driving the Emirates into highest rank novelties, continuously being among the actual primary to
turn up with modern technology. For instance, in 2010, it empowered UAE to showcase out of first 5
Etisalat has established the next invention of linkages for mobile and landline services, installed appropriate
fiber optic cables in the Emirates that can spread the moon from the ground 8 times. The organization is
also in the development of introducing 4G LTE (Fourth generation long-term evolution) system in Saudi
Arabia and UAE. Etisalat at present owns the speediest land line broadband network in the Middle East
that has promptness fast as 30Mbps. Etisalat has also experimented the speedy mobile broadband
facilities crosswise the globe, reaching impressive promptness of equal to 300Mbps (etisalat.ae).
The organizations technological capability has facilitated it to encapsulate a big share of the business in
the market, spreading through the editing-Editing region. In its neighbors countries, in GCC and after that
In Egypt, it has caught more marketplaces where the market underlying forces have been transformed by
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opening of reasonable Internet connection and broadband facilities which are all-encompassing of mobile
television and visual communication. Etisalat has got appreciation as the greatest experienced
comprehensive supplier a number of times in the previous three successive years along with the best
inclusive operator in the middle east a number of times since 2006. For its very well operation, the
organization has also gained several tributes for providing of the top customer services, superlative CSR
platform and excellent trademark among others. The administration team of the corporation is well
distinguished with Eissa Al Suwaidi, chairman of the organization in the group of such ideal and great
It has articulated two major policies to share out with the procedure of variation adaptation.
The concentration of the organization in the field of telecoms favors upsurge in communiqu
between the workforces and administration. The organizations divergence makes practice of
strategies associations with worldwide suppliers helping them enlarge to worldwide markets.
The administration changed its administrative structure from classified authority to application of
The organization has been implementing new technologies in addition to executing them in the
place of work for determinations of cumulative its level of competence and aptitude. The executives
of the organization look onward to changing strategic bearing with the determination of including
vicissitudes in management methodologies that can authorize them to develop to new kingdoms
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The organization in addition has developed all-inclusive HRM management approach which allows
Etisalat has also joined with a number of non-governmental and governmental groups for the reasons of
accumulative approachability level to healthiness and edification over and done with the use of technology
meanwhile it is dedicated to business social accountability principles. The organization in addition has been
reinforcing individuals with exceptional requirements, serving in constructing its standing. Such as, in 2010,
Etisalat acquired shortlisted such as the front-runner to Global Mobile Awards due its facilities of graphical
center which practices 3G technologies and symbol language to support those reduced with audible range.
Likewise, the organization was presented for the impressive contest in 2012 for needing created/designed
For instance a regional frontrunner in providing of information that is atmosphere responsive and
transmission solutions, the organization has founded a number of unconventional green equipment. All of
such technologies comprise elegant constructing technologies with the newest being substitute power
placement inside their networks areas and practice of Device to Device solutions. The approaches of the
organization guarantee that it follows to the uppermost international values with its countrywide network of
fiber optic probable to lesser the utilization of power by an estimated 70% and carbon emanation by an
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Most of time, Etisalat has founded its execution and invention strategies on four fundamental components.
Transformation management,
Practical leadership,
Workforce/Personnel management
The organization additionally has reformed to deviations in their business processes, plans, assertiveness
organization.
The prosperous growth of the organization is attributable to the aforementioned standards, apparition and
operation. Its task is out spreading peoples scope through expansion of advanced systems that facilitate
development and knowledge in the people for example like a whole and within public. The task is in line
with the organizations vision which is sighted the world grasp people irrespective of whether they are
imperfect by remoteness. Obviously, the organization has circumstances its standards which comprise: of
dynamism, enablement and sincerity. Similarly, it looks onward to considering a globe where the influence
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Chapter Two
Literature Review
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The purpose of this chapter of this research report is to present/introduce the theme. The determination is
to make clear the reader with inspiration, existing aspects of business culture and its character in
function. Besides inspiration, business culture simplifies such decisive aspects of structural life as harmony
among workforces and inclusive well-being. In wide-ranging, business culture can be perceived as the
entire sum of all desirable structural activities that direct at satisfying its determination.
For the determination of this research a choice was made to precedent a cross-national study in the interior
the telecommunication industry, like Etisalat in UAE. The motives that encouraged our excellent were the
early entrance of state-of-the-art motivational performs in the field if information technology and the
presence of a link between modernization in technology and improvement in administration. The high-
Moreover, personal involvements and circumstances let me recognize several cultural dissimilarities among
the employees of the organization and they reinforce my impression that these variances could influence
The critical point in inspiring employees is that deprived of stimulation, workers become incompetent and
expensive. Therefore, managers demand to find appropriate tools that stimulate their assistants and
appropriate the present business culture. These days, the old-fashioned motivational rehearses for
Though, innovative exercises have not been extensively accepted despite the fact their achievement has
been showed by numerous studies. The unwillingness of managers to agree to take innovative procedures
and use in corresponding with old-style motivational rehearses might be for the reason of the following
Leading, unconventional practices and their influence are not very well known to the executives.
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Furthermore, the present corporate philosophy does not backing the use of groundbreaking practices.
Thirdly, the ordinary confrontation to change, which infers that in many occasions people, are frightened of
new equipment and consequently new motivational applies do not originate about.
In the organization, the significance of cultural variances and variety has an influence on the employees in
a cumulative worldwide business domain. Cosmopolitan organizations, for example Dell, IBM and many
others do not inevitably collect the greater part of revenue and incomes from their own country but from
overseas countries because of less cost inducements and by means of a globalization policy. Whereas the
inclusive tactic influences the employees, the formers compactness and movements shake the working
dealings due to alterations obligation by the wandering group. Caused by the adjustment disputes, the
workers in Europe are fewer chances to move in expectation of work and profession opportunities related
to the workers in USA. It reflects that the prospect price of relocation in Europe is more than in USA. In
addition it reflects that business culture underlying forces have fewer impacts associated to state
philosophies in Europe. It is very important to understanding traditional differences and variety at the place
of work that sound effects the business communiqu as it is understandable statistic because utmost
civilizations are factually diverse, and many establishments and persons collect and assemble their
especially with existing changes far-reaching through the world. It is discussed that administrations that
worth assortment will absolutely improve accomplishment and have an imminent in this energetic universal
The diversity in workforce management has come to be an essential matter for both public and private
establishments. Its significance has mostly been fetched about by the easy movement of labor because of
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worldwide movement of people and the struggle for human rights by some specific sectional groups who
think exception from the service division. The diversity of workforce occurred mostly to additional the
obtainability identical chances in the place of work. This identical opportunity viewpoint is intended at
guaranteeing that establishments make the furthermost out of the transformation from a unlike workforce
somewhat than trailing aptitude which might support the business company to be well well-organized and
operative. The increased flexibility and communication of people from different backgrounds as outcome of
enhanced economic and administrative systems and the acknowledgement of human privileges by all
states has put record establishments under stressed to encirclement diversity at the place of work. The
diversity fetches with it the different background that requires be cherishing, sophisticating and escalating
as means of cumulative administrative usefulness in this economical world (Henry, O., & Evans, A. J,
2007).
Such as we move in the twenty first century, a new era of history, an important change is happening in the
flora and fauna economy. The global world is shifting towards a sphere where the trade and ventures are
plummeting, obstacles cross the border, perceiver gap is decrease because of developments in
conveyance and communications technology in brief we can approximately imagine that bit by bit the world
is flattering a global community in the result of globalization. In such mutually dependent worldwide
economy, for example a man from USA may use to drive a car designed in some European country like
Germany; it was assembled in another country south America, its spare parts finished in USA and Japan
that was produced from rubber imported from Malaysia and Korea.
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2.2. Diversity in work-force
To live in such kind of merciless economical world the companies have to employ an operational and
competent labor force that can manage this type of competitive situation. Employing differentiated
workforce is a great quintessence for each organization. At present scenario the companies that
engagement excellence and competitive labor force irrespective of their age, arrogance, language,
masculinity, faith, status can only contend at the market. The department of human resource plays an
imperative role and asset for any business company. Wealth and physical means, for them, cannot
progress competence or subsidize to an augmented rate of reappearance on stock. According to the above
Since long time of schmooze about diversity in the work-place, however there is extensive debate and
misperception around what essentially establishes work-force diversity. Work-force diversity is in general
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observed as recognizing, appreciative, accommodating, esteeming, and rejoicing modifications among the
people with admiration to age, division, culture, gender, corporeal and mental capability, nation, sexual
coordination, unworldly preparation, and public succor status. Diversity brings up to a assortment of people
who fetch a variation of backgrounds, perceptions, values, and assistances as possessions to the
collections and organizations with which they interrelate (Simons & Rowland, 2011).
The impression of systematic management by Frederick Taylor in the beginning of twentieth century and
actual manufacture. Produce the results to the business or restrained in contradiction of the objectives and
purposes. This is considered as one of the greatest research division of the adaptable field. The controlling
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Chapter Three
Development
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3.1 Development
Nowadays our worlds growing globalization needs more communication among people from different
backgrounds. Individuals cannot live and operate in an inward-looking atmosphere; they are today part of a
global economy contending within a international framework. Therefore, commercial and non-profit
organizations require to be converted more differentiated to continue modest. Exploiting and take
The Administrators and managers require recognizing the ways in which the place of work is shifting and
differences among the people with esteem to class, nation, background, gender, incapacities and age.
Figure 3.1
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Business organizations need to hold diversity and explore for methods to become comprehensive
establishments since diversity has the prospective to produce countless work production and economical
compensations. It is believed that diversity is a priceless competitive resource. Dealing diversity is a vital
The demographic variations (women at the work-place, administrative restructuring, and identical opening
legislation) will involve organizations to analyze their management performances and improve new and
inspired methodologies to managing people. Optimistic changes will upsurge work presentation and
consumer facility.
The amount of twofold-earnings families and lonely working mothers has transformed the subtleties of the
work-place. A deviation in the family building means that there are smaller numbers of customary family
characters. Significant variations in the work-place have happened due to rationalizing and subcontracting,
which has significantly exaggerated human resource management. The Globalization and new modern
equipment have transformed work-place performs, and in attendance has been a development toward
extensive working times. Commonly speaking, organizational rearrangement typically results in less people
Variations in central and state equal opening regulations have made discernment in the work-place
prohibited. These commandments specify the privileges and accountabilities of both acquaintances
(workers) and companies in the work-place and grasp both parties responsible.
different industries, particularly the industry of telecommunication moving on the way to hire the workforce
from worldwide market place and locally available labor force. It is contended that it has directed to a
observation that work-force variety turn into unavoidable and important for defensible organizational
modernization. This confidence drives company managers to squeeze and understand the perception of
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work-place assortment, its obstacles, and assistance. Moreover, work-force assortment is progressively
documented and operated as one of the precise and significant, if not the greatest worthy, organizational
possessions in respects to whether the objective of the business company is to be an owner of optimal, to
deliver outstanding customer service, to uphold a reasonable control or to convert to state-of-the-art. Some
business companies that be going to be effective must have a borderless opinion and an original obligation
to confirm that work-force diversity is fragment of its everyday business measures (Childs, 2005).
Partial empirical exploration confirmed that diversity administration can certainly improve administrative
outcomes. This research report attempts to link that hole and contend that the upcoming success of any
business depend on on the capability to cope a diverse frame of capacity that can carry state-of-the-art
ideas, viewpoints and opinions to their exertion. The contest and difficulties faced as a consequence of
integrating work-place diversity underneath one crown can be twisted into a planned organizational
strength if establishments are capable to make the most of on this tender pot of assorted abilities. With the
combination of capacities of different cultural circumstances, manhood, ages, and regimes, the
organization can retort to business prospects more swiftly and artistically, particularly in the global zone that
Moreover, it is recommended that organizations must encirclement diversity in their labor force and effort
towards attaining it by generating beliefs where transformation can flourish, relatively than working merely
for legislatures and integration. More prominently, if the organizational atmosphere does not backing
diversity approximately, organizations hazard trailing talent to contestants. It is found that permissible to
effectively accomplish place of work diversity, the Manager from Human Resource desires to sustain a
cross national compassion capability by shifting his/her management attitude from an ethnocentric
interpretation (our approach is the finest method to organize the stuffs) to a ethnically relative perception is
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let us take the excellent of a Diversity of methods. This change in attitude has to be deep-seated in the
organization elegance of Human Resource department in their elementary management tasks (Chan,
2009).
the workplace, with regard to individual dissimilarities can upsurge production. In the work-place diversity
can decrease lawsuits and escalation marketing prospects, recruitment, ingenuity and professional image.
In the period when suppleness and imagination are keys to effectiveness, diversity is significant for a
business organizations success. Similarly, the magnitudes cost of time and capital must not be
disregarded.
circumstantial to which they link, the age and the awareness. When diverse types of persons in relations of
intelligent, perception, age group come concurrently to work at the similar station then certainly a condition
might come where such these diverse types of persons may not come to an agreement at the similar point.
At this point, of period it is going to disturb the personal relationship among the persons. The scholar has
reserved some features, which are a chunk of assortment among employees they are oldness, masculinity,
caste, understanding, professional requirement and the workers coming from numerous terrestrial states.
On the base of all these statement, the scholar has arranged the following prototypical.
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Figure 3.3
The whole world is becoming very close like a global village, this globalization, denationalization and
substantial we can see the variation at our place of work as well, during the old days where the individuals
of similar age group, matching specialized qualification, alike experience and identical religion derived
together to carry out their tasks in an establishment. But nowadays women are also employed in the
equivalent proportion with men. Consequently the investigator is concentrating over these perilous aspects
Another characteristic that affects the working environment is the medium of language. Individuals may
communicate through diverse languages at work-place for the reason that of different environmental area
from where they come. Because of this people may face some difficulties. The workers coming from
numerous geographic areas with their diverse attitude create inconsistency among the workforces. Gender
recognizing variances in individuals. It includes recognizing the worth of differences, battling discrimination,
and endorsing inclusiveness. Administrators may also be face up to with damages in personnel and work
production in arrears to prejudgment and perception, over and above complaints and lawful actions in
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contradiction of the association. Negative arrogances and performances can be obstacles to organizational
diversity for the reason that they can damage working associations and damage confidence and work
efficiency.
The central idea in stirring workforces is that without inspiration, workforces become unproductive and
expensive. Thus, administrators are required to find appropriate tools that stimulate their assistants and
suitable the existing business culture. At the present time, the old-style of motivational rehearses for
Though, innovative rehearses have not been extensively implemented despite the fact that their
achievement has been demonstrated by numerous studies. The disinclination of managers to consent
state-of-the-art measures and apply in corresponding with old-fashioned motivational rehearses might be
Leading, alternative rehearses and their impressions are not very well understood to the managers.
In addition, the present corporate philosophy does not provision the application of advanced
practices.
Thirdly, the ordinary confrontation to change, which point toward that in many occurrences people,
are frightened of new stuffs and consequently new motivational rehearses do not originate about.
These substances produce the preliminary point of this research and head us to inquire the following
research queries.
organizational operational performance, worker gratification, and volunteer worker throughput, is very
important for the sustainability of the organization (Sungjoo and Rainey, 2010).
The term work-force is stated as the prospect for the organization to turn into more creative, to grasp the
previously untouched markets and as a whole to accomplish and maintain a economical advantage.
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But some experts argued that work-force diversity makes conflict and vagueness in the work-force as
administration, on normal, is not capable in the chastisement of such diversity management. Consequently,
the executives do not identify how to successfully preparation diversity. Staffs still tale choices to disruption
the directions with their performance when it derives to diversity. Another point of view of an expert is said
that, the diversity inside the work-place can arouse an assortment of sentiments as some sight diversity as
Despite the fact, many will approve that the outcomes of diversity sensible organization increase value to
the worker and business, however research assessing diversity as the reason of emerging methods of
3.6.1Research problem
What is the effect of corporate cross cultural management on the productivity of an organization?
For this purpose, Etisalat telecom has been chosen to examine its cross cultural management and its
workplace atmospheres in question and the managers are responsive of inventive practices in the
organization very well and what advantages they have. The subsequent objective is to differentiate if
cultural proportions have emotional impact on managers adoption of used motivational apparatuses.
The objective of this section is to deliberate the optimal of theme, present predeterminations and scientific
methodology that build a part of the report. Moreover, the following segments will arrange for an
understanding to the operated methodology and the procedure of gathering theories for the hypothetical
structure.
The intention why motivation and cross business cultural is chosen as topics to be planned sits in our
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environment. For more distinctive the way of rational those individuals have their practice of making definite
accomplishments and the burden placed on each activity is set up to be captivating issues. Inspiration as
such is a great concept to understand and it differs from person to person. Consequently this study will not
be bright to transform the empathetic of inspiration but it will definitely try to make available some
stimulating diagnostic points with regards to business culture. Such approach explains the other theme of
the report, namely organizational culture. Inspiration itself does not stance such an attractive topic but when
it is positioned into a positive context, business culture for example, its attraction upsurges.
The choice to make a cross-cultural study was further facilitated by the fact that it is considered by having a
proportional nature.
and inspiration stance for. Therefore, both of these themes might be accustomed but their factual
implication is not so obvious. For instance, individuals do not constantly understand their motivational
features and how values have prejudiced them. In case for an individual to recognize what inspires him/her,
individual has to understand the standards set on numerous substances. Association, institute, position,
wealth or family represents models of ideas that are measured important. Though, it demands a procedure
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Chapter Four
Model
(Further Development)
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4.1 Conceptual Structure
The preceding considerations about the numerous features of the theoretical structure are essential in the
description of our conceptual paradigm. Intention of this chapter is to provide a model, which is required in
operation, a collection of superfluous variables that are not connected to the reason of the study may
concern the dependent variable. It is acknowledged that these features/aspects are to be expected to effect
the association of dependent and the independent variables. All such issues comprise but are not
incomplete to stable size, fix Age, and marketing approach surrounded by others. All these superfluous
variables would be featured as the mistake term e of the regression prototypical in a research state.
provide a firm with a strong competitive advantage (Clarke & Iles, 2000). Given the age of globalization and
knowledge economy, business organizations will be successful only to the extent that they are able to
embrace and encourage diversity by ensuring that their workplace is significantly diverse and that their
diverse workforce is respected, appreciated and valued (Okoro & Washington, 2012).The underlying
premise is that heterogeneous groups are more likely to be creative, productive, or effective in attainment
of organizational goals as opposed to homogeneous groups (Milken & Martins, 1996). The demographic
changes occurring in most countries present an urgent challenge for many organizations (Kunze et al,
2013). These changes imply that organizations that had a largely homogeneous workforce with respect to
age have to consider a pressing question and concerns on the consequences of age diversity on the
companys overall performance. For organizations to make informed decisions, regarding the use of scarce
resources to improve performance, they must be able to compare the effects of different potential
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initiatives. Currently, the case of diversity is enjoying high profile in organizational debate partly due to
changes in workforce demographics (Armstrong, Flood, Liu, Guthrie & Mkamwa, 2010).
Since 1996, American corporations are learning how to leverage on cultural diversity for enhanced
competitive advantage. They view workforce diversity as one of the initiatives for increasing organizational
effectiveness. Some experts explained that the diversity of organizational members can be sources of
competitive advantage helping an organization provide customers with better goods and services (Jones et
al, 2011)
Redman & Wilkinson,(2006) also affirmed that effective diversity management contributes to best use of
human resource; flexible workforce to aid re structuring; workforce representative of the local community;
improved corporate image with potential employees and customers; attracting ethical investors; managers
can integrate equality into corporate objectives and new business ideas from a diverse workforce. (Nishii,
Gotte & Raver, 2007) found that the demographic diversity of senior management teams is positively
associated with demographic diversity of work forces at large and those forms that adopted diversity
initiatives outperformed those that did not. Diversity recognizes the fact that the human race is
characterized by differences in gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, lifestyle, and physical abilities. (Simons
& Rowland, 2011) argue that diversity and diverse interpretation of viewpoints into organizations are
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Independent Variables Moderating Variables Dependent Variables
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Figure 4.1b (Conceptual Model)
Not like other types of equivalence for instance nation and gender, discernment of age as a strategy issue
has only started to develop for last twenty years. Some experts have claimed that the business instance for
this kind of diversity may too be operated to palisade claim in contradiction of employing older workers, at
the rate of greater employment expenses. Diversity, intellectuals have contended that age-assorted work-
forces show a host of diverse knowledge, standards, and favorites. Their perceptions, including their
psychological prototypes are different. Therefore as a group, they have a greater pond of information and a
greater problem resolving toolbox foremost to better-quality firm performance. The experts have perceived
that fresher executives are more expected to have joined school in an additional diverse atmosphere, or
functioned with marginal groups at some opinion during their professions. Medicinal, psychosomatic and
financial research has also revealed that workers of diverse age groups vary in skills, approaches and
aptitudes and that these opposing physiognomies have diverse effects on production.
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New employees are well-thought-out to be stretchers and can represent an approach of more variation
willingness as contrasting to elder employees. The elder workers can also be reflected as pools of
knowledge booming the recognized memory of a business thus permitting effective transmission of
skillfulness. Furthermore, progression planning turns out to be more operative in age diverse
establishments. Modernization has converted one of the important stratagems of the company for
achievement reasonable advantage, growing market segment, and cumulative general corporate operation
Different age workforces show a host of diverse knowledge, standards, perceptions, elucidations, and
favorites that are requisites for revolution. Furthermore, young executives are more probable to have
countless learning competencies, are more newly sophisticated, and therefore are more to be expected to
be additional hazard-attractive, supple, and inventive. A collection of fresh and old associates of workers
with diverse knowledge pools can consequently intensification revolution as related to having consistent
Nowadays the number of both genders, male and female is increased in all kind of business organization at
the work-place. This issue has caught the attention of both scholars and experts and a specific question
that occurred is whether this gender configuration in the organizations employees will have emotional
impact on an individual, cluster or administrative level functions and production (Gupta, 2013).
Due to express conservational changes, many kingdoms are shifting to adapt the growing diverse labor
force in their business corporation. A number of researchers examining workers diversity have observed
that gender diversity in the meeting room can confidently shake secure performance though; some other
reports have described conflicting findings of a harmful affiliation between females in boards and corporate
performance. It is described no straight relationship between male and female diversity and business
performance. A number of researchers have contended that great levels of male and female diversity are a
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cause of economic advantage. Built on collected works, we debate that a well-balanced gender
configuration of workers may help generate cooperation leading to optimistic association consequences.
The gender diversity is related with possessions that can deliver a stable with a continual competitive
benefit. These possessions contain market understanding, imagination, revolution and better-quality
Males and Females differentiations may deliver insights into the diverse needs of man and woman
customers. The experts have more argued that male and female may also have dissimilar reasoning
abilities. A grouping of different perceptive capabilities in a gender diverse squad may improve general
It has been observed that work experience is a good tool to measure the standard/quality of work than age.
A classification of works into five work-related groupings exposed a diminishing consequence for
professional type. Discoveries also displayed that age and practice reveal non-linear interactions with
operation. Skilled workers usually are observed as dependable, faithful, and enthusiastic. They are too
observed as having a robust work moral belief, solid presentation record, in line for to having years of
working associated understanding. Work involvement can also have a constructive influence on ones value
structure, problem solving competences, emotional aptitude, leading to better-quality individual efficiency
Some studies have revealed that the span of work involvement is positively connected to work
presentation. Such understanding involves the improvement of well-practiced work abilities. Experts have
also contended that qualified workers can create faster work connected conclusions, sort out the problems
swiftly, which advance to a more pleased customers and amplified market share.
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The experts have further contended that as employees carry on serving in their establishments, they are
probably to gain more capability owing to their acquaintance concerning to different work atmosphere. They
can consequently control work experiments with more self-assurance and make quicker decisions involving
to customer grievances.
Variances in cultural physiognomies can forecast team grooves which can additional be inferred as an
improvement of having ethnologically different opinions for a team, consequential in increased delinquent
unraveling and team presentation. Numerous private companies have also demonstrated this kind of
assortment, even though a decent number, particularly the multi-nationals and folks that have implemented
Whereas there have been an important figure of experiments that have discovered the consequence of
diversity at single and team level, there is slight theoretical direction and a insufficiency of experimental
findings regarding the hypothetically beneficial influence of corporate-level social diversity on structural
consequences.
Investigators have perceived that diversity on social framework can effect organizational collaborations,
innovative-ness, and usefulness in implementation of scientific programs. Social diversity can more
influence relational changing aspects within an association. Interpersonal blockades entrenched in cultural
alterations may obstruct the movement of facts on a company wide basis. Cultural standards and
rehearses may further inspiration the fashion in which anthropological resource programs are applied
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4.7 Employee appointment
Several researchers have recommended that employee appointment levels must be well-thought-out in
imperative to completely recognize the multifaceted workforce diversity presentation relationship. The
substantially, rationally and emotionally throughout the role presentation. A psychological existence model
suggests that inter-group associations have emotional impact the framework at work, thus persuading
personal rendezvous of workforces. Several structural variables like company support have been measured
A diverse environment is further likely to stimulate workgroup consistency and organizational obligation or
appointment. They found that sectional and mainstream groups will practice greater supplement with their
administrations if a countless degree of employees diversity be present. Definitely, more worker affection
to an organization is unambiguous in organizations that promote multiculturalism. The experts have more
argued that assortment can affect the companys operation through numerous types of arbitrating variables.
It has been reviewed that simple dynamics of a collaborating effect of multidimensional features of labor
force diversity on company productivity. The dynamic forces are a expression of in what way each diversity
component could stimulus and make an involvement to organizations business performance. The
the organization, organization strategy, geographical position, global location, economy, legitimate and
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Figure 4.2 (Cross cultural Communication Model)
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4.9 Closing Comments
Several diversity academics have contended that, diversity enables organizational presentation when it is
accomplished in productive and incorporative ways. In this era of science and technology, fresh employees
can be additional creative, absorb faster and can compel improvement in an organization as matched with
adult employees controlling to extraordinary organization presentation more thus in the capacity of
technological inventions. Because of their unlike means of socialization and experience, they can
effortlessly adopt change that energies innovation and business performance. The age of workers may also
affect their standard of promise and appointment with the organization. Some employees impending their
departure age may instinctively commence to extricate with the officialdoms they work for as they start to
arrange for their departure. They might continuously inattentive themselves from working place or reach
late at their work-place. Longstanding employees may also devote more time visit to doctors because of
age associated sicknesses as contrasting to younger personals. This in spirit could disturb their separable
offerings on their work presentation and consequently may disturb the general productivity of the
organization. Furthermore, in our view is that diverse genders of employees are awarded with diverse
competences that can work collectively to stimulate optimistic organizational consequences. Diverse
gender in the working group can also be a cause of pleasant-sounding relations and promising arrogances
within a business organization. It can further work to stimulate influence of different vantage point and
Gender variances in a business company have in the previous been observed only on their expression
importance of a worker being whichever a male or a female without much contemplation of their strong
point, faintness or other characteristic competences. We correspondingly view skilled workers as being
more conscious for the corporation and well proficient with the functioning atmosphere therefore being
capable to recognize and accomplish business jeopardy more efficiently. A grouping of employees strained
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from diverse philosophies could also carry to organization assorted experiences, approaches, perceptions,
attitudes to work and diverse levels of obligation to work, thus manipulating the overall presentation of their
corporation. Where there are professed intensity of perception on the base of values, team presentation
may be unpleasantly exaggerated. It may supplementary impact their level of appointment with the
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Chapter Five
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5.1 Research Method
The foremost purpose of this research study is to examine the effect of work-force assortment/diversity on
productivity in Telecom. The directed organization is the Etisalat Telecommunication industry in UAE. The
required population is the employees, who have been working in Etisalat at all levels of administration and
lower level as well. In this research, sampling border is immaterial, thus non likelihood approach is used in
choosing the sample. We gained a experiment size of 30 to epitomize the directed population. The
the accountability to take and answer the queries. The questionnaires were circulated straight to the
workers and it required just 10 to 15 minutes for every person to accomplish it. The scheme of the
questionnaire was divided into different sections, such as Units A, B, and C correspondingly. Unit A
gathered the employees demographic information which comprises of items for example gender, age,
education background job status in the organization. Second unit B comprised of three self-governing
variables which are to control the special effects of workforce diversity in the direction of production. Each
variable contained 5 to 9 questions to be replied by the employees. Unit C contained of 10 queries that
Expressive indicators are used to define the elementary characteristics of the data in a research. They
make available simple synopses about the model and the procedures. Descriptive indicators are the
subject of quantitatively labelling the foremost structures of a pool of data or the quantifiable explanation
itself. Expressive statistics are illustrious from inferential figures (inductive figures), in that expressive
statistics goal to encapsulate a model, relatively than practice the data to study about the inhabitants that
the illustration of data is supposed to exemplify. This usually indicates that expressive statistics, contrasting
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Some procedures that are frequently used to explain a data set are procedures of significant tendency and
actions of inconsistency or scattering. Procedures of central propensity contain mean, median and mode,
whereas procedures of variability contain the standard deviation / variance, the lowest and extreme
5.3 Dataset
Table 1 (Frequency)
Table 3 (Model)
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Table 4 (Model Summary)
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Chapter Six
Conclusion
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6.0 Conclusion
Subsequently critically investigative the literature and numerous research articles from several authors
associated with work-force diversity and its effect on productivity of a telecom business in UAE, it has been
observed that: An organizations most important objective is to generate revenue and to improve its
productivity, no disbelief that practically all the authors are proverb that engaging diversified work-force is
the very quintessence in present scenario but to accomplish such a expanded work-force is a great contest
for the management. Appointment of diversified work-force will absolutely leads to enhanced productivity,
but may demonstrate to catastrophe if not be able to manage it properly for the reason that not only the
administration but workers are also sentiment some issues for example language problem (that is tolerable
and is not owing to opinions of the employees), arrogance clashes, and change in discernments, which is
straight connected to human conduct which eventually affects the production of the organization.
After bearing in mind all the outcomes in the research it develops a obligation for the investigators to
recommend, the ways to grip the inadequacies set up throughout the survey. It is actually a big problem of
apprehension for all HR specialists as one hand we express that we must take in new tendencies in HR
policies However, this issue is successfully managed and control in Telecom industry (Etisalat) by
Heartening the usage of common language in the organization for all employees
Additional one must accept the reality; it is not the subject of beliefs in reality it is the issue of excellence.
Consequently, for cultivating productivity, excellence has to be sustained and not dropped out.
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Appendix A
Questionnaire
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Appendix A1 (Glossary)
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