Abstract
The education sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is abounding with forceful challenges. The competition between the private educational institutions is not within the same country any more, but opens to global competition including countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). This study aims to clarify the strategic role of human resource (HR) managers in the educational institutions in the UAE. Human resource management can play a strategic partner role in all organizations as well as in the educational institutions. Field data collection was accomplished by interview questionnaire survey and analyzed using SPPS. The findings revealed that HR’s role in the UAE educational institutions is not as a strategic partner. Most of the HR activities in these institutions have mainly focused on the administrative aspects of human resource management. The findings offer rare insight into clarifying the strategic role of the HR managers in the educational institutions in UAE.
Highlights
The educational institutions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are replete with dynamic challenges
This study aims to clarify the strategic role of human resource (HR) managers in the educational institutions in the UAE
To determine the demographic characteristics of HR professionals in the UAE private educational institutions in which they work, we asked about their gender, age, level of education, years of experience, and job title along with the primary role in the institution
Summary
The educational institutions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are replete with dynamic challenges. In 1999, the Higher Ministry of Education and Scientific Research in the UAE established the Commission of Academic Accreditation (CAA) for the purpose of establishing international standards for private institutions and for accreditation needs. Education in this part of the world and in UAE confront with serious challenges like (poor educational facilities, poor provisional training, low skill levels, serious skills mismatch, and deficient transfer of knowledge, Muysken, Nour, 2006). The majority countries in the Gulf Region invested heavily in developing their educational systems to cope with the international standards, but this study revealed that (there is general acknowledgment that the quality of the primary and secondary education systems in these countries is not up to international standards)
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