Managing the Emirati's 'Pharaonic' Project

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The Oil Empires are suffering the consequences of the current big changes. In a new ecological, sustainable, logical and dynamic world; countries such as the United Arab Emirates are facing new challenges and have understood the necessity to develop new activities to ensure their future.

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[...] This can be very difficult to manage because not all the employees are used to work with foreign people. Languages, habits, effectiveness, rapidity can represent main challenges to manage. That's why, executive teams must proceed to a strategic selection and organization in order to avoid these cultural chocks and create a real coalition. Several problems can appear. For instance hiring a Westerner woman and making her working with local team can create confusion. To avoid such difficulties it can be essential to hiring experienced manager who are used to work in such situations. [...]

[...] However, the notion of human capital process must be added: wages are not enough motivating, the goal is to guarantee, to all the employees coming from different countries, a self assessment in order to increase skills and competencies. (Creating a corporate culture Thanks to an effective Human Resources department a real cohesion can be develop. First of all, we can't waste our time; the recruitment process must be efficient: training period can be proposed according to the position within the company, wages must correspond to the expectations (not only on a local basis) and the company must be a source of self assessment where each of the employees can develop its skills and competences. [...]

[...] - Define a clear organization system: who the members are? Who is in charge to do what? They have to create a kind of hierarchy in order to place someone at each stage of the project who will control the teams and who will define clear goals and develop the culture of the deadlines. This will motivate employees and consequently the system will become more efficient. - Propose a clear agenda which will help to develop the process and project, develop guidelines and define the policy - Prepare a clear financial project: how to invest, on whom, in order to do not waste money and to obtain a good return on investment - Once that the management will have identify how the organization system has to be divided, it will be able to understand and define its human external and internal needs. [...]

[...] Managing the Emirati's “Pharaonic” Project Table of Contents Introduction 3 I. The Strategy and its key priorities The content of the strategy The key priorities 7 II. Managing and sharing the strategy Vertical Communication Horizontal Communication External Communication 11 III. Employees, in charge of customers' experience The Human Resources strategy The customer experience 14 Conclusion 17 References 18 Introduction The Oil Empires are suffering the consequences of the current big changes. In a new ecological, sustainable logic and dynamic; countries such as United Arab Emirates are facing new challenges and have understood the necessity to develop new activities to ensure their future. [...]

[...] The key priorities Before being able to settle priorities, we must define clearly what the deadlines are. The main executives have to be clear on that in order to be able to communicate the information to the team to get speed of delivery: when does the park have to open? Do we need to open all at the same time? Once that the managers will have answer to these questions, the collaboration can really start: the goals are shared and they can communicate on them. [...]