Abubakr Suliman

• British University in Dubai

Big data governance, along with big data analytic capabilities (BDACs) and organisational agility, is expected to increase the organisation’s innovation performance. Drawing on the resource-based view, the dynamic capabilities view, and the literature on big data governance and BDACs, this study examines the relationship between big data governance...

This chapter aims to provide a better understanding of talent management-employee engagement links and investigates the impact of talent management practices on employee engagement in different work organizations, especially in the oil and gas sector. To achieve the objectives of this research, a literature review was conducted to provide a better...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the opportunities and barriers to the implementation of VBHC in SMEs in Qatar. A semi-structured survey was developed to investigate the perspectives of healthcare providers, from SMEs of public and private sectors, on the opportunities and barriers to the adoption of VBHC in Qatar. The respondents include g...

This chapter aims to examines the situation, facts, and challenges of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate social performance (CSP) in the State of Qatar. Some theories related to both constructs are presented and discussed. In addition, the chapter analyzes the role of different formal and informal CSR organizations' initiatives in...

This paper aims to provide insight into talent management and employee recognition variables, in an effort to understand if these management practices are, in a way, implemented in the Research Institutions in Qatar. It also aims to examine the link of these two constructs to employee performance and to suggest a pathway to improve the current prac...

This chapter aims to examines the situation, facts, and challenges of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate social performance (CSP) in the State of Qatar. Some theories related to both constructs are presented and discussed. In addition, the chapter analyzes the role of different formal and informal CSR organizations' initiatives in...

Purpose Various research studies have been carried out to study Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs’) transformational leadership in driving organizational performance and success. Evidence shows that few studies were carried out on CEO transformational leadership and top management team (TMT) performance in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Thus...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper to aim at exploring the links between employees’ perceptions of distributive, procedural and interactional justice on one hand and innovation climate and readiness to innovate on the other hand. The role of innovation climate in predicting readiness to innovate is also examined. Further, the study attempts to tes...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential relationships between perceived work climate and work performance in security organizations. Furthermore, the relationship of various factors related to work climate and work performance are studied and investigated. Design/methodology/approach The data was collected from a public secur...

Purpose - This research aims at investigating, for the first time in the Arab world, the influence of leadership behaviors on organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) in the Islamic banking sector. Also, it explores the role of OCB in affecting work outcomes. Design/methodology/approach - The study consists of two core concepts: leadership behavi...

Managers need to effectively balance the human and technical aspects of work for the well-being and development of both employees and organizations. Leaders need to constantly remember that they are working with and for people who may have different sets of values, attitudes, and feelings. To establish such a balance superiors need to lead by examp...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential links between organizational justice, organizational commitment (employees’ loyalty) and job performance in a developing country. It also focuses on the experiences and perceptions of fairness/justice in the workplace, and how such perceptions predict organizational commitment and job pe...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature, strength and significance of the links between organizational climate and employee turnover. Design/methodology/approach Using a self‐administered questionnaire, 70 employees from an Islamic bank were surveyed in order to examine the five main hypotheses of the study. Findings The study...

This paper aims to explore the links between two components of commitment – affective and continuance – and employees' intention to stay/quit in the oil industry. A self-administered questionnaire was used in order to collect study data from 600 employees representing three levels of management. Eight hypotheses were developed such as there is no s...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of personality traits in affecting employees' work performance. Design/methodology/approach Using a self‐administered questionnaire, 582 employees from a duty‐free organization are surveyed in order to examine the hypotheses of the study. Findings Some personality traits are found to be sig...

This paper examines demographic variables, work motivation, job satisfaction and work performance in a government healthcare sector in the Middle East. A self administered questionnaire was developed to randomly survey 300 employees in order to examine the significance, strength and nature of the relationship between the above mentioned variables....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature, strength and significance of the links between organisational justice, job satisfaction and work performance. Design/methodology/approach Using a self‐administered questionnaire 1,500 employees from 29 organisations were surveyed in order to examine the five main hypotheses of the study....

Purpose This paper aims at exploring, for the first time in the Arab World, the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in affecting work outcomes. Design/methodology/approach A self‐administered questionnaire was used to survey 500 employees from 19 organizations in the United Arab Emirates. The findings are discussed in the paper along with some rec...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the role of work climate in influencing employees’ perceptions of intra‐individual conflict in a Middle Eastern context. Design/methodology/approach A self‐administered questionnaire in which 600 employees were surveyed. The co‐opted participants were selected from 17 companies and represented top‐, middle‐ and b...

This paper aims at exploring the relationship between self-rated performance and immediate-supervisor rated performance in the United Arab Emirates. A sample of 1,285 participants- employees and managers- were surveyed using self-administered questionnaire. The results revealed a clear gap between employees’ perceptions of their performance and the...

This paper aims at exploring the mediating role of organizational commitment that continues to be one of the most controversial issues in HRM. Using a self-administered questionnaire, 1,000 employees from 20 industrial companies were randomly selected and surveyed in order to examine this mediating role. The results revealed that organizational com...

This paper aims at understanding the role of work climate in influencing employees’ innovation. The study consists of two core concepts: work climate and readiness to innovate. By surveying a sample of 1000 employees from 20 industrial companies in Jordan, it investigates the impact of work climate on employees’ readiness to innovate. The results r...

This paper explores the multifaceted nature of commitment in three industrial firms in Jordan. Furthermore, the study investigates the nature of organizational commitment using employees’ job performance and five demographic variables. The results confirm that organizational commitment is a three-dimensional concept. The findings also uncover posit...

Examines the validity and reliability of affective, continuance and normative commitment in the Jordanian context. Using a self-administered questionnaire, 1,000 employees were surveyed. The study questionnaire was piloted in three industrial firms before being used in the main study. The results from the pilot and main studies reveal that of the t...