Ashraf Elsafty

Ashraf Elsafty
Eslsca University Egypt/Paris · Post-graduate Studies

Doctor of Business Administration
Working on the development of Research Methods, enhancing possible new conceptualization and frameworks.

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Introduction
Ashraf Elsafty currently works at the Postgraduate Studies, Eslsca and MsM. Ashraf does research in Applied Philosophy, Business Administration and Quantitative Social Research. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Research Methods, focusing on conceptualization and design of rigorous mixed research methods, generating and validating new models for multidisciplinary topics. Seeking truth and equity, by acquiring knowledge and wisdom; through learning, teaching, and developing others all the time.
Additional affiliations
August 2011 - present
Eslsca University Egypt
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
January 2009 - February 2022
Maastricht School of Management
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Description
  • Egypt outreach
Education
January 2007 - January 2011
Maasthricht School of Management
Field of study
  • Strategic Management

Publications

Publications (41)
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Over the past few decades, teacher professional development has increasingly focused on developing teachers' professional skills in the use of TBL (team-based learning) in their classrooms, gaining new insights and perspectives, and enhancing their ability to meet the diverse needs of their students. Consequently, many studies have investigated the...
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Mental disorders are considered as one of the biggest causes of disabilities that are common in several countries. Egypt lacks societal awareness of mental illness and mental health maintenance that could be attributed to the cultural and religious influence on the society which certainly affects the accessibility to mental care. Whether due to fin...
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The literature widely covered engagement from different perspectives and how it is affected by different job resources and job demands. This study tackles the effect of job resources including the hybrid-working model, manager coaching, and other resources on engagement. Even though job resources were extensively examined in the literature; this pa...
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Employee turnover has become a common phenomenon in all organizations. It will cost a lot of money and time because organizations need to hire new employees and train them to fill field open positions. There are many different reasons why they choose to leave the organization. So, organizations need to find out the most important reasons to treat a...
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In the era of fast technological advancements and the inclusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education, it is more important than ever for educators to have a pedagogy that embeds this technology. A humanistic approach to education is demanded. The focus on the individual student and their emotional and spiritual needs is essential if an acti...
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Digital transformation in Egypt became government trend supporting by political leader starting in services places like civil registry, real estate center, traffic department and many ministries do their best to apply digital transformation. In the public sector, digital transformation refers to the digitization of government activities, such as de...
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The Egyptian Government published several digital services through their websites; however, the number of interactive users is very limited compared to the country's population and the expected users. This research is intended to figure out the user experience design challenges impact on the end-user to improve the efficiency of the GOV"s website,...
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Decision making is a significant and rational process in any business organization that deploys so many resources to work on selecting the optimal alternative and build a heuristic framework. In the last decade, Tire sector in Egypt witnessed many changes due to market dynamics and economic challenges, that require being adaptive in the decision-ma...
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This research aims to measure the impact of the Ukraine-Russia conflicts on the international trade and thus on the prices’ behavior in Egypt. The purpose of this paper is to investigate and observe prices’ behavior during the ongoing crisis. The literature review defined the real determinant of prices and what are the factors affecting prices in t...
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A model of 9 Employee Retention factors (6 dependent variables and 3 demographics as moderators) is developed in the context of Family business Medium Egyptian Company. A qualitative method is used via structured interviews with 4 managers working in the company and reveals that only 5 dependent and one moderator are impacting Employee Retention wh...
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This Paper discusses the amount of popularity Nogoum FM in Egypt as it always claimed to be No 1 ranked Radio station in Egypt by returning to listener's numbers. To make a good analysis to the future and plans on Nogoum FM the paper investigated the Popularity especially between the young ages (Teenagers) which may have different interests and opi...
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Precision Agriculture Technologies (PATs) are advocated as inevitable agricultural practices to achieve the highest economic value and mitigate the environmental impact of the agriculture.Water scarcity and rapid population growth in Egypt endanger the economic nourishment. Since agriculture consume more than 80% of total water consumption in Egypt...
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The purpose of this paper is to outline the structure of the Egypt Government Excellence Award, as well as to investigate the role of adopting an excellence framework in developing public sector work nature and improving public services, as well as to attempt to identify and propose solutions to the practical problems and challenges posed by excell...
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Over the past few decades, there has been a significant change, as smartphones and digital devices paved the way for developing new e-business models to articulate and cultivate further magnitudes such as “shared economy”. Video on demand has become one of the most vital shared-economy play-actors. This study aims to provide valuable information to...
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Human resource is an important asset in any organization. Therefore, organizations need not only attract experienced and talented employees to the organization, but they also need to keep them for a long time. This paper reviews the findings and the results of researchers to find and explore the relationship between employee training and employee r...
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The paper outlines the structure of the Egyptian Government Excellence Award and attempts to examine the role of introducing an excellence framework in the development of work in the public sector to improve public services, and identify and propose solutions for practical problems and challenges of the Excellence Award. The paper aims to validate...
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The purpose of this paper is to outline the structure of the Egyptian Government Excellence Award, examine the role of introducing an excellence framework in the development of work in the public sector and the improvement of public services, and identify and propose solutions for practical problems and challenges of the Excellence Award. The purpo...
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This research study explores human resource management decisions, management roles, and how they can have a significant and unique impact on the performance of the Mwasalat Misr organization. The survey adopted a qualitative survey design using a sequential narrative approach using unstructured interviews and a stakeholder analysis approach using o...
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The new era of Digital transformation will Destroy many tasks and will create new owns, only certain tasks will depend on human skills which was defined by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, 2013 in which they called it, the “Engineering-Bottlenecks. Other tasks also defined by Katharina Dengler, Britta Matthes and Wiebke Paulus, 2014 in wh...
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The new era of Digital transformation will Destroy many tasks and will create new owns, only certain tasks will depend on human skills which was defined by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, 2013 in which they called it, the “Engineering-Bottlenecks. Other tasks also defined by Katharina Dengler, Britta Matthes and Wiebke Paulus, 2014 in wh...
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Job stress is a universal element that is not only encountered in every individual but also in every organization regardless of its size. Especially, bankers who are under a good deal of stress because of the nature of their work. Stress could result in a decrease in employees’ performance, productivity, quality of labor, and high turnover rate, in...
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HRM has a significant role in motivating the employees and ensuring that every employee is satisfied with the HR practices. Healthcare providers have been facing stress and depression especially in Egypt, due to COVID-19. In this country, the healthcare providers are looking for alternatives to achieve satisfaction as COVID-19 has affected their jo...
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Corona Virus Disease COVID-19 has significantly impacted the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector. Production Efficiency in pharmaceutical facilities is questionable to withstand the drastic conditions under which the drug manufacturing supply chains are. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a primary indicator of efficiency. The aim of this rev...
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HRM has a significant role in motivating the employees and ensuring that every employee is satisfied with the HR practices. Healthcare providers have been facing stress and depression especially in Egypt, due to COVID-19. In this country, the healthcare providers are looking for alternatives to achieve satisfaction as COVID-19 has affected their jo...
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During 2020, in the time of the COVID-19 during and after lockdown. Governments are imposing lockdown and shutdown for all activities/services inside the country to reduce the spread of the previously mentioned pandemic including international flights. Major factories and manufacturers had stopped for months during the pandemic which led to having...
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A fear from Technological Advances mainly automation and artificial intelligence (AI) has been raised since the beginning of the 21st century, that machines will eliminate human beings performing certain tasks. Several models were developed to measure the effect of the Automation & AI on the employment and was applied on several countries. The firs...
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This paper attempts to explore the impact of corporate social responsibility activities on organizational performance through focusing on Turkish Islamic banks as a dynamic organization and growing at high rate over past two decades. The paper focused also on Turkish Islamic banks stakeholders' area which reflect the bank performance and CSR activi...
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Teachers’ Professional Development ‘TPD’ has always been an area of growing interest in educational research. Several researchers have thoroughly explored the TPD domain aiming to develop and train teachers on how to understand, experience, practice and have a sustainable impact on learners. FIRST (Bahgat et al. 2018) is a new learner experience fr...
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Standalone electronic personal health record can be a useful tool that enables individuals to store, arrange and share their health information easily and they can build a history of their health timeline which is crucial for raising healthcare quality and better self-management, the adoption rate of these applications has been identified in severa...
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The literature has widely covered the factors that determine the success of entrepreneurial ventures from financial and organizational perspectives. This study intends to tackle how the Financial Capital, the Human Capital, the Social Capital, and the Psychological Capital of the Entrepreneur affect Entrepreneurial Success. Despite that the Financi...
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This is part of a series of three papers in a research project examining engineering education in Egypt. After concerns from several stakeholders about the graduates’ knowledge and skills, a fresh look at the phenomenon is attempted. In this manuscript the views of stakeholders, using narrative approach and analysis was carried out. The methodology...
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The introduction of the report has mentioned the aim of this research. As per the introductory part, the aim of this research paper is to examine the role of Human Resources Management (HRM) towards the employees as far as curbing the adverse impact of Covid-19 is concerned. The Literature Review has mentioned the theories of motivation that impact...
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Co-working spaces are a new concept in Upper Egypt; Step co-working space is the first co-working space in Assiut governorate. Through co-working spaces services and facilities, this paper developed a new operationalization of the entrepreneurs’ growth. This research design resulting conceptual framework proposes that certain combinations of cost-s...
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This work examines engineering education in Egypt provided by state (government funded) universities. There have been concerns from all stakeholders about the graduates’ knowledge and skills. The chronic problems with higher education in Egypt in general have been previously reported in the Literature, but this paper provides insights form engineer...
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Egyptian schools of engineering (government faculties, private faculties and private higher engineering institutes) award degrees to 35000 graduates annually. There have been concerns from the Egyptian Engineers Syndicate, experienced engineers, local & international employers, parents and other society stakeholders about the knowledge and skills g...
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Teachers' Professional Development has always been an area of growing interest and constant research. Several educational researchers and authors have thoroughly explored the Teachers' professional development domain with the efforts to develop and train teachers on how to understand, experience, practice and have a sustainable impact on learners....
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Opinions of stakeholders on engineering education in Egypt
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Practices to adopt from international engineering education providers
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Business analysis perspective of engineering education in Egypt
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Over the past decades, Learning & Development has become an area of growing interest and constant research. As a result, there is an abundance of studies and models that target the development of educators. However, the professional development of educators should be built on a comprehensive framework of research-based instructional strategies that...
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Elsafty, A., Bahgat, M., & Sharawy, A. (2017) Facilitating Active Deep Learner experience, Using FIRST Framework Transforming Role of Teacher in the Classroom, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Islamic Education (ICIE 2017). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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