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Job Localization Policy in Saudi Arabia: Determining its Effect on Employment and Economy

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  • Saad Mohammed Othman

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Saudi Arabia as part of the largest peninsula in the world is confronting with the incongruity of expanding adolescent unemployed nationals and its egotistical dependence on global business and employment for private organizations. In this topic, Saudi legislature has made assorted strategies to battle unemployment of nationals through job localization policy commonly known as ¡°Saudization¡±. The goals of the discernible administrative arrangement are to lessen the aplenty of global workers through distinguishable standard targets and force confinements on the enlistment procedure of global workers. Abundant research, investigations and reports have uncovered that the precedent-setting stage might realize a spate of instigations for private organizations in the job from claiming Saudi nationals. In any case, the placidity owning of private organizations is take unreservedly to job applications who are global workers prepared to embrace physically difficult works to meet the expectations of organizations with lower compensation. This paper investigates the presumptions behind this acceptance, in an application to be aware better the burly ramifications of job localization policy to global workers and fundamentally evaluate the most qualified fresh saudization proposal pegged as ¡°nitaqat¡± in the implementation procedure of the national manpower in Saudi Arabia.

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  • Saad Mohammed Othman, 2017. "Job Localization Policy in Saudi Arabia: Determining its Effect on Employment and Economy," Business and Management Horizons, Macrothink Institute, vol. 5(1), pages 12-29, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:mth:bmh888:v:5:y:2017:i:1:p:12-29
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    1. Abdullah Alanezi, 2012. "Workforce Localization Policies in Saudi Arabia: The Determinants of Successful Implementation in Multi-National Enterprises," Knowledge and Learning: Global Empowerment; Proceedings of the Management, Knowledge and Learning International Conference 2012,, International School for Social and Business Studies, Celje, Slovenia.
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    1. Mohamed Ahmed Ali & Ghadah Alarifi & Enas Fares Yehia, 2022. "Towards Sustainable Careers for Saudi Employees in Tourism and Hospitality Sector: The Impact of Career Competencies on Turnover Intention," Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Richtmann Publishing Ltd, vol. 11, May.

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