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The Role of Lexical Cohesion in Improving Twelfth Graders’ Essay Writing Quality
(2023) A. Khalil, Abdelhamid; A. S. Abu-Ayyash, Emad; M. I. Salhieh, Sa’Ed
The current study was conducted to examine the role of lexical cohesion in
improving the quality of twelfth graders’ essay writing. The study specifically aimed
at examining the correlation between lexical cohesive devices (LCD) and the quality
of written texts as well as investigating the barriers of employing these devices for
twelfth graders. The context was a private American curriculum school in the UAE.
The present paper adopted the quantitative correlational and the quantitative survey
research approaches. Data were collected using document analysis of 30 twelfth
graders’ essays and an online survey attempted by 113 English teachers. Data were
analysed using correlational statistics, multiple linear regression, and exploratory
factor analysis. The results indicated that there was a significantly positive, moderate
association between cohesive ties and students’ essay scores. The results also demon strated that there was a significantly linear relation between hyponyms and synonyms
and students’ writing scores although hyponyms had more effect on the writing score
than synonyms. The findings of exploratory factor analysis identified three factors as
major barriers encountered by learners while using lexical cohesion in their written
texts including (1) lack of resources and instructions, (2) impact of L1 interference
and (3) limited lexical awareness.
Success Factors in Adopting AI in HRM: Perspective From the Private Sector in UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2024-10) BETTAYEB, ABDERRAHMANE; Dr Abdelmounaim Lahrech
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a transformative force in technological advancement, impacting the success of diverse business sectors. However, research on the specific success factors in AI adoption, especially in human resource management (HRM), remains limited. Previous studies have predominantly focused on AI techniques and applications within IT and industrial sectors rather than the HR context and primarily address applications like recruitment rather than exploring broader HR functions. This study aims to address these gaps by identifying key success factors for AI integration in HR across various applications, with a specific focus on the private sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an area largely unexplored in existing literature. This research uses the Technology, Organisation, and Environment (TOE) framework combined with the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory to investigate how these success factors influence AI adoption in HRM. Adopting a quantitative methodology, surveys were administered across UAE private firms to examine variables including factors under the Innovation feature of AI such as compatibility, relative advantage, complexity, trialability, and observability. Internal factors, such as top management support, organizational readiness and technical capability, and managerial capabilities along with external factors like government regulations and pressure, competitive pressure, Market status, and vendor partnerships, were also considered. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS and AMOS, employing tests such as Common Method Bias (CMB), Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (EFA and CFA), and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). This study provides insights into effective resource allocation for HR leaders considering AI adoption, offering implications for both theory and practice. The findings address key research questions, outline practical recommendations, and suggest avenues for future research to bridge existing literature gaps. Ultimately, this research will offer HR leaders in UAE private firms a framework to better understand and overcome AI adoption challenges, enabling informed decision-making and enhancing the strategic use of AI across HR functions and practices.
Keywords: AI adoption, human resource management, Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DOI), Technology Organization and Environment Theory (TOE), Success factors, UAE private sector, Innovation feature of AI, Internal effect, External effect, and SPSS AMOS.
Deadlock Resolution in Private Companies in the UAE: A Comparative Study
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2025-03) MOMANY, OMAR HASSAN; Professor Ayman Masadeh
This doctoral research study aims to preserve the integrity, continuity, and value of deadlocked private companies for the benefit of companies, joint ventures, shareholders, employees, third-party contractors, and the wider UAE economy and its investment regime. To achieve this, the study assesses the extent to which the UAE federal mainland legal system is equipped to provide sustainable legal solutions to shareholders’ deadlock in private companies. The research objective is to identify gaps in the studied legal systems by assessing what rights, relevant to a deadlock scenario, minority and majority shareholders have in a company, and the extent to which interests of such shareholders groups, the company, other stakeholders, need to be balanced, looking at it through the lens of modern and comprehensive stakeholders’ and public interest regulation theories. This study assesses whether and how the UAE Federal Commercial Companies Law (CCL), and the UAE courts deal with such deadlocks and disputes, and the viability of any existing statutory solutions. The research compares such solutions in the UAE, to the extent that they exist, with deadlock-preventive, deadlock-breaking and termination mechanisms offered or practiced under the UK law. Specifically, the study assesses the role of legal tools, such as shareholders’ agreements and their validity and viability to exit a shareholder from a deadlocked company. In doing so, the research analyses the importance and role of shareholders' agreements and their relevant exit clauses, and the extent to which these clauses can be legitimate and enforceable under the UAE legal system, compared to that of the UK. The study explores the appropriate deadlock resolution mechanisms that can work in the UAE legal system. It also aims to provide academic and practical guidance on important problems to benefit shareholders, directors, companies, lawyers, and legislators. It further aims to advance policy and legislative recommendations that will fill the existing gaps including amendments to the UAE CCL and practice that help improve the legal framework of the research problem. The study applies a qualitative doctrinal method built on an interpretive research paradigm required to comprehend the status quo of the topic through scholarly, critical, and comparative analysis of publicly available laws, case laws, and literature. The critical comparative analysis approach is applied between the primary UAE mainland legal system and that of the UK to objectively determine what approach is taken to address the research problem in the UAE and the UK. In addition, the research benefits from qualitative non-doctrinal semi-structured interviews with carefully selected senior lawyers, shareholders, and directors of private companies. The views were gathered and analysed to validate study outcomes and recommendations.
The impact of Transforming an Independent School with Conventional Hierarchal Structure into a Professional Learning Community (PLC) on the Overall School Improvement Process
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2024-11) CHAABAN, NAHED SALEH; Professor Christopher Hill
This research study intends to investigate the impact of shifting school improvement initiatives from being reactive, long delayed, and externally initiated into being more innovative intra-institutionally originated by getting an anonymised independent school established as a professional learning community (PLC). The investigation is focused on reconceptualising school leadership structures to become more collegial and participatory by abandoning the top-down leadership styles, empowering stakeholders’ collaboration and involvement as authentic partners, and thoroughly reviewing the school ethos to redefine its strategic direction in a more inclusive and collaborative approach to become optimally aligned to the stakeholder groups’ aspirations. This transformation is expected to enhance the cultivation of a new sustainable culture that prioritises collaborative learning, institutional efficacy, and continuous improvement. With this PLC model, the school will develop greater agility and capability of coping with the challenges induced by continuous change that is becoming more expedited than ever before. This way, school improvement initiatives become immaculately contextualised and internally initiated, and thus far more sustainably effective than current standardised school improvement models with very limited potential to achieve stakeholders’ aspirations of building a robust system that can internally, sustainably, and proactively revive school improvement dynamics and mechanisms. This investigation is primarily grounded in an anonymised independent school staff’s insights, as represented by their participation in semi-structured interviews and a self-completed questionnaire. The generated data, both qualitative and quantitative, are analysed into three themes which are aligned to three research questions in order to inform discussions and key findings, and inspire data-driven recommendations.
Editorial
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2024-02) Abukari, Abdulai