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Rapid changes in the business world have emerged as significant challenges globally. In fact, business today is moving from a revenue focus to being more knowledge based. Hence establishing a stimulating work environment is essential, due to the competitive market. Innovations in products and services require a new set of practices and integrated technology systems. The United Arab Emirates is one of the most developed countries in the Middle East, and is considered as a destination of first ...

Managing construction in the developing countries including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is critical which emphasises the significance of Risk Management (‘RM’). However, is the organisation managing its risks effectively? This concern may occur from time to time on the top management level. This research aimed to explore the key risks affecting the construction initiatives in the UAE throughout the Project Lifecycle (‘PLC’); and to provide adequate answers for certain research questions, 1...

My research will focus on the role that school leaders play in school transformation by managing change process generated by the changing face of economies and political agendas in any given country. School leadership needs to skilfully manage change in order to minimize chaos and ensure sustainability of the process. This study will focus on the intricate process of change and resistance management. School leaders need to exhibit distinct and diverse leadership styles, as demanded by the cir...

Itswell known and popular that construction projects are highly complex and vulnerable to risks exposure that results in project success objectives variations and overruns if not managed effectively. Thus, project risk management addressed as one of the main components of PMBOK and knowledge in project management practices. The number of researches conducted in construction project risk management where focused on the implementation project risk management processes, identifying critical su...

It is common notion that Continuing Medical Education (CME) has positive effects on the knowledge and competencies of health care professionals (HCP), however, this notion has not yet been fully proven in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) health care context as there is very limited research conducted in this area to confirm this notion. The aim of this research study is to investigate the effects of CME on the knowledge and competency of HCP in the UAE based the UAE University (UAEU) accredited...

The current dissertation sheds light on the difficulties that Syrian refugees and asylum seekers face in acquiring the languages of the countries they had to flee to. To do so, this qualitative research investigated the experience of 45 Syrian refugees and asylum seekers who were hosted by 9 different countries around the world (Germany, Turkey, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, France, Malay, Austria, Romania); it concentrated on the difficulties that these refugees encountered in acquiring the lan...

I would like to thank and appreciate the hard work and the best advice from my advisor, Dr. Hanan Taleb, and her continuous support. I am also very grateful to my family for their continued support and their prayer to me to have a successful journey in BUID and in the rest of my life. Finally, many thanks to all professors and academic staff who were there to develop my learning skills and knowledge in order to increase my efficient working experience in both academic and working fields.

In healthcare world, data science is one of the most important sciences that helps in predicting diseases, and despite the availability of medical data from laboratory tests, most medical institutions in middle east region still do not benefit from these data in diseases analysis and prediction. The purpose of this study is to diagnose acute coronary syndrome using the widely available respiratory diagnosing tools and laboratory test results using data mining classification techniques (Decisi...

The effects of classroom gender composition on students’ academic outcomes have been at the center of a hotly contested discourse. The Al Ain study examines differences in student engagement and student achievement levels between the single-gender and coeducational classroom settings. An assessment of the relationship between student engagement and achievement in the two contexts represents the study’s secondary purpose. Inspired by a worldwide inconsistency in findings on the subject and ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the quality of learning in pre-schools and to understand the differences in children’s learning between ISO quality Certified and Non-certified pre-schools, thereby exploring the importance of quality certifications in pre-schools in the UAE. The study which is based on the learning theories from Piaget and Vygotsky, explored global and local literature that assert the importance of quality pre-schooling. The review on ISO certification principles and r...

The aim of the dissertation is to investigate the influence of the project leadership traits of middle management on project success. Staff job performance is a crucial element as far as organizational project success is concerned and as such factors that contribute to its enhancement are as important to a company. Considering that middle-level managers usually have a direct supervisory engagement with the staff of a corporation and thus influence their productivity and performance directly,...

This case study examines the effects of collaborative-based-digital storytelling on classroom creativity in the Omani, EFL classrooms. Its literature review covers three main topics, which are constructivism, creativity and multimodality. The study adopts an embedded mixed methods approach, QUAL (quan). Convenience sampling, which is a non-probability sampling method, is used to select a sample of 68 participants; 9 English teachers and 59 high school EFL students. The instrument consists of ...

The Construction market represents more than 10% of the global economy, and the demand for infrastructure project is increasing due to population increase. Particularly, in the UAE, the construction market is considered one of the best markets compared to other Middle Eastern countries due to the availability of international companies involved in the construction activity. The use of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology provides a developed communication system to ensure effec...

As the drive towards efficiency and effectiveness in infrastructure spending intensifies, the topic of WLCC (Whole Lifecycle Costing) has taken added importance, aligned with the general mandate of providing the best value for money. The domain of spending on PSA (Physical Security Assets) thereby requires assessment not just regarding the cost but also in various dimensions of risk management, to fulfill the needs and requirements of the users. In addition to that, all elements connected wit...

This study is designed to develop a new method of teaching that aims to improve the ability of second grade EFL learners in UAE to understand, retain, and apply grammatical concepts taught in class in different contexts inside and outside the classroom setting. The study seeks an alternative to the current teaching methods used to teach grammar due to the fact that students are usually scoring low grades in grammar assessments which demonstrate the presence of some flaws of such methods. More...

In contemporary business, talented individuals are considered as one of the most important assets and the key to the success and continuity of any organization. Companies worldwide from many different industries have adopted numerous practices/programs to attract, promote and retain talented employees. These practices/programs are often referred to as “Talent Management”. In general, the main goal of any Talent Management at any organization is to ensure having the right talented people for t...

Nation (2001) explains that attention to vocabulary is unavoidable. Thus; he reflects the inevitable pervasiveness and domination of vocabulary as a main pillar in language production and the creation of corpora. It follows that we can't build vocabulary without reading. In addition, we cannot meet our friends if we stay at home by ourselves all the time. Vocabulary is the central, main pillar and corner stone in second language acquisition. If the learners have sufficient and large amounts o...

This paper concentrates on the impact of education on the economic growth in the United Arab Emirates. It is an endeavor to investigate the degree to which level of education of the work power of UAE influences its economic development that is its yield level. Evolution can produce ethical circles of flourishing and opportunity. Substantial development and work openings enhance motivating forces for guardians to put resources into their youngsters' education by sending them to educational ins...

Having policy in place to monitor schools’ performance is one of the most important aspects in the process of improving teaching Arabic in Dubai schools in order to provide decision makers with accurate data. This research aims to examine the impact of Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) policy on teaching Arabic as a first language in Dubai schools in order to suggest a set of recommendations that might enhance the nature of teaching Arabic. The research sheds light on the impor...