Proposing Revised KHDA Model of School Improvement: Identification of Factors for Sustainable Performance of Dubai Private Schools

Azeem, Muhammad; Mataruna-Dos-Santos, Leonardo José; Abdallah, Rabeb Ben

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32902-0_22

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“…Due to the planned economy's influence, many enterprises' ideas and concepts have lagged behind technological advancements, highlighting the EHRQA problem. Over the last decade, the EHRQA problem has garnered increasing attention from domestic research institutions and scholars, resulting in the development of a large number of EHRQA algorithms [26][27][28][29][30][31].…”

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Construction of the Enterprise Human Resource Quality Evaluation System Based on the WICS Leadership Model

Zong

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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With the advancement of society and economy, the market competition among various businesses has become increasingly fierce. Nowadays, if businesses want to grow in the face of adversity, they must move forward boldly and make use of abundant human resources to fuel their growth. Human resource management is becoming increasingly important. As a result, this paper develops an enterprise human resource quality assessment system based on the WICS leadership model. The differences between the WICS model and the traditional management model are first compared in this paper. The requirements of the WICS model in human resource management are then described. Furthermore, this paper proposes a human resource evaluation algorithm that combines data-driven and WICS models to address the current human resource cost evaluation algorithm's low accuracy and poor effect. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can reflect changing human resource cost characteristics, improve human resource cost evaluation results, and obtain better results than other human resource cost evaluation models and has a wide range of applications.

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Construction of the Enterprise Human Resource Quality Evaluation System Based on the WICS Leadership Model

Zong

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…These values provides evidence of good fit between the model and observed data. Research scale was borrowed from our own previous research (Azeem et al 2018) and modified according to the current research context without compromising on the composition and placement of the scale items. The scale reliability test showing value of Cronbach Alpha of 0.59, which is in reasonable range, and can be improved with the increase in the sample size.…”

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Confirmatory Model of the Workplace Creativity in Higher Education

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Mataruna-Dos-Santos²,

Moalla³

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This study has identified the key factors of workplace creativity in the higher educational institution. Previous studies have provided evidence of the positive correlation between the performance level of students and employees. Similarly, past studies have also explained the close association between favorable cultural conditions and workforce performance. One of such cultural conditions is the culture of creativity and innovation. Many institutions are unable to perform due to lack of motivation among employees to exercise creativity in their work, which is the indication of weak cultural manifestation that provides support for creativity and innovation. Current study has identified twelve key visible practices among employees in the higher educational institutions from the past literature. These indicators were employed to factor-out four latent constructs: presence of challenge in job, motivation to take up the challenging tasks, freedom and flexibility in doing job, and availability of enough resources to experiment. Data was collected from 191 employees in eight institutions of higher education in UAE by using creativity scale questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis was initially employed to verify the structure of the proposed path model, and then relationships between indicators and underlying contracts were tested in the confirmatory factor analysis. Findings show that leadership role is an important element for the development of creative practices among employees, which provokes innovative approach in performing jobs. Employees are motivated in facing the challenges and finding the creative solutions. The study provides valuable information to the leaders in higher educational institutions and policymakers about the importance of the cultural factors which could be used as a criterion identifying presence or absence of workplace creativity and innovation.

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“…The Dubai School Inspection Bureau (DSIB) was founded within the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) with the specific mandate to monitor private schools the Emirate. The DSIB was created to provide independent, comprehensive and reliable information about the standard of education in private schools, explicitly intended to help "inform improvement planning at school and policy level" (KHDA, 2020) and allow for an accountable school choice (Azeem et al, 2020). This approach aligns with the notion of information for accountability (Bruns et al, 2011) promoted as a core strategy that enhances parent ability to make informed decisions.…”

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Accountability and quality assurance for leadership and governance in Dubai-based educational marketplace

Jaafar

Alzouebi

Bodolica

2022

IJEM

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PurposeOver the past decades, there has been an intensifying movement to privatize education in Western nations, with equal concern about the quality of education for all. This article adds to a global understanding of school inspections as a governance mechanism to promote educational quality in an entirely open K-12 educational marketplace.Design/methodology/approachThe role of school inspections as a quality assurance device is examined from a market accountability perspective. The Emirate of Dubai is used as an illustrative example of market accountability, where the educational landscape constitutes primarily a private open market.FindingsDubai proves that market accountability can address the needs of all families, assuring the provision of a sufficient quality standard of education, while allowing for competition to drive improvement. There are two lessons that Dubai offers a global audience that has been debating the merits of privatizing education: a fully free unregulated market does not promote an education system that provides a minimum standard of education for all; and a private education system can address stakeholder concerns and operate successfully in parallel to a public sector.Originality/valueThe idiosyncratic United Arab Emirates (UAE) education sector calls for a balance between flexibility and quality assurance across semi-independent jurisdictions. Hosting a majority of non-Emirati resident families, Dubai has developed a public inspection system for a private education market for quality assurance across 17 curricula offered in 215 private schools with diverse profit models. That most Dubai school-aged children are in private schools demanded accommodating an atypical landscape for K-12 education that affords insights into how a free market can operate. The authors encourage future research that may build a more comprehensive framework for better understanding the public–private education debate.

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Proposing Revised KHDA Model of School Improvement: Identification of Factors for Sustainable Performance of Dubai Private Schools

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Construction of the Enterprise Human Resource Quality Evaluation System Based on the WICS Leadership Model

Construction of the Enterprise Human Resource Quality Evaluation System Based on the WICS Leadership Model

Confirmatory Model of the Workplace Creativity in Higher Education

Accountability and quality assurance for leadership and governance in Dubai-based educational marketplace

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