Self-efficacy and Motivations among Saudi Employees toward Creating their Own Business

Alessa, Adlah A.

doi:10.5539/ijbm.v12n6p75

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“…A total of 137 employees believe that FWH would offer better social life. Saudi society has various unique aspects including the value it assigns to social life and the prevalent collectivist culture (Alessa, 2017;Algumzi, 2017;Hofstede et al, 2008). According to Hofstede (2011), collectivists stress on the "we" rather than "I".…”

Section: Social Lifementioning

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An Investigation into Employees’ Factors of Flexible Working Hours (Fwh) for Productivity in Saudi: A Qualitative Triangulation

Mohiya

2023

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Section: Social Lifementioning

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An Investigation into Employees’ Factors of Flexible Working Hours (Fwh) for Productivity in Saudi: A Qualitative Triangulation

Mohiya

2023

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“…This aspect has unique applicability in the Saudi society, which is highly collectivist in nature. Many previous studies have identi ed the uniqueness of the Saudi society in various aspects including culture and tradition (Alessa, 2017;Algumzi, 2017).…”

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An Investigation into Employees’ Factors of Flexible Working Hours (FWH) for Productivity in Saudi: A Qualitative Triangulation

Mohiya

2023

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Background One of the most controversial HRM topics that has received extensive attention from academics and practitioners communities over the past two decades is Flexible Working Hours (FWH) and its impact on productivity. Nevertheless, the work is mostly focused on business and organizational aspects neglecting the employees’ health perspectives. Most importantly, there is a lack of a strong theoretical foundation. Thus, unlike other work, the present study focuses heavily on the employees’ perspective based on a theory; namely: Social Exchange Theory (SET). SET is valuable because it magnifies the importance of the employee as a partner who is in reciprocal social relations. This study aims to explore and evaluate the antecedents of FWH, mainly: employees’ health-related factors, which affect their productivity. Key major concepts to emerge from the literature analysis are brought together, and grouped under mindfulness/well-being. Methods Two triangulated sets of qualitative data were collected, namely: semi-structured interviews and document analysis (cross-sectional and longitudinal). Thirty-two interviews were conducted with employees and with management. Document analysis is a novel source of data that was extracted from the company’s internal technological platform and contains employees’ first-hand computerized typewritten comments about FWH. Results The adopted qualitative triangulated methods assist in interrogation to allow other undiscovered factors to emerge from the analysis of the data which are grouped as sub-themes under quality of time, namely: mid-break, morning and evening person, sleeping and tardiness, and social life. The most significant factors found affecting employees’ decision to demand FWH for productivity are midday breaks, traffic/transportation, and schooling. Conclusions The finding reveals that HR practitioners need to recognize employees’ health and social factors before applying FWH practice. This research lies in the fact that it is one of the first HR health studies to contribute to advancing theoretical and empirical knowledge, particularly in Saudi Arabia. Based on findings from this empirical inquiry, this present research makes an original and important contribution to HR health scholarship and reflects theoretical rigor (Social Exchange Theory), methodological (triangulation methods), empirical, and practical. For example, theoretical contributions regarding SET’s reciprocity “black box” were highlighted.

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“…Unfortunately, very little research characterizes such self-efficacy among leaders in schools in the region. Much of it instead focuses on the private sector (e.g., Alessa, 2017; Pauceanu, Alpenidze, Edu and Zaharia, 2019). In such literature, we see that confidence tends to have the highest relationship to willingness to start a business, for example; confidence is shaped primarily by contextual factors that signal support for risk takers.…”

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Conceptualizing school leadership in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) cultures: Demarcating challenges for research

Bailey¹,

Purinton²,

Al-Mahdi³

et al. 2019

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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Although school turnaround has been studied extensively in Western contexts such as the United States, the applicability of remedies to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has not been extensively studied. The literature that exists predominantly uses a Western cultural lens. This article identifies four key dimensions of leadership for transformation of schools—what is leadership, who becomes a school leader, how are leaders supported, and do school leaders believe they can succeed—, contrasting between the Gulf region and the West; in doing so, the article seeks to explain why the solutions to school failure that originate from the West, widely understood around the globe, are either irrelevant or of limited use in this region. Drawing in part on the authors’ experience in establishing a leadership centre, through collaboration between the Ministry of Education in Bahrain and the Bahrain Teachers College, the article calls for systematic empirical studies to establish how each of the four dimensions inform region-specific approaches to leadership for school transformation and quality improvement. It concludes by arguing that researchers should explicitly consider the extent to which their findings can be translated into practical leadership action in a range of cultural settings.

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Self-efficacy and Motivations among Saudi Employees toward Creating their Own Business

Cited by 4 publications

References 41 publications

An Investigation into Employees’ Factors of Flexible Working Hours (Fwh) for Productivity in Saudi: A Qualitative Triangulation

An Investigation into Employees’ Factors of Flexible Working Hours (Fwh) for Productivity in Saudi: A Qualitative Triangulation

An Investigation into Employees’ Factors of Flexible Working Hours (FWH) for Productivity in Saudi: A Qualitative Triangulation

Conceptualizing school leadership in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) cultures: Demarcating challenges for research

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