Exploring Human Resource management practise through the Qatar HR Forum; framing the influence of 'Tharaba' culture and the development of Qatar-centric competencies for HR professionals practising in Qatar

Qatarisation policy has emerged from the Qatar National Vision 2030 and has become embedded into organisations’ core strategic visions. Qatarisation aims to place knowledgeable local Qataris into senior professional roles to lead their country. Human Development is a core pillar of the National Vision and is an expected responsibility of each organisation and its employees. This responsibility directly impacts the Human Resource Management (HRM) function and HRM professionals developing talent in Qatar. This is a challenge due to a lack of Qatar-centric frameworks available to HR Professionals practising in Qatar and a lack of understanding of influences on HRM Practises. The research focused on overcoming this challenge and contributing to a sustainable framework solution for HR professionals in Qatar. There were three main aims; to review HR literature while exploring the fundamental principles and context of the HR professional practise in Qatar; to explore ways HR practitioners in the Qatar HR Forum could drive and support a change in HRM practise, and to contribute to professionalising HRM Practise in Qatar. A qualitative interpretivistic approach explored the experiences and perceptions of HR professionals practising in Qatar, who are members of the Qatar HR Forum, through surveys, interviews, and focus groups, to understand the complexities of HRM in Qatar. The findings show that distinctive expatriate and Qatari influences need to be considered with a new framing of how Qatari culture might influence and impact current and future HRM practises. This has been conceptualised as ‘Tharaba Culture’ – ذرابه , which encompasses behaviours, customs, and unwritten expectations that locals acknowledge as their culture. It is based on influences such as family ties, leadership status, expected norms and non-negotiable behaviours, engulfed in the wisdom of the respected elders formulated from tribal descent. The research further impacts practise, with a significant outcome being the development of a Qatar-centric HR competency framework, which will provide a foundation for HR professionals to meet the unique challenges and complexities of HRM practise in Qatar

Synthesis of Some New Tetracyclic Pyrimidine Derivatives Using Exocyclic α,β-Unsaturated Ketone and Evaluation of Their Antitumor Activities

Thiazolopyrimidine 2 was obtained from the reaction of dihydropyrimidinone with chloroacetic acid and benzaldehyde. Thiazolopyrimidine 2 containing an α,β-unsaturated ketonic function [-CH=CH-CO-] has been used as a component of Michael addition with an equimolar amount of dinucleophiles to give a series of novel tetracyclic pyrimidine derivatives. Treatment of thiazolopyrimidine 2 with uracil, aminotriazole, cyanoacetic acid hydrazide, o-phenylenediamine or diaminopyridine afforded the corresponding pyridopyrimidine, triazolopyrimidine, pyrazolone, benzodiazepine and triazepine derivative, respectively. The detailed synthesis, spectroscopic data, and antitumor activity for synthesized compounds were reported

The reform of solid waste management in Cairo: Lessons learned from international models

Most criticism about Cairo’s dysfunctional solid waste management system has been directed towards the multinational companies managing it since 2002. This study explores the reason for this dysfunction and accordingly devises operational reform recommendations. The study relies on qualitative primary data obtained from interviewing representatives of the Egyptian government, private sector partners, workers, civil society organizations, investors and consultants during 2014 and 2015. The study also relies on the review of secondary data about different international models, particularly Brazil, which was taken as a case study for comparative analysis. The data collected shows that the current management system is ineffective due to the Egyptian government’s insufficient financial and administrative planning prior to contracting with multinational companies. Additionally, systemic problems at Cairo’s local administration level has led to a continued state of a hindrance to reform efforts. Cairo’s officials have already identified some relevant reform interventions to introduce. These include substituting the multinational companies with the national companies formed by traditional waste workers of Cairo, introducing financial and administrative reforms, encouraging recycling through applying waste segregation at source, and supporting composting and waste-to-energy technology. Success of these reform plans, however, is dependent on the national solid waste management authority’s autonomy, ability to devise and implement a national policy plan that takes different stakeholder interests into account and the capacity of waste workers to organize under legal entities

Recursive Detection of M-Ary Signals over Fast Varying Mobile Communication Channel

          Mobile radio is characterized by a fast time varying channel. Conventional detectors which designed optimal for non-fading channel exhibit a limited performance in fast time varying channel. In this paper a recursive detector for M-ary signals over fast time varying mobile communication channel is introduced. The proposed detector continuously estimates the channel directly within the metric calculation of the log-likelihood function in a recursive manner. The estimation of the channel is performed by the covariance form of the recursive least square approach. The performance of the detector is evaluated in terms of the misdetection probability. The effects of timing and phase offsets on the performance of detector are examined by simulation. Simulation results show that the proposed detector can accommodate the fast time varying channel with adequate performance

DEBT SUSTAINABILIY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN EGYPT

The persistence growth of Egypt's public domestic debt has raised concerns regarding its impact on economic growth and fears are being express about the debt sustainability. Utilizing data for the period 1981-2006, the results obtained from cointegration model reveal that the public domestic debt in Egypt has a robust negative impact on growth. The sustainability of debt was examined used some algebra methods. The results suggested that the recent path of debt followed in Egypt was sustainable. For debt to remain sustained in future, substantial fiscal reforms are needed and policies should be adopting to maintain an increasing growth-interest rate differential.Public Domestic Debt; Fiscal Budget; Debt Sustainability; Economic Growth; Cointegration.

The compatibility of Yusuf Al Qaradawi\u27s wasateyya school of thought with the second generation of the Muslim Brotherhood

This paper aims to study the influence of the Wasateyya (centrist) school of thought on the Muslim Brotherhood\u27s second generation of leaders. The study shows that the Wasateyya school and its advocates within the Muslim Brotherhood were unsuccessful in bringing about a meaningful change in the direction of moderateness within the movement. The research assesses the influence of the Wasateyya school of thought by evaluating the compatibility of Qaradawi\u27s ideology with that of four members of the middle generation of the Brotherhood; Abd El Moniem Abul Fotouh, Essam el Eryan, Khairat al Shater, and Mohamed Morsi. The thesis is composed of seven large sections; sections one to three introduce the research question, methodology, and limitations. Section four is a literature review, section five addresses the relationship between Qaradawi and the second generation of the MB and defines ideological and political Wasateyya, section six is about the case study of the four leaders, and finally section seven concludes the main findings of the study