The Practice of Public Relations Departments in Increasing Social Support in the Diverse Workplaces of the United Arab Emirates
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Abstract
Thisresearch examines the need for social support and cross-cultural management strategies to facilitatethe organizational orientation of foreign employees. Such organizational support, if indeed it exists at all, is provided through the Public and Employee Relations departments of private-sector companies. Human Resource Management departments do not exist in the UAE per se; the current departments that address employee relations are dual in nature, fulfilling both public relations requirements and addressing the needs of employees. The research investigates how foreign employees find social support and who mentors them in the first year of employment. Information was collected and analyzed from interviews with both new employees and with members of the Public and Employee Relations departments in several companies. It seeks to identify the main problems and stressors that new workers face, the kind of social support foreign workers receive, and the way Public and Employee Relations departmentsrespond to the challenge of working with foreign-born employees who are newly arrived in the UAE. The findings suggest that there is little understanding and/or recognition of the need for organizational support for newly hired foreign employees or human resource strategies to manage diversity and its challenges. Consequently, this article concludes with recommendations for improving the support structure for diverse new employees. However, the primary purpose of this study is to shed light on the need for further research and insight on the needs of foreign workers, and the social, political and managerial consequences of relying on a foreign work force for the majority of labor needs. In other words, there is a need to conduct micro-research thatwould examine specific links between human resource strategies and their effect on a workplace of workers from a variety of national, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Key words: Employee relations; Public relations; Human resources; Social support; Stress and buffer theory; Immigrants; United Arab Emirates Resume Les Emirats Arabes Unis sont unique en son ratio d'expatries etrangers aux citoyens nationaux, ce dernier ne represente que 6%-10% de sa population actuelle. Bien que d'autres pays du Golfe Persique ont des ratios comparables, la force de la main-d'oeuvre immigree des EAU est sensiblement plus elevee due a ses efforts dans la modernisation rapide et le developpement economique sans participation du secteur petrolier. Avec un tel nombre significatif de salaries expatries, des entreprises privees aux EAU offrent etonnamment peu de soutien aux travailleurs etrangers pour que ces derniers s'adaptent mieux a un environnement hautement stressant. En outre, il existe peu de recherches, le cas echeant, qui identifie les besoins et les defis de la gestion d'une telle maind'oeuvre diversifiee et transitoires. La recherche la plus recente souligne l'emiratisation de la main d’oeuvre aux EAU, montrant comment la gestion, y compris la GRH peut faciliter l’augmentation d’une population locale et active .En revanche, cette recherche examine la necessite d'un soutien social et d’une stragegie de la gestion des ressources humaines inter-culturelle pour orienter plus facilement les employes etrangers. Un tel soutien d'organisation serait fourni par les services des relations publiques et les employes de leurs entreprises d’accueil. Les departements de la gestion des ressources humaines n'existent pas dans les EAU en soi; les services actuels qui traitent la communication avec les employes sont de nature double, repondant a la fois les exigences des relations publiques et de repondre aux besoins des employes. L'information a ete recueillie et analysee a partir d'entretiens a la fois avec les nouveaux employes et aux membres des services des relations publiques dans plusieurs societes. Les resultats ont montre que la majorite des nouveaux employes croyaient qu'il y avait un soutien insuffisant pour les aider a s'adapter afin qu'ils puissent devenir plus efficaces en moins de temps. Quelques recommandations ont ete proposees pour ameliorer la structure de soutien pour les nouveaux employes de differentes categories. Cependant, le but principal de cette etude est de faire la lumiere sur la necessite de poursuivre les recherches sur les besoins des travailleurs etrangers et sur les consequences sociales, politiques et gestionnaire de la dependance sur une main d'oeuvre etrangere pour repondre a la majorite des besoins du travail. Actuellement, il n'ya pas de recherche portant cette circonstance dans une perspective de gestion strategique ou tout autre modele theorique qui pourrait etre utile pour les gestionnaires d'entreprises privees dans le Golfe pour repondre aux besoins et aux defis de travailler avec une main-d'oeuvre etrangere dominante. Mots-cles: Relations avec les employes; Relations publiques; Ressources Humaines; Soutien Social; Stress et la theorie de la memoire tampon; Immigrants; Emirats Arabes Unis
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".