By sunset, history was made, when Shaikh Saeed bin Rashid Al Maktoom shock hands with Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan saying: "With God's blessings and you are the president". Shaikh Zayed replied, "With God's blessings, we just set the foundation and we shall start building". This simple authentic story has led to what we know today as the United Arab Emirates. The story of Sieh Al Sedeera Sand Dune shows us authenticity in its most purified form. The presentation will show the links between Authentic Leadership and how it led to: -A vision for a country to bring civilization to its people. -A change of mindset for a whole nation. -A legacy that transformed to the current leaders and people of UAE. -A strong belief in the importance of women's contribution in the UAE's journey.
This research is being conducted in public organizations in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and aims to study the relationship between quality management, innovation and organizational performance. The objective is to clarify this relationship and provide public firms a framework to implement both quality management and innovation while maintaining their competitive advantage.
Developing a UAE Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus Model to Improve the Policy Decision-Making Process Mohamed Alzaabi and Toufic Mezher Khalifa University of Science and Technology PO Box 54224, Abu Dhabi, UAE Abstract: Water, energy and food security are very important issues for United Arab Emirates (UAE). Since the creation of UAE in 1971, many studies have been conducted related to water, energy and food, but none of them considered the nexus approach. The main objective of this research is to develop a water-energy-food nexus model for UAE in order to improve the policy decision-making process. Field data collected by the author (questionnaires), along with other available data, will be used in the construction of a qualitative model. The model intends to evaluate the current water, energy and food policies in UAE, highlighting strengths and challenges facing these policies and make recommendations to relevant authorities for improvement. The expected outcomes of this research should contribute towards achieving the UAE vision 2021, green growth economy 2015-2030 and sustainable development goals of the country.
Over Last three decades, business excellence instead of total quality management has become more common and more widely used. This happened since the promotion of self-assessment model by European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), the model that become one of most popular approach for business excellence, and often when governments around the world began to adopt concepts and applications of this model through the launch of excellence awards for both private and public sectors. On the contrary, quality has turned into systems and applications mostly represented in quality specifications and standards, this has been demonstrated by the successful and widespread of the ISO standards, and keenness of organizations to achieve these international certifications (QMSs). Quality and excellence have been one of the significant mindset of world business management. This study aims to investigate the gap found in previous research -which is explained later- by analyzing the impact of adopting EFQM model the most widely implemented in the UAE and Europe as well, within public sector on the results of government' entities, focusing on the view of the entities themselves, as this focus is, for the most part, put on the opinion of employees of these entities. which provides a more unbiased concept of the internal people who are practicing the model. the findings that obtained by this study could be compared with other results obtained in other countries.
We live in an era of digital revolutions, where technology is disrupting our lives at every moment. One of these disruptions was Amazon Kindle E-reader which revolutionized the way we are reading books today. In this paper, our aim is to analyze and give insights into how Amazon succeed into this on the first look impossible mission. We developed a systematic analysis using the Technology Strategy to create, capture and deliver value. In conclusion, we gave suggestions for the Amazon Kindle product for the following years to come.
The purpose of this research is the development of a comprehensive analysis of the concept of organizational happiness in term of its primary constructs, its influence on organizational performance, and the relevant methodologies for the achievement of this organizational attribute. The primary study involved three research sample clustered into two groups, which are the UAE and the UK/US groups. The study was comprised of a survey-based quantitative research methodology designed through the utilization of Likert-styled questions that the randomized sample of respondents within each group were expected to answer. Subsequent to the attainment sufficient results which included a research sample of 800 respondents, a series of statistical analysis tools were employed including the Kruskal-Wallis Model, the Multi-Nominal Logistic Regression, and the Tree-Based Analysis, all of which worked collectively in order to identify the primary happiness constructs that are of relevance to the UAE.
Background/Aims: Lack of standardised educational programs and courses in the area of genetics and pharmacogenomics are important barriers to the implementation of pharmacogenomics in health care. This study examines the educational environment of pharmacogenomics in the United Arab Emirates. Methods: A thorough search on the nationally accredited universities websites in United Arab Emirates for any educational courses or programs related to pharmacogenomics was conducted and a further interviewing for selected faculty members of the college of Pharmacies in United Arab Emirates about the education provided in this specific area. Results: Our findings show that pharmacogenomics education in the UAE is not homogeneously incorporated in universities' study plan and curriculum in United Arab Emirates and it is not a priority in their future agenda. Conclusions: Pharmacogenomics education as well as the appreciation of its value are vital toward the achievement of personalized medicine goals. Pharmacogenomics should become an integral part of pharmacy school's programs and is recommended to be taught as a stand-alone course to all healthcare providers at the undergraduate level. Moreover, having a shared standard course to ensure homogenous outcomes is advisable.
Obesity is regarded as an increasingly prevalent health problem accompanied by adverse health effects. Despite the vast research assessing nutrition knowledge of patients regarding several health conditions, existing research assessing the nutrition knowledge of post-bariatric surgery patients is limited, although this category of patients is very susceptible to malnutrition. The aim of this study was to assess the patients' general nutrition knowledge and knowledge specific to the dietary protocol post-surgery. This study assessed the medical and nutritional complications associated with surgery. Results showed that the questions assessing nutrition knowledge of the dietary protocol showed that 66.2% of the participants had average knowledge and most patients did not know what dumping syndrome. On the other hand, majority followed up with a dietitian, although only 30.1% showed compliance to the dietitian's instructions. This was strongly related to majority of patients (71.2%) finding the information conveyed as unclear. As for overall quality of life, most of the patients had better quality of life. Future research on this category of patients is definitely needed.
The objective of the research is to develop an integrated social media healthcare model to support the effective adoption of the social media by the healthcare professionals in practice; Moreover, it highlights the multiple factors that relate to the practitioner's behavioral usage of the platforms. The study will draw on the Integrated Behavioral Model as a theoretical background; Moreover, we will identify the influence of the habit and the environmental factors that facilitate or inhibit the successful integration of the behavior. The research will use mixed methods for data collection and analysis. The qualitative phase will explore the salient beliefs of the social media usage. The final stage will associate the variables quantitatively with the effective integration of the social media. The results and analysis of our research aim to inform the healthcare professionals about the best integration of the social media in practice for sustainable performance and health outcomes.
Life course epidemiology dictates that health outcomes can be attributed to habits of the mother even before conception. We aim to investigate the issues which influence fetal and maternal health. Emirati women were recruited between May and September 2017 at a private hospital in Al Ain. We collected information on demographic factors, previous pregnancies, and medication use among others through a self-administered questionnaire. Their medical records were also extracted. 169 women were approached, and 100 (59%) were recruited. Participants were mostly multigravida (56%) with an average of 3 children. Majority of the population was overweight or obese with BMI above 27. 4. 23% suffered from gestational diabetes. There are some challenges in recruiting the local pregnant population and prevailing issues in the community such as higher BMI and gestational diabetes. The overall cohort which aims to recruit 10 000 women will shed light into risk factors that attribute to poor health outcomes.
