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Yahoo!s Acquisition of Maktoob
Hashim Saeed
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What does it take, in your opinion for the Arab employee
to join the Global Work community? What skills and traits
need to be developed?
Culturally, Arabs are constantly challenged with
integrating a degree of social change with development
in society. While being demographically pressured, the
labour force has grown at an average rate of 2.7% over
the past decade; the key factor that leads to lack of
global development is disproportionate labour. A
discrepancy in the labour market has been propelled by
the incompetence of the economy to create highly
skilled work along with inappropriate methods of
providing education to the youth.
One of the main skills lacking in the arab community is
that the youth are not exposed to academics in
comparison to the others. The standard of education is
lower and due to this, the students perform well within
their high school academic life. However, when they
enter the real world they face difficulties as theyre
unable to cope. Theyre aware of their situation and are
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willing to put in extra work in order to obtain an enhanced
working life. This will also help them in easing into the work
environment. Some of the other skills and traits needed tojoin to global community are:
Language Barrier: there are many downsides associated
with language barriers. The most obvious one of them is
the level of frustration involved with not being understood
by others. This can create a hostile environment due to
the lack of effective communication. It can also lead to
misunderstandings that arise from being unable to
successfully put a point forward.
Another aspect of a language barrier is when people use
online language programs or dictionaries as a means to
translate. These sources are not always reliable and can
lead to problems. In situations involving legal or medical
translations, a minor error or an attempt to find an
equivalent word in an Arabic/English dictionary can lead
to the creation of bigger mix up between the two parties.
However, these barriers also come with answers to help
minimize or even completely eradicate the problem. One
of the simplest ways to minimize the risk involved with
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miscommunication is to hire an interpreter who would be
able to effectively translate information. Another way
could also be to provide a few language classes in orderto help facilitate some understanding of the language.
In conclusion
With the help of better education for the arab youth, the
proficiency needed to enter global work communities will
be attained, the need to retrain vocal and verbal skills will
be eradicated. Furthermore arabs should exploit their
resources to build a portal into the vast global community.
References
Education for Employment: Realizing Arab Youth
Potential, IsDB and IFC, April 2011,
www.e4eArabYouth.com.
8 Mona AlMunajjed and Karim Sabbagh, Youth in GCC
Countries: Meeting the Challenge,
Booz & Company, 2011.
http://www.e4earabyouth.com/http://www.e4earabyouth.com/http://www.e4earabyouth.com/