desert_traveller
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
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 Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:30 am Post subject: newbie managers in the ksa (featuring a quote from tambok17) |
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i found this great passage below in another topic (about STA/SDT) written by my highly respected colleague tambok17. i thought it was worth starting a new topic as i find it sort of thought provoking:
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| It is interesting how people's experiences vary. Thank you for sharing your notes and observations. Another problem that I have found is that the company promotes/puts in positions managers who have sometimes not been in Saudi Arabia long, or at all , and who try and impose other countries' ethics upon the Saudi system and us employees who try and do things the Saudi way. Those who had worked in the Emirates bring their dog-eat-dog style to Saudi, they sometimes gossip and slander people behind their backs- all in a place much more relaxed and harmonious. Those who had been in the British system for a long time bring their neocolonial, cruel Germanic ethics into the very friendly and "measured" Saudi work place. By the time they have figured out how Saudi works, a lot of damage has already been done- mostly to long time Saudi hands who had been there forever. |
what do you guys think (especially about the lines i have italicized)? |
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