Staff Development Impact on Job Satisfaction amongst Bank Employees in UAE

Staff Development Impact on Job
Satisfaction amongst Bank Employees in
UAE
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Executive Summary
Human resource comprises of the most critical resource for any organization. Especially with
globalisation and technological advent banks in UAE have been impacted with tremendous
amount of competition. In order to compete in the market, banks are basing their capabilities on
staffs and employees. Major concentration has been on their job satisfaction levels through
various endeavors primarily through staff development. Staff development have been found to be
considerably attached to outcomes related to reducing stress and pressure on staffs and also
providing them with adequate motivation. The scope of this current research proposal is
connected with establishment of staff development interrelating with their job satisfaction levels.
Multiple research questions has been developed from this underlying question to establish an
interconnection with that of job satisfaction and staff development. A comprehensive data
collection and research methods with analysis techniques is also included that will help arrive at
key findings and analysis for the study. An ethical guideline and procedure is also highlighted
that has been strictly followed with participants of the study.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
1.0 Introduction...........................................................................................................................4
2.0 Literature Review.................................................................................................................5
3.0 Research Questions...............................................................................................................8
4.0 Proposed Methods.....................................................................................................................8
4.1 Design....................................................................................................................................9
4.2 Participants.............................................................................................................................9
4.3 Procedure.............................................................................................................................10
5.0 Data Analysis...........................................................................................................................11
6.0 Ethical Considerations.............................................................................................................12
7.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................13
8.0 Reference Lists........................................................................................................................14
8.0 Appendix: Ethics Committee Application...............................................................................16
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1.0 Introduction
Globalization and technological advent have led to diversification, which led to companies
offering goods and services across national boundaries. Most integral resource of a company is
human resource on which a company has tremendous amount of dependence (Judge, 2008).
Turnover and absenteeism amongst staffs and employees have been found to be high with
companies that do not take any action with staffs and employees.
Figure 1: Job Satisfaction with Staff Development
Banks in UAE have been faced with major competitive threats from globalisation and opening
up of markets with foreign banks coming in. While foreign banks offered its employees with
immense scope of development and training, banks in UAE though updated their systems,
focused on employees or staffs developing themselves solely. They allowed short breaks and
also paid leaves for upgrading their knowledge, skills and expertise levels. However, these banks
did not undertake any in-house training or development that can lead to staff development (Aziri,
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