Job Localization Policy in Saudi Arabia: Determining its Effect on Employment and Economy

Saad Mohammed Othman

Business and Management Horizons, 2017, vol. 5, issue 1, 12-29

Abstract: Saudi Arabia as part of the largest peninsula in the world is confronting with the incongruity of expanding adolescent unemployed nationals and its egotistical dependence on global business and employment for private organizations. In this topic, Saudi legislature has made assorted strategies to battle unemployment of nationals through job localization policy commonly known as ¡°Saudization¡±. The goals of the discernible administrative arrangement are to lessen the aplenty of global workers through distinguishable standard targets and force confinements on the enlistment procedure of global workers. Abundant research, investigations and reports have uncovered that the precedent-setting stage might realize a spate of instigations for private organizations in the job from claiming Saudi nationals. In any case, the placidity owning of private organizations is take unreservedly to job applications who are global workers prepared to embrace physically difficult works to meet the expectations of organizations with lower compensation. This paper investigates the presumptions behind this acceptance, in an application to be aware better the burly ramifications of job localization policy to global workers and fundamentally evaluate the most qualified fresh saudization proposal pegged as ¡°nitaqat¡± in the implementation procedure of the national manpower in Saudi Arabia.

Keywords: Global workers; Job localization policy; Nitaqat; Saudization; Saudi Arabia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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