TY - BOOK ID - 32075428 TI - Employee Motivation in Saudi Arabia : An Investigation into the Higher Education Sector AU - Fallatah, Rodwan Hashim Mohammed. AU - Syed, Jawad. PY - 2018 SN - 3319677411 3319677403 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Business. KW - Manpower policy. KW - Higher education. KW - Business and Management. KW - Asian Business. KW - Human Resource Development. KW - Cross-Cultural Management. KW - Employee Health and Wellbeing. KW - Higher Education. KW - Diversity Management/Women in Business. KW - Employee motivation KW - Universities and colleges KW - Employees. KW - Colleges KW - Degree-granting institutions KW - Higher education institutions KW - Higher education providers KW - Institutions of higher education KW - Postsecondary institutions KW - Public institutions KW - Schools KW - Education, Higher KW - Motivation in industry KW - Work motivation KW - Motivation (Psychology) KW - Personnel management KW - Psychology, Industrial KW - Goal setting in personnel management KW - International business enterprises. KW - Asia—Economic conditions. KW - International business enterprises—Cross-cultural studies. KW - Employee health promotion. KW - Education, Higher. KW - Diversity in the workplace. KW - Cultural diversity in the workplace KW - Cultural diversity in workforce KW - Diversity in the workforce KW - Diversity in the work place KW - Multicultural diversity in the workplace KW - Multicultural workforce KW - Workforce diversity KW - Multiculturalism KW - College students KW - Higher education KW - Postsecondary education KW - Employee wellness programs KW - Employees KW - Health promotion in the workplace KW - Occupational health promotion KW - Workplace health promotion KW - Worksite health promotion KW - Health promotion KW - Occupational health services KW - Employment policy KW - Human resource development KW - Labor market KW - Labor market policy KW - Manpower utilization KW - Labor policy KW - Labor supply KW - Trade adjustment assistance KW - Business enterprises, International KW - Corporations, International KW - Global corporations KW - International corporations KW - MNEs (International business enterprises) KW - Multinational corporations KW - Multinational enterprises KW - Transnational corporations KW - Business enterprises KW - Corporations KW - Joint ventures KW - Education KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32075428 AB - ‘The authors explore how individual motivations in collectivistic societies such as Saudi Arabia may be different from those in individualistic Western societies.  They demonstrate how one such theory, the widely accepted Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, is bounded by culture, religion, and tradition, and has limited generalizability outside the West.’ —Eddy Ng, Professor and F.C. Manning Chair in Economics and Business, Dalhousie University ‘This book contributes to motivation scholarship by putting the theory to test in an under-researched cultural context. Such an endeavour is more than welcome and highly topical in a context where people of Islamic faith and/or from the Middle East are all too often caricatured in the media and political arena, with little empirical knowledge available on which to base analysis.’ —Alain Klarsfeld, Professor of Human Resource Management, Toulouse Business School, University of Toulouse p>p This book investigates the relevance of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as a theory of motivation, whilst taking into account variances in culture and individual experiences and perspectives. Focussing on higher education, the book responds to the call for providing alternative conceptual models, other than those originating from the Anglo-Saxon world. The authors take a contextual approach and use the case of Saudi Arabia to understand motivation in a collectivist, highly religious and conservative society of the Middle East. Providing empirical findings from a study carried out at two Saudi universities differing in their religious outlook, this book reveals a hierarchy of needs that is significantly different from the theory proposed by Maslow. Religion, culture and gender are explored in detail as the authors investigate the relevance of Maslow’s theory in a region that is of growing interest to policy-makers and practitioners in North America and Europe, offering a truly insightful read to an international audience. ER -