The factors that influence the public readiness for change towards privatisation job in the United Arab Emirates

• मुख्य लेखक: Alafeefi, Nabeel Abdulqader Ali Abdulla
• स्वरूप: थीसिस
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी; अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: 2024
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/28403/1/The%20factors%20that%20influence%20the%20public%20readiness%20for%20change%20towards%20privatisation%20job%20in%20the%20United%20Arab%20Emirates.pdf; http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/28403/2/The%20factors%20that%20influence%20the%20public%20readiness%20for%20change%20towards%20privatisation%20job%20in%20the%20United%20Arab%20Emirates.pdf

Privatization has become a global phenomenon and is still among the top priorities in the policy agenda of developing and transitional countries. Due to open economic policy and deregulation, the private sector in UAE is progressing well. Privatization leads to change management of organization. In term of privatization, it is importance for managing the people who’s involved within the structure as the people are the vehicle for success of change. Correspondingly, employees’ readiness is one of the most important aspects of change because readiness is associated with a belief, attitudes and intentions regarding the extent to which changes are needed and the organization can change successfully. However, the change towards privatization job in UAE still slower to be adapted as the public readiness for it still have not fully studied. Therefore, this study proposed a public readiness to change model towards privatization job in the United Arab Emirates. There are three objectives of this study. First, is to analyze the dimension to determine the readiness toward privatization job. Second, is to design a new public readiness for change model of privatization job. Third, is to validate the proposed model in job privatization. The study opted for an exploratory study using a systematic review will be conducted to find the gaps and parameters influencing the readiness for change of public organization. The research study is conducted in UAE with the estimated sample size is 357respondents. To develop public readiness model towards change of privatization job, the data were analyzed based on regression model to test the six hypotheses. The results derived show significant values on Self-Esteem, self-efficiency, leadership competencies and Salary competencies which recorded P-Values of 0.027 0.050, 0.000 and 0.050 respectively that implies significant relationship with influence on enhance change public readiness model are accepted, while the hypothesis related to management support and communication factors are rejected. Based on hypothesis testing and analysis, there is a strong relationship between the significant attributes of public readiness model for change in privatization among UAE citizens with significant R-value which validated the propose model. Overall, the adoption of this model contributes to the impact of organization perspective in assessing the readiness for change that incorporates pertinent antecedents to a public organization in smart government context.