It's nothing new. With due respect to Bleu he appears to be the exception rather than the rule. The older generation of business people learned their craft the hard way and some leading companies actually do train Qataris properly, but for the most part companies grab Qataris to try to make up their quota and those who show any promise at all are likely to be promoted into executive positions before they've had time to learn the ropes. Then then rely on junior staff to manage the place for them and claim the credit for everything that goes right (hence the need for secrecy).
What is needed is company sponsorship for Qataris, so they can't jump from employer to employer. How's that for an outrageous idea? At the moment, they know that companies have to hire them to meet the quota, so if they don't get a big pay packet, instant promotion and a minuscule workload they can just jump over to another company, leaving their former employer urgently seeking another Qatari to fill the quota hole.
There's talk about balancing the rights of businessmen with those of workers as a justification for the sponsorship system but nobody ever refers to Qatari workers in that context. I wonder why.
How many Qataris have their own shop/business to run, have a full time job in the Government and are also supposedly full-time employees of a private company? How do they manage to give their all to each of these jobs?
It's not just Qataris who are in jobs they can't do who transfer their work to minions. There are plenty of people in middle and senior management positions in the private sector who are incompetent. Fortunately for business owners, a strong economy, limited competition and the efforts of underlings (who need the company to keep going) have often allowed profits to keep flowing despite brain-dead management. That's what I've observed over the last 17 years, anyway.
Mind you, there are plenty of incompetent, over-promoted managers all over the globe. It's not unique to Qatar, thought the quota system here encourages it.
It's nothing new. With due respect to Bleu he appears to be the exception rather than the rule. The older generation of business people learned their craft the hard way and some leading companies actually do train Qataris properly, but for the most part companies grab Qataris to try to make up their quota and those who show any promise at all are likely to be promoted into executive positions before they've had time to learn the ropes. Then then rely on junior staff to manage the place for them and claim the credit for everything that goes right (hence the need for secrecy).
What is needed is company sponsorship for Qataris, so they can't jump from employer to employer. How's that for an outrageous idea? At the moment, they know that companies have to hire them to meet the quota, so if they don't get a big pay packet, instant promotion and a minuscule workload they can just jump over to another company, leaving their former employer urgently seeking another Qatari to fill the quota hole.
There's talk about balancing the rights of businessmen with those of workers as a justification for the sponsorship system but nobody ever refers to Qatari workers in that context. I wonder why.
How many Qataris have their own shop/business to run, have a full time job in the Government and are also supposedly full-time employees of a private company? How do they manage to give their all to each of these jobs?
It's not just Qataris who are in jobs they can't do who transfer their work to minions. There are plenty of people in middle and senior management positions in the private sector who are incompetent. Fortunately for business owners, a strong economy, limited competition and the efforts of underlings (who need the company to keep going) have often allowed profits to keep flowing despite brain-dead management. That's what I've observed over the last 17 years, anyway.
Mind you, there are plenty of incompetent, over-promoted managers all over the globe. It's not unique to Qatar, thought the quota system here encourages it.