the prentence of Qatarization - it never worked in Saudi or the UAE , and the model in Qatar is no different.
I don't begrudge the Qatar government giving extra money to Qataris for working for the Qatari state. But lets be clear about this, this is a case of wealth distrubution, a welfare cheque if you will, not linked to any rise in productivity. A form of largese at its most blatent - Qataris now rely on the state for all their needs and I make no opinion regarding that. It is clear that there are two economies in the country: a public sector to which 90+% of Qataris work in and a privite sector doninated by expats at all levels.
So let's call an official halt to Qatarization - if a Qatari really wants to work as an empolyee in the private sector they should do so on their own merits and not as a result of some government quota or positive descrimination. That would raise the reputation of the Qataris within the privite sector and give those individuals a better sense of worth about themselves, rather than a filler of a resource and profit wasting 'non-job' just to forfill some aribitary government quota.
The comment below from the Financial Times echoes the thoughts I outlined above:
But the pay raises, like the additional spending elsewhere in the GCC, conflict with governments’ simultaneous efforts to develop the skilled local workforce needed to wean their countries off their dependence on expat workers. The vast majority of working Qataris do so in the public sector, while the private sector is filled with foreigners, a pattern found in much of the Gulf.
Programmes to encourage the private sector to hire more locals, known as Qatarisation, have had limited success. Employers balk at hiring skilled nationals whose expectations are shaped by government employers who generally offer higher pay, better job security, and less demanding workloads than the private sector.
The raises in Qatar are “a big step against Qatarisation, but there’s so little Qatarisation that there’s not much that they could destroy,” says Steffen Hertog, an academic at the London School of Economies who studies Gulf labour issues.
the prentence of Qatarization - it never worked in Saudi or the UAE , and the model in Qatar is no different.
I don't begrudge the Qatar government giving extra money to Qataris for working for the Qatari state. But lets be clear about this, this is a case of wealth distrubution, a welfare cheque if you will, not linked to any rise in productivity. A form of largese at its most blatent - Qataris now rely on the state for all their needs and I make no opinion regarding that. It is clear that there are two economies in the country: a public sector to which 90+% of Qataris work in and a privite sector doninated by expats at all levels.
So let's call an official halt to Qatarization - if a Qatari really wants to work as an empolyee in the private sector they should do so on their own merits and not as a result of some government quota or positive descrimination. That would raise the reputation of the Qataris within the privite sector and give those individuals a better sense of worth about themselves, rather than a filler of a resource and profit wasting 'non-job' just to forfill some aribitary government quota.
The comment below from the Financial Times echoes the thoughts I outlined above:
But the pay raises, like the additional spending elsewhere in the GCC, conflict with governments’ simultaneous efforts to develop the skilled local workforce needed to wean their countries off their dependence on expat workers. The vast majority of working Qataris do so in the public sector, while the private sector is filled with foreigners, a pattern found in much of the Gulf.
Programmes to encourage the private sector to hire more locals, known as Qatarisation, have had limited success. Employers balk at hiring skilled nationals whose expectations are shaped by government employers who generally offer higher pay, better job security, and less demanding workloads than the private sector.
The raises in Qatar are “a big step against Qatarisation, but there’s so little Qatarisation that there’s not much that they could destroy,” says Steffen Hertog, an academic at the London School of Economies who studies Gulf labour issues.
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/09/09/public-pay-raises-vs-qatarisation/#ixzz1XRr0XYbf