The Philosophical Reality of Career Management Strategies and The Applied Framework of Knowledge Workers Within The Framework of Cultural Diversity of Human Resources
An Analytical survey Research in a Sample of Iraqi
Organizations
Submitted To
The Council of the College of Administration & Economics- at The University of Karbala, in Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for The Phd in Business Administration
Research submitted by
Saleh Mahdi M. Al-Hisnawi
Supervised By
Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr.
Mauyad Yousif AL-Saidi Adnan Kareem Najim
The aim of this research is to investigate the philosophical situation of career management strategies, which amount to 25 strategies, as per previous studies. The current career situation has not witnessed a great increase in number within the frame of the third millennium. Thus the research aims at revealing the philosophical situation of these strategies as a preliminary step to test the applied situation of the work of knowledge workers, this is carried out within the framework of the modern currents that characterize human resources which are described as roaming resources of varied cultures and skills.
The Iraqi health organizations (Directorate of Holy Karbala Health, Directorate of Najaf Health, Directorate of Babylon Health, Directorate of Wasit Health, Karbala Cement Limited Company) have been chosen to identify a sample of knowledge workers amounting to (150) Iraqi respondents and (125) foreign respondent.[1] The research presents a number of questions.
The research aims at revealing the position of careers in Iraq through modern strategies, and to find out the most applicable strategy, also to reveal the situation of the characteristics of incoming knowledge workers and factors for attracting them, the size of the gap between them and their Iraqi counterparts, to investigate whether the factor of cultural diversity is a source of strength or weakness for the concerned organizations, and to reveal the method of managing them.
It is expected that the research would widen the vision of workers stretch the present boundaries of career in a way that fits with open-ended career situation. The results of the research are considered as digital field indicators that incite management leaderships to reevaluate their understanding of the new career situation and the organization’s input of human resources on the bases of the developments witnessed in international business environment.
The research relies on Curriculum Based Research and Analysis approach, non-parametric analysis and processing tools have been employed due to the nature of the research data.
The research has arrived at the conclusion that career management strategies contribute in business implementation causing less problems to the organization as well as the human resources. Cultural diversity of human resources in career organizations is a crucial factor because of cultural differences of these resources.
The most significant recommendation of the research is that organization managements have to work on the creation and continuity of the appropriate circumstances of knowledge workers, and to follow up the creative ideas they present that serve the organization goals on the long run, and to stress the role of cultural diversity of human resources because of the spread of globalization that led to the easy transference of human resources among countries.
