Tahseen Consulting | Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Responsibility Service Areas

Strategy and Planning
Program Development and Implementation
Organizational Effectiveness
Performance Management and Evaluation
Partnership Services
Business Process Outsourcing

Specializations

Education and National Skills Systems
Entrepreneurship
Cultural Development

Our Thinking

How Skills Surveys Can More Effectively Identify Workforce Skills Gaps
Through a multicountry review of skills surveys, we propose an alternative approach to establishment skills surveys that can play a more effective role in determining how workforce skills influence achievement of firm business objectives in the Arab World.

Using Social Networking for Change
We see IT as an important enabler for regional development, and we have worked with global technology leaders such as Intel and Microsoft to deepen the impact of regional development programs leveraging technology.

A Regional Institution for Improving the Quality of Education
There are many opportunities for synergies through cooperation between regional education quality programs as well as clear areas of overlap which can benefit from consolidation.

Using Awards Effectively for Social Change
Many award programs in the region focus on large monetary sums to award best practices. We argue that money is not enough, and award programs should reinforce social change through knowledge diffusion, network building initiatives, and follow on training to maximize social impact.

Increasing Female Labor Market Participation With Scholarships
In several countries in the Arab World, women face significant obstacles to obtaining higher education and entering the workforce. We propose an e-Scholarships for Women Initiative to mitigate access, equality, and labor participation challenges.

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Walid Aradi
Chief Executive Officer
Dubai, UAE
E-mail: walid.aradi@tahseen.ae
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Tahseen Consulting advises companies targeting or operating in the Arab World on developing social programs. Our corporate sector engagements benefit from a strong grounding in regional socio-economic development and significant business strategy and operations experience. We use this expertise to help clients make strategically focused social investments linked to their core businesses.

Through our engagements creating large-scale, regional social programs alongside leading multinationals, we understand the challenges companies face when developing and deploying social investments. Please select a service area or specialization below to learn more about our capabilities.

Service Areas	Specializations
Strategy and Planning	Education and National Skills Systems
Program Development and Implementation	Entrepreneurship
Organizational Effectiveness	Cultural Development
Performance Management and Evaluation
Partnership Services
Business Process Outsourcing

Meeting Arab Development Challenges With Mobile Technologies Many of the countries in the Arab World will deliver the highest mobile use growth rates. We believe that social programs leveraging mobile technologies could have both economic and social benefits such as increased mobile adoption and higher revenues for telecom providers, in addition to higher literacy and heath levels.

Towards a Qatar Oil and Gas SectorNational Workforce DevelopmentInitiative This presentation suggests a roadmap for a workforce development initiative focused on the oil and gas sector in Qatar. Evidence suggests that current large-scale projects and the transition to knowledge-based economic development are compromised by current workforce skills levels in Qatar. Companies in Qatar face both skills shortages as well as skills gaps that limit performance and achievement of business objectives.

How Skills Gaps Impact Firm Performance in the Arab World In the Arab World, there is a poor match between regional human capital and the skills demanded by employers. This analysis applies international research to the case of the Arab World to determine the operational impacts of skills gaps on Arab companies.

Knowledge-Based Economic Development in a Post-Awakening Arab World In pursuing knowledge-based economic development, many countries in the region have made large state-driven human capital investments with the goals of job creation, economic integration, economic diversification, environmental sustainability, and social development. An assessment of the effectiveness of Arab investments in human capital shows marginal progress over the last decade.

How Skills Surveys Can More Effectively Identify Workforce Skills Gaps Through a multicountry review of skills surveys, we propose an alternative approach to establishment skills surveys that can play a more effective role in determining how workforce skills influence achievement of firm business objectives in the Arab World.