Table 3. Disempowering impact on Emirati... | Emerald Publishing

Table 3.

Disempowering impact on Emirati employees

Theoretical dimension	Examples
Sense of personal incompetence	Feeling an externally generated sense of incompetence despite having adequate qualifications
Self-imposed pressure to work harder	Feeling the need to work harder than expatriate co-workers to counter the stereotype that Emiratis are lazy
Sense of marginalisation	Experiencing far more rejection and marginalisation than welcome from immediate co-workers. Hostility was generally implicit but sometimes vocalised
Sense of isolation and misrecognition	Sense of feeling lost while observing expatriate co-workers appear to know exactly what they need to do. This isolation was expressed by one participant as “I’m not in the box”

Theoretical dimension	Examples
Sense of personal incompetence	Feeling an externally generated sense of incompetence despite having adequate qualifications
Self-imposed pressure to work harder	Feeling the need to work harder than expatriate co-workers to counter the stereotype that Emiratis are lazy
Sense of marginalisation	Experiencing far more rejection and marginalisation than welcome from immediate co-workers. Hostility was generally implicit but sometimes vocalised
Sense of isolation and misrecognition	Sense of feeling lost while observing expatriate co-workers appear to know exactly what they need to do. This isolation was expressed by one participant as “I’m not in the box”