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Demographics of the Workforce in UAE

The latest estimation of the U.A.E’s population in 2012 has come around to 5, 314, 317 people. As a small number of populace, you’d also estimate that the demographics of the workforce within the country grow at a slow rate, which is 3.055%. Furthermore 65.4% of the population falls at the age of working force from ages 25-65 years old. ("United Arab emirates," 2013)

25-54 years: 61.6% (male 2,497,606/female 774,318),

55-64 years: 3% (male 122,356/female 38,402),

65 years and over: 0.9% (male 31,942/female 18,084) (2012 est.)

We can observe from the statistics that most employees are males.

As in the globalization age that we live in now, we understand that every country has a mix of ethnic groups, as well as each of those groups carry a certain religion. Well, in the U.A.E surprisingly less than 20% are homeland citizens, where as other Arab nationalities as well as Iranian add up to 23%, obviously the Asians come up to 50%, and other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8%. Each one of those backgrounds carries a religion and the stats say that Muslim (Islam - official) 96% (Shia 16%), other (includes Christian, Hindu) 4%. Each of those backgrounds have their language spoken which leads me to my context, which is communication. The U.A.E holds five main different languages Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu. With all of those languages combined in the workforce, it may cause communication issues to occur, often. ("United Arab emirates," 2013)

During the communication process, we go through 8 steps during a two-way conversation. It always begins with the first that is the sender: he/she initiates a message, follows is encoding the thought into a message, the message is then sent out of what is being communicated, then it travels through the channel that is distancing them, the receivers decodes the message, and he/she gets the message, along the way there are the distractions traveling along...