The Strategic Plan of The Faculty of Business Administration

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The Strategic PlanofThe Faculty of Business
Administration

• King Saud University

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Contents

• Introduction.
• Status quo analysis SWOT.
• The strength points of the Faculty of Business
  Administration.
  
• The weak points of the Faculty of Business
  Administration.
  
• The available opportunities of the faculty.
• The challenges which are facing the faculty.
• The future vision of the faculty and its
  message.
  
• The general limited objectives.
• Implementation techniques according to the
  criteria of the Faculty of Business
  Administration.
  
• The programs as per the time extent.
• Standard References.

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The strength points of the Faculty of Business
Administration

First Students. Second Teaching staff members
and employees. Third Studying plans and curric
ula. Fourth Educational Environment and infrastr
ucture.
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The strength points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationFirst Students

• There is a great demand form the students on
  joining to the faculty due to its location in the
  Kingdoms capital and its belonging to the
  biggest and oldest university in the Kingdom.
• There are recognition and awareness from the
  students of the importance of the development
  either the studying curricula or the
  administrative system in the faculty for
  qualifying them in a better image to get the
  appropriate jobs by graduation.
• A great number of graduates occupied the leading
  posts in the public and private sectors,
  
• Increasing the students qualification level
  represented in the admission numbers to the
  faculty.

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The strength points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationSecond Teaching staff members
and employees

• There are great available numbers from the
  teaching staff members who got their certificates
  from the best international universities.
  
• The scientific research production of the faculty
  teaching staff members will be published in the
  standard scientific periodicals both the local,
  regional and international levels.
• A good numbers of the faculty teaching staff
  members are working as advisers to several
  institutions in administrative and economical
  fields in order to connect the faculty, they are
  belonged to, and the university with the society.

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The strength points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationSecond Teaching staff members
and employees

• There are scientific, specialized and
  distinguished references in the faculty.
  
• The existence of will between the teaching staff
  members to achieve the quality of the main
  aspects of the university education.
  
• There are highly qualified teaching staff members
  from males in all specializations and degrees in
  the faculty.
  
• The existence of young national manpower in the
  administration field (employees) in the faculty.

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The strength points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationThird Studying plans and
curricula

• The great importance of the faculty
  specialization in respect of the national economy
  and labor market.
  
• The curricula structure is standard and
  comparative- in most of the facultys
  departments- as prevailed in the regional
  international universities.
• The post graduate programs have good reputation
  in the labor market.
  
• The strong desire and feelings between the
  teaching staff members of the necessity of the
  continued development to the studying curricula
  to match with the international developments.

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The strength points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationFourth Educational Environment
and infrastructure

• The full support offered to the administrative
  leaders in the ministry, university and the
  faculty for the development process.
  
• The financial and tangible capabilities are
  available to enhance and support the development
  process.
  
• The required land for the faculty expansion and
  building new institutions are available .

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The weak points of the Faculty of Business
Administration

First Students. Second Teaching staff member
s and employees. Third Studying plans and curr
icula. Fourth Educational Environment and infr
astructure.
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The weak points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationFirst Students

• The graduates skills are weakly meet the labor
  market requirements.
  
• There is a ration of unemployed graduates.
• Increasing the rate of the registered students in
  the faculty.
  
• The low level of the accepted students in the
  university especially the quantitative,
  mathematical, English language and computer
  capabilities.
• The facilitation of students scientific level in
  admission either university or post graduate
  studies.
  
• The weak of the students guidance and supporting
  programs.

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The weak points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationFirst Students

• The weak of the non-summer activities for the
  students.
  
• Increasing the students numbers in most of the
  departments more than the international
  standards.
  
• The students depend basically, in their different
  curricula, on the short memos without increasing
  their other information resources like the
  related curricula and further readings.
• The approved students, in the non-scientific
  specializations, who has found difficulty to pass
  the secondary level.
  
• The great majority of students give their
  interest to obtain the bachelor degree as a
  target itself- more than their concern of
  educational skilled in the field of
  specialization.

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The weak points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationSecond Teaching staff members
and employees

• The slight communications between the faculty
  management and the teaching staff members.
  
• The few numbers of the teaching staff members.
• The increasing rate of the teaching staff members
  who are seeking to work outside the university.
  
• The inability of attracting the required numbers
  of the highly qualified teaching staff to work in
  the faculty due to the weak of the financial
  motivations.
• The increasing of the teaching burdens on the
  teaching staff shoulders in all departments can
  be showed in the teacher/student rate and as per
  the sections standard numbers.
• The partial dependence on the cooperative
  teaching staff from outside the university to
  complete the distribution of teaching
  responsibilities.
• The lack numbers of assistant teaching staff who
  helped in the applied and supportive scientific
  mission.
  
• There are not research assistants in the faculty
  scientific departments.
  
• The noticeable lack of the female staff in all of
  the specialized departments of the faculty.

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The weak points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationSecond Teaching staff members
and employees

• The faculty and university weak belonging of some
  of the teaching staff members.
  
• The weak of allowances, motivations, wages and
  salaries of the teaching staff members.
  
• The ambiguity of the teaching staff evaluation
  system and the absence of the objective standards
  of evaluation process and rewarding accordingly.
  
• The distinguished and active members of the
  teaching staff did not get any rewards and the
  negligent ones did not punish.
  
• The teaching staff members especially the
  academic guides are unable to access
  electronically into the students records to have
  a look on it and thus obstacle the academic
  guidance process.
• Some of the teaching staff members did not use
  the computers and internet in teaching as well as
  the internal communications with the rest of
  colleagues.
• There are not any guidance programs for the
  teaching staff members and departments head who
  are newly employed in the faculty.
  
• Inadequateness and inefficiency of the assistant
  administrative staff in the faculty.

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The weak points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationThird Studying plans and
curricula.

• There is not a clear vision of the facultys
  message and its departments. (knowledge
  objectives and required skills).
  
• The old methods to some of specializations.
• The weak coordination between the departments
  regarding studying curricula, researches and
  monitoring in the final tests.
  
• There are not appropriate books and university
  references in Arabic language in some of the
  specializations and the weak or elderly of the
  existence ones.
• The weak of the scientific and tangible
  motivations that related to university book
  production.
  
• There are not the objective measurement or
  standards to measure the graduates qualification
  level.

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The weak points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationThird Studying plans and
curricula.

• The continuity of using the traditional methods
  of teaching as well as the absence of
  technological means and modern presentation
  methods in teaching.
• The weak of the scientific activities in the
  forms of workshops, forums, and lectures in the
  faculty.
  
• The facultys scientific departments are busy
  with the academic teaching affairs due to the
  increase of teaching burdens rather than
  scientific and research activities.
• The poor usage of the internet in teaching due to
  the non-existence of technicians and the required
  technical support.
  
• The studying programs are not updating on the
  faculty web site continually.
  
• The weak the process of the distance learning
  curricula in the faculty.
  
• The lectures are focusing on the morning shift
  and while the studying are not used well in the
  evening one.

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The weak points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationFourth Educational Environment
and infrastructure

• The absence of the future vision and the clear
  strategic plan for the university affect
  passively on the facultys vision and strategies
  accordingly.
• The developing procedures are slow in the faculty
  that affect passively on the faculty quick
  development.
  
• The cauterization of the financial affairs and
  the facultys inability to take any financial
  decision without coming back to the university
  management.
• The shortage of academic and administrative
  information in the university.
  
• The weak and delay in registering the curricula,
  final grades and degrees in the faculty.
  
• The existed buildings and its furnishings are
  disable to meet the facultys needs.
  
• The great part of the T.V. system did not connect
  the departments of female students.

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The weak points of the Faculty of Business
AdministrationFourth Educational Environment
and infrastructure

• The weak of the internet and intra-net in the
  university, its repeated breaking down and there
  is not the sufficient technical support to the
  facultys web site.
• The low maintenance service level for the
  equipments and sets.
  
• The full dependence on the governmental funding
  and the limiting of alternative resources.
  
• There is not a specialized department for the
  video and audio multi media, supported by the
  qualified technicians.
  
• The weak security in faculty as obvious in many
  forms
  
• The computers, printers and presentation sets
  (Projectors) are subject to be robbed during the
  few last years.
  
• The wise spreading of bad behaviors that
  conflicted with the rules and regulations of the
  university such as eating and smoking in the
  corridors, stairs and studying halls.
• The students Engaged the specialized parks for
  the teaching staff members and employees
  
• Some cars of the teaching staff members are
  subject to damaged by students.

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The available opportunities of in front of the
faculty

• The prevailing social and economical changes in
  the Saudi society at the present time.
  
• The great expansion and growth in the different
  sectors of the national economy and the needs of
  such sectors to graduates who have the
  capabilities, personal and highly technical
  skills to face the centurys challenges.
• The increase of awareness level, leadership and
  society interest with the development process
  generally, and increase the quality in all
  fields especially in the facultys
  specialization.
• The increasing needs for the post graduate
  studies in the different specializations of the
  faculty.

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The available opportunities of in front of the
faculty

• The availability to open new departments and
  courses which have the important of the local,
  regional and international labor markets.
  
• Some of the Saudi social leaders to cooperate
  with the faculty in developing process and its
  support.
  
• The information is available regarding similar
  developing experiences in some of the other
  international leading universities and
  faculties.
• There are cooperative agreements between King
  Saud University and a number of the international
  universities. The faculty can benefit or increase
  them by a way to serve its objectives.

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The challenges which are facing the faculty
The strong competition that is facing the faculty
from the recent government of national and
foreign faculties of business administration as
well as the other ones that will be expected to
be opened after the Kingdom sets free the sector
of high education services. The enormous technolo
gical challenges which are represented in the
educational technologies, programs, and teaching
methods as well as the role of internet and the
world wide web (WWW). The need to the existence o
f great flexibility in the departments and in the
different facultys academic bodies, in addition
to increase the cooperation ties between them in
order to achieve the quick appropriate
familiarity with the rapid environmental changes.
The parallelism between the objectives students
understanding and admission.

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The challenges which are facing the faculty
The necessity of increasing the means of
attraction for joining to the facultys teaching
staff. The need to a detailed plan for human reso
urces development in the university level.
The need to guide and aware the teaching staff
members and employees of the faculty.
The need to train the facultys administrative
sector (administrative employees and departments
secretaries), increasing their skills,
stabilizing the work value and spread the spirit
of the work team. The necessity of benefiting fro
m the international experiences.
The non-applied indicators and international
standards for the facultys inputs and outputs
processes. The full dependence on the governmenta
l financing and the limit of the alternative
resourses.

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The future vision and message of the faculty

• The Future Vision
• The Faculty of Business Administration,
  King Saud University, will become one of the
  pioneering faculties in the Arab World.
  
• The Message
• Prepare highly qualifies staff in the
  different specializations of the faculty, its
  scientific degrees, researches, excellent and
  distinguish academic studies as well as
  participating in offering the relevant works to
  serve and develop the society.

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The General objectives

• Graduate the qualified staff from the different
  facultys specializations.
  
• Qualify the youth to obtain the appropriate
  working opportunities in the international labor
  market.
  
• Participate in developing the human knowledge,
  its adopting and means from availing from it in
  the various departments.
  
• Participate in solving both the economical,
  administrative and financial problems which are
  facing the society of the business sector,
  governmental sector and non- governmental
  organizations throw doing the researches and the
  applied studies.
• Participate in serving of the governmental
  sector, business sector, public institutes and
  civil society institutions.

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The Definite Objectives

• The faculty will be one of the best three
  faculties in the middle east level and one of the
  300 faculties worldly during the next five
  years.
• The faculty programs will obtain the
  international academic approval during the five
  years.
  
• The faculty will have building and technical
  equipments which are similar to the ones of the
  international business administration faculties
  during three years.
• The faculty will accommodate the capacity of 9000
  male/female students in the bachelor grade and
  2000 male/female students in the post graduate
  programs.
• The rate of the operational efficiency will be
  teacher/student (1/25) as a maximum limit to
  increase the scientific effectiveness.

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The Definite Objectives

• The faculty will have the academic and applied to
  serve the needs of the labor market.
  
• Evaluating and developing of the existed post
  graduate programs.
  
• The revision and effectiveness of the approved
  post graduate programs.
  
• The expansion of the port graduate programs by
  creating 7 seven new programs as follow
  
• Master Degree in Business
  Administration.
  
• The specialization of Management
  Information System in the Business
  Administrations Master Degree.
  
• The specialization of Insurance in the
  Business Administrations Master Degree.
  
• Executive Business Administrations
  Master Degree.
  
• Master Degree in the Executive General
  Management.
  
• Ph-D in Economy.
• Ph-D in General Management.
• The faculty will have an advanced research
  center, specialized studying centers and
  specialized researching chairs.

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The Definite Objectives

• The faculty will have an organization structure,
  administrative and academic advanced systems.
  
• The faculty will have the sufficient and
  qualifies numbers from the teaching staff
  members, administrators, researching assistants
  and will-equipped technicians.
• Recruiting sufficient and qualifies numbers from
  the administrative assistants and searching
  assistants in all the facultys programs.
  
• The faculty will have training programs and
  approved centers specialized for conducting the
  international standard examinations.
  
• The faculty will the qualifying and training
  programs for its administrative staff.
  
• The re-qualifying of the teaching staff members
  with the needed specializations for the labor
  market.
  
• Developing the skills of the teaching staff
  members in the fields of education methods and
  techniques as well as the scientific research.

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The Implementation Techniques

• Create a consultative council for the facultys
  plans and programs in the private sector and
  international universities.
  
• Create the separate units for the management of
  the academic, technical and training programs.
  
• Innovate the post graduate agency in the faculty
  to supervise on all the post graduate studies
  programs.
  
• The facultys post graduate studies are identical
  with the other ones of the international
  universities.
  
• Create specialized studying centers which
  supported by the researching chairs.
  
• Supply the facultys building with the distance
  learning techniques and electronic education.
  
• Create a quality assurance and guaranty unit.

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The Plans Aspects

• The achievement of the plans strategic
  objectives required the follow
  
• Quality .
• Scientific Research.
• Post graduate Programs.
• Quantitative initiative approaches.
• Teaching Staff Members.
• Technical preparations.
• The interaction with the business society locally
  and worldly.
  
• Regulative and administrative environment.
• Evaluation of the graduates capabilities.
• Admission and understanding.

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The Quality

• The quality of the educational process
  covers the learning and teaching methods, the
  techniques of evaluating students, teaching staff
  members, academic programs and learning types.
• Some of the main ways to achieve quality
  are
  
• - Program No. (1)
• The quality assurance and the national as
  well as the international academic dependence.
  
• - Program No. (2)
• The center of developing and measuring
  both the skills of the students and graduates.
  
• (2-1) The tests program of the applied
  and banking efficiency in the different
  specializations.

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The Scientific Research

• - Program No. (3)
• The center of energy economics studies.
• - Program No. (4)
• The economics studies center of the
  petrochemicals industries.
  
• - Program No. (5)
• The Center of Islamic Banking Studies.
• - Program No. (6)
• The center of The GCC economics studies.
• - Program No. (7)
• The center of the financial market studies.
• - Program No. (8)
• The center of the market studies.
• - Program No. (9)
• The center of strategic studies and
  regulations..
  
• - Program No. (10)
• The center of the advanced governmental studies.

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Post graduate Programs

• - Program No. (9)The program of developing the
  postgraduate studies.
  
• First Evaluating and developing the existed
  programs
  
• Economy Master Degree.
• Business Administration Master Degree (Marketing,
  Finance, Human Recourses, Operations).
  
• Accounting Master Degree.
• Hospital and health management Master Degree.
• General administration Master Degree.
• Second Review and put into force the existed
  and approved programs
  
• Ph-D in Business Administration (Marketing,
  Finance, Management).
  
• Ph-D in Accounting.

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Post graduate Programs
Third Innovate seven new post graduate studies
programs Master Degree in Business Administrati
on. The specialization of Management Information
System in the Business Administrations Master
Degree. The specialization of Insurance in the Bu
siness Administrations Master Degree.
Executive Business Administrations Master
Degree. Master Degree in the Executive General Ma
nagement. Ph-D in Economy. Ph-D in General Manag
ement.
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The quantitative initiative approaches

• This field is including recently a number of
  the major quantitative initiative approaches
  which aimed to fulfill the needs of the society
  and its different production sectors form
  training and high education in the Kingdom.
• - Program No. (12)
• The parallel education program.
• - Program No. (13)
• The center of Certified Financial Accountants
  (CFA).

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The Teaching staff Members

• The interest of the recent teaching staff
  members is focused on developing and improving
  the teaching skills as well as the scientific
  research for them in the university. Helping in
  using the modern technologies in education and
  learning fields. Identifying on the performance
  evaluation methods both to the students and the
  teacher. Developing the instructive interaction
  methods with students.
• This field includes the following programs
• - Program No. (14)
• Modernize and developing the methods and
  skills of teaching as well as the dealing process
  with students.

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The Technical Preparations

• The learning techniques includes a wide range
  of the required modern technologies to supply the
  educational service in a modern and developed
  form. In addition to the intelligent boards and
  multi media sets, there are the presentation sets
  such as LCD Projectors, the equipped halls with
  video conference techniques, internet publishing
  and the other advanced office, and administrative
  sets and equipments
• - Program No. (15)
• The program of developing the education
  technology in the faculty.

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The interaction with the business society locally
and worldly

• - Program No. (16)
• Graduate Relation Unit.
• - Program No. (17)
• The Consulting Council.
• - Program No. (18)
• The center of preparing the administrative
  leaders.
  
• - Program No. (19)
• The center of Business Information.
• - Program No. (20)
• The center of the small institutions
• - Program No. (21)
• Investment Club.

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The regulating and administrative environment

• The regulating and administrative environment
  is considered the backbone to any efficient
  production activity and the educational
  activities as any service activity in connection
  with the human factor that needs a flexible and
  effectiveness administrative system. The human
  resources is one of principals of this
  environment as it helps the facultys management
  to focus on the educational process, decrease the
  administrative work pressure and invest the time
  effectively.
• - Program No. (22)
• The program of developing the skills of the
  administrative staff that helps in the academic
  affairs.

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The evaluation of the graduates capabilities

• One of the important motivations in the tasking
  letter to put the strategic plan for the faculty
  of business administration is supplying the
  students after their graduation with the basic
  skills and efficiencies to be distinguished in
  their professions. The not only be able to
  compete on the local opportunities but also on
  the employing ones in the international market.
• - Program No. (2)
• The center of developing and measuring the
  skills of students and graduates.
  
• (2-B) The program of International Driving
  License.
  
• - Program No. (2)
• The center of developing and measuring the
  skills of students and graduates.
  
• (2-C) The local TOEFL program.
• - Program No. (2)
• The center of developing and measuring the
  skills of students and graduates.
  
• (2-d) The Tests Program GMAT and GRE.

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Admission and Understanding

• The desire of selecting from increased numbers
  who are willing to join to the faculty of
  business administration, King Saud University
  imposed using measuring and evaluation programs
  in order to measure the studying understanding
  especially in the mathematical and analyzing
  abilities as well as the individual mental
  capability. The following program aims to the
  selection process from the increased numbers who
  are willing to join to the faculty of business
  administration.
• - Program No. (2)
• The center of developing and measuring the
  skills of students and graduates.
  
• (2-E) The examination program for students
  admission.

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The Standard Universities

• It has been helped with the strategies of the
  international universities to identify their
  methods, strategic techniques and the general
  features of these strategies.
• It has been reviewed (21) strategies to the
  approved universities from the AACSB
  International, the specialized board in approving
  the faculties on business administration in the
  world.

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The Strategic plan for the Faculty of Business
AdministrationThe Work Team

- Dr. Hamad Bin Mhammed Al Sheikh
Head - Prof. Dr. Ahmad Bin Sal
im Al-Amry Member
- Prof. Dr. Abdulrahman Bin Yousef Al-Aaly
Member - Prof. Dr. Ahmad Ali Sulie
man
Member - Dr. Ayman Mohammed Hindy
Member
- Mr. Aleh Mabrouk Al-Eainy
Member
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participation in the discussions and revision
with the working team.Goodbye