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in Tahir Suliman. This report provides an overview of these articles. And, it is followed by a description explaining human resource management related similarities and differences in the UAE and The KSA. Subsequent to that, concerning human resource management related issues, what they can learn from their individual experiences over their respective HR policies and practices, is also discussed. In the end, some of the basic managerial challenges that could be faced by HR manager, are also made part of this report. Overview of the articles This article “Stereotyping of citizens in an expatriate-dominated labor market: implications for workforce localization policy,” is fundamentally based on the impacts of Emiratisation over the local and foreign workers living in the United Arab Emirates. This article first focus on the public sector then it moves towards private sector employment. Some 40 years ago, the arrival of oil exploration pushed the respective governments of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to adopt a liberal human resource policy towards the foreign workers. The UAE Government adopted the same and since then and till now it avoids intervening in human resource policies of both public and private sector. The article continues and says that soon after this liberal foreign workers policy, the UAE government initiated the policy of Emiratisation, which requires hiring more nationals than the foreign workers. Hafez (2009) contends that still only 0.43 percent (or 13,000 employees), which is 3 million private sector work force, represents the nationals. At the same time, TANMIA (2006) reports that in 2005, more than 35,000 UAE citizens were unemployed. In the public sector side, the UAE government has a policy to recruit nationals. As a result, public employment reached a saturation point (Government of the UAE,2007). Subsequently, the article highlight some of features of private sector where, the author carried out a survey over the aggregate impacts of Emiratisation, and its impacts over work environment and aggregate organizational and individual performance. The survey highlights that diverse culture inside organizations has some negative impacts over the organizational and individual performance as most the employees prefer to have stronger social group identification over the work or organizational groups. Additionally, findings from the survey reveal that most of the respondents term Emiratisation as ineffective. Majority of the respondents contend that except promoting a quota system and at the same time not working over the skill development of locals, Emiratisation would not be able to achieve its ultimate objectives. Furthermore, the findings suggest that most of the private sector employers resist quota system and resort to the use of ghost working creating paper employment. In the end, the author is of the view that due to this huge presence of expatriates, the local people have become foreign in their own country.