Emaar Properties is a real estate development company based in the United Arab Emirates. The Chairman of Emaar Properties is Mohamed Ali Alabbar (Emaar, 2010). Hussain Al Qemzi is the Vice Chairman (Emaar, 2010). Below them are the Board of Directors, consisting of nine people (Management, 2014). The Head of Internal Audit and the Group Chief Executive Officer stem from the Board of Directors, and the Corporate Office under the Group Chief Executive Officer contains three people (Management, 2014). Below that are seven divisions: Real Estate, International, Investment Holding, Malls Group, Hospitality Group, Finance, and Industries and Investments (Management, 2014). Several of those divisions have as many as nine subdivisions in them, making the hierarchy of management even larger (Management, 2014). However, the size of the company essentially demands a lot of breakdown because it is not possible for one person to run all of those subdivided companies efficiently if he has to focus on all of the day-to-day operations.
However, Emaar Properties must be careful not to get too many steps on their management diagram. The more people are in line from top to bottom, the more opportunity there is a for a problem to occur. At this point, a person who works in a subdivision would have that leader, the division leader, someone at the corporate office, and someone on the Board of Directors to go through before he or she could ever even get to the Vice Chairman. While it may not be necessary for a "standard" worker to get in touch with the Chairman of the company very often, doing so would be difficult and complex. That is a significant issue to consider, because it stops the company from being friendly in the sense of having an "open-door" policy for its workers.
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