

George is a Chartered Financial Planner, a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society and a Member of the Chartered Insurance Institute. As such he has close relationships with the Newcastle office’s Investment Management team. His work often revolves around major family life events which need some careful planning, such as retirement, changing job, getting an inheritance, wanting to make a gift and death. This includes helping with lifestyle financial planning, wealth management, retirement planning, inheritance tax planning and trusts. I hope this paper to inspire scholars to study the determinants of performance in the troubled Arab Middle East region.George is a Financial Planner in the Newcastle office where he advises a wide variety of clients. The location of this study brings up certain characteristics which contribute to explain its findings.
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Interestingly, this study shows that extensiveness does not influence performance, and even the age of an organization does not play a moderating role in this relationship. The results of a survey of 174 public and private organizations show that both slack and comprehensiveness are important predictors of performance and that the impact of slack and comprehensiveness on performance varies with the age of an organization. The interplay of slack and planning variables was also examined (moderating and mediating effects).

This study uses data from the Arab Middle East, namely, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to examine whether slack and planning (comprehensiveness of strategic decision making and extensiveness of strategic planning), which are of special importance at the moment in this recently established country, contribute towards or inhibit organizational performance. Slack, Planning and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Arab Middle East Slack, Planning and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Arab Middle East
