Introduction

Our focus in this book is communication within the workplaces of the countries that form the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, with particular reference to managers. Originally, and still popularly, termed the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), its members include all the Arab states of the Persian Gulf with the exception of Iraq. The GCC was established in Abu Dhabi in 1981, and it consists of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. It was set up to foster political, economic, military, scientific, cultural, legislative, and monetary links between its members. The member countries rank among those with the highest gross domestic products (GDPs) in the world and represent some of ...

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