Impact of Privatization on Health Sector in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has announced the launch of its health projects for privatization within the framework of the economic transformation adopted by the government. The objectives of the research are to examine the impact of privatization on the health sector in terms of government expenditure, beneficiary satisfaction, improve management, and improvement of the working environment of health practitioners. In this study, the descriptive quantitative approach was used, primary data collected by distribute questionnaire to 200 respondents. The data were analyzed by means of several statistical methods and data tests, which include: descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, factor analysis, and reliability and regression analysis using the SPSS program. This study concluded that privatization has a positive impact on dependent variables (government expenditure, beneficiary satisfaction, management improvement, and improvement of the working environment of health practitioners). Based on the results of the study, a set of recommendations were presented. Jordanian Cement Company by Jresat (2012). The study investigates the impact of privatization on the performance of company's human resources in terms of employees' salaries and incentives increment and employees' efficiency. The dependent variable is the company's human resources' performance and the independent variable is the privatization of the company. The researcher hypothesizes that privatization affects the efficiency of the employees positively and contributes into increasing their salaries and incentives. Therefore, in order to test those hypotheses, the researcher utilizes the analytical descriptive method as well as the practical one in which a questionnaire that designs by him distributes to 214 employees of the cement company in order to collect the required data. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire testes before being distribute utilizing Cronbach Alpha measurement. The reliability value was 90% which implied that the questionnaire has high reliability and acceptable to be applied. The collect data was analyzed utilizing different statistical methods including percentages and frequencies, and the ordinary least square regression analysis. The obtain results indicate that there is neutral impact of privatization on the employees' performance as well as their salaries in the company. Moreover, the results also indicate that there are no statistical differences between the impacts of privatization on the performance of employees attributed to the demographic variables. Finally, the researcher recommends the subsequent researchers to investigate this impact deeply by including the employees' years of experience as an additional variable in their future studies. (2003) study. In this study, the researcher aims to investigate the attitudes of Saudi undergraduate college students toward the expect effects of privatization on the Saudi privatized SOEs' employment system. The researcher utilizes analytical descriptive method in order to satisfy the study objectives through which he distributes survey questionnaire in to 672 Saudi undergraduate college students. He concludes that there is a large of varied attitudes of respondents towards privatization effects. Large percentage of the sample prefer working under close supervision of Saudi management, gaining a salary that is associated with their productivity, being promoted based on performance rather than seniority and being adhered to prescribed method in implementing job tasks which represent the main aspects of privatization. However, another large percentage of the study dislike the idea of putting forth more effort to meet management's plans and of compromising job security in return of high salary. Moreover, the researcher discovers that while the majority of respondents believe that the privatization of state-owned enterprises is better for the local economy, their support for privatization is qualified by their determination or desire not to adversely affect their own interests.