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Faculty of Business Management - Publications

Research Interests

Research interests of academic staff in the Faculty of Business Management (FoBM) include:

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Service Marketing
  • Digital Marketing
  • Business Intelligence
  • Employee Engagement 
  • Islamic Banking
  • Capital Structure and its Impact
  • Tourism
  • Social Media and its Impact

Recent presentations and publications by FoBM staff

Arshi, T. A., Ambrin, A., Rao, V., Morande, S., & Gul, K. (2022). A Machine Learning Assisted Study Exploring Hormonal Influences on Entrepreneurial Opportunity Behaviour. The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 31(3), 575–602.


Imen Khelil, Achraf Guidara & Hichem Khlif (2022) "Ethical Behavior of Firms and Foreign Direct Investments in African Settings: The Moderating Effect of Judicial Independence, Journal of African Business, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15228916.2022.2126591 ,


Arshi, T., Rao, V., Viswanath, S. and Begum, V. (2021), "Measuring innovation effectiveness: a SEM-based cross-lagged analysis", International Journal of Innovation Science, 13(4), 437-455.


Arshi, T.A., Rao, V., Islam, S. and Morande, S. (2021), "SECURE – a new business model framework for measuring start-up performance", Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 13(3), 459-485.


Arshi, T., Kamal, Q., Burns, P., Tewari, V., & Rao, V. (2020). Examining Perceived Entrepreneurial Stress: A Causal Interpretation through Cross-Lagged Panel Study. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 7(1), 1


Sawant, K., & Pise, A. (2021). The impact of High Performance Work Systems on Service Quality in the Telecom Industry in Oman, Polish Journal of Management Studies, 24(1), 337-352


Sabermajidi, N., Valaei, N., Balaji, M. S., & Goh, S. K. (2020). Measuring brand-related content in social media: a socialization theory perspective. Information Technology and People, 33(4), 1281-1302.

Board of Trustees

  • H.E. Rashad Ahmed Mohammed Omer Al Hinai, (Chairman)
  • Dr Aly Darwish Hagi Aly Al - Shamali (Member)
  • Dr. Saleh Salim Al Busaidy (Member)
    Director of Language Centre, Sultan Qaboos University
  • Dr. Abdulrazaq Juma Al Raisi (Member)
    Executive Vice President, Corporate Services & Business Development, Oman Air
  • Mr. Abdullah Al Abri (Member)
  • Dr. Maha Kobeil (Member)
    Dean of Majan University College (University College)
  • Mr. Saif Hilal Al Hosni (Member)
    Regional Manager SMSP - Public Sector - Microsoft
  • Professor Salam Salem Al Kindi (Member)
    Professor & Consultant Haematologist - Sultan Qaboos University
  • Prof. Salha Abdullah Issan
    Professor - Department of Educational Foundations & Admin, College of Education, SQU and Director - QA Office, SQU

Employment and Internship

The Career and Industry Engagement Office offers professional support to both current students at Majan and our alumni. The aim is to help students and alumni by improving their employability, supporting them in developing their skills, and improving their CVs. It also supports them in searching for jobs and finding and promoting internship opportunities.

Career and Industry Engagement Office Activities:

Majan believes that its students should be networking with potential employers. To support this the Career and Industry Engagement Office conducts the following activities and services:

Employer seminar and presentation

The Office invites companies and organisations to Majan to talk to students about their companies. Workshops are conducted regularly that help improve students’ employability, including:

  • How to create a professional CV,
  • How to prepare for an interview,
  • Career planning,
  • Time management,
  • Career opportunities in Oman,
  • Workshops on career development.
  • Campus placement:

Campus placement:

The Career and Industry Engagement Office has initiated a unique approach that aims to match organisations’ recruitment requirements with students’ qualifications and skills.

Campus placement events give organisations an opportunity to interact with students who are about to graduate, to interview them and possibly select them as graduate trainees or summer interns.

 

Faculty of English Language Studies - Publications

Research Interests

Research interests of academic staff in the Faculty of English Language Studies (FoELS) include:

  • Genre analysis
  • Paragraphing practice
  • Writing pedagogy
  • Discourse analysis
  • Experiential learning 
  • Language learning strategies
  • Learner autonomy 
  • Teaching methodologies
  • Second language acquisition
  • Teaching and Testing
  • Second language dynamic assessment 
  • Interlanguage pragmatics
  • Learning styles
  • Language and literature 
  • Critical pedagogy in TESOL
  • Classroom discourse  
  • Classroom ethnography

Recent presentations and publications by FoELS staff

Rassaei, E., & Ravand, H. (2023). Immediate versus delayed prompts, field dependence and independence cognitive style and L2 development. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching.


Rassaei E (2023) Editorial: Incorporating technology for teaching vocabulary to second language learners. Front. Psychol. 13:1081901. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1081901


Rassaei (2022). The effect of recasts on L2 Grammar: A meta-analysis. The Language Learning Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2022.2097298


Rassaei, E. (2022). Implementing Mobile-mediated Dynamic Assessment for Teaching Request forms to EFL Learners, Computer Assisted Language Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2021.1912105


Kaveh, A. Rassaei, E. (2022). The Effects of Mobile-mediated vs. Face-to-face Dynamic Assessment on EFL Learners Writing Fluency and Strategy Awareness: A Sociocultural Perspective. Language and Sociocultural Theory.  https://doi.org/10.1558/lst.20288


Aeen, J. B., Rassaei, E., Riasati, M. J., & Zamanian, M. (2022). EFL Learners' Modified Output and their Perceptions of Recast during Face-to-Face, Audio-based and Video-based Synchronous Mobile-mediated Communication. TESL-EJ, 25(4). 


Rassaei, E. (2021). Effects of dynamic and non-dynamic corrective feedback on EFL writing accuracy during dyadic and small group interactions. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching59(2), 233-265.Bagheri, M. &


Rassaei, E. (2021). The Effects of Two Forms of Written Corrective Feedback and Ambiguity Tolerance on EFL Learners’ Writing Accuracy, English Teaching & Learning, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42321-021-00082-6


Rassaei, E. (2020). Effects of Mobile-mediated Dynamic and Non-dynamic Glosses on L2 Vocabulary Learning: A Sociocultural Perspective, Modern Language Journal, 104 (1), 284-303. 


Rassaei, E. (2020). The Separate and Combined Effects of Recasts and Textual Enhancement as Two Focus on Form Techniques on L2 Development, System, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2019.102193  


Bagheri, M. & Rassaei, E. (2021). The Effects of Two Forms of Written Corrective Feedback and Ambiguity Tolerance on EFL Learners’ Writing Accuracy, English Teaching & Learning, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42321-021-00082-6


Azizi, M., Rassaei, E., Bagheri, M. (2021). Iranian EFL Learners’ Understanding of Ubiquitous Learning: Examining Factors Affecting L2 Learner’s Classroom Achievement Using Structural Equation Modeling. International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 9(36), 77-90.


Boggu, A., (2021). Building Upon the Past, Envisioning the Future. In: 20th Oman International ELT Conference. [online] Muscat: Sultan Qaboos University Press, pp.130-143.


Rassaei, E. (2020). Effects of Mobile-mediated Dynamic and Non-dynamic Glosses on L2 Vocabulary Learning: A Sociocultural Perspective, Modern Language Journal, 104 (1), 284-303.


Rassaei, E. (2020). The Separate and Combined Effects of Recasts and Textual Enhancement as Two Focus on Form Techniques on L2 Development, System, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2019.10219


Boggu, A. (2020) ‘The potential of Kolb’s experiential learning cycle on long term knowledge retention’, 20th Oman International ELT Conference, Sultan Qaboos University, 14-15 October.

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