The Academic Committee
- Sphere of competence: Studying and discussing issues concerning managerial thinking and development and ensuring academic communication between experts and those interested in management.
- Responsibilities: Preparing and implementing the Association's activities such as: symposiums, conferences, lectures and meetings. These activities are, in fact, chosen from the members' points of view with special care to diversify the subjects so as to cover the different areas of management and ensure the geographic spread by carrying out these activities in different managerial regions in the Kingdom.

The activities organized by the committee are divided into:
· Annual meetings that handle and deal with a variety of issues from different angles through specialized research and papers.
· Periodical meetings which handle specific aspect of certain subjects.
The academic committee also follows regional and international meetings, symposiums and conferences and benefit from the subject discussed.

Training and consultation committee
- Sphere of competence: Developing the training and consultation profession and meeting the needs of service requirements of different parties in these two areas through coordination with the specialized and experienced members.
- Responsibilities:
· Verification of managerial, training and consultation services
· Coordinating the managerial, training and consultation providers' benefit from the experience of the committee's members
· Building a database for the managerial, training and consultation providers
· Organizing activities regarding developing awareness of training and consultation services and their direct positive effect on the organizations activities  
· Investigating problems and difficulties which limit the start and effect of training and consultation        
· Provision of training and consultation services directly or indirectly in coordination with some of the providers of these services.
· Studying the service market need for training and consultation

Information and Public Relations Committee
Sphere of competence   
· Highlighting in the media the Association's role in serving management in the Kingdom, linking the Association with the public through media channels and ensuring the best use of these channel to spread the managerial thinking, awareness and culture in addition to forming public opinion that supports the Association's role, goals and activities.
- Responsibilities:
· Providing the media with announcements, news and all the information materials about the Association, its activities and programs.
· Publishing news letters, guides, and leaflets about the Association.
· Publishing magazines and periodicals specialized in management
· Preparation for meeting and night gatherings held by the Association and providing all their needs and requirements.
· Continuous coordination with the groups and organizations that influence the formation of the public opinion in order to develop a positive concept about the Association and its role.
· Follow-up and developing the Association's website on the Internet
· Representing the Association in the social, national and cultural events and activities.

 Membership and Marketing Committee
- Area of competence: Increasing the number of the Association's membership by attracting more members and maintaining the present membership through participating in activating the membership system and developing its services.
- Responsibilities:
· Conducting development and follow-up of membership system and services
· Promoting the membership system via the appropriate channels
· Follow-up and  Development of membership fees system and facilitating fees payment.
· Follow - up and activating membership fees process.
· Constructing and managing a membership database and appropriately highlighting in the media the role of active members in serving the goals of the Association.
· Continuous communication with the members via appropriate means and methods
· Marketing all of the Association's services and products

Planning and Development Committee
- Sphere of competence: Preparing the internal work environment to enable the Association to carry out its roles effectively and in a perfect way in accordance with the organizational and procedural regulations.
- Responsibilities:
· Setting up the Association's organizational structure  
· Preparing and developing the Association's internal work systems and regulations.
· Preparing and developing guidebooks and related forms of the Association's working procedures.
· Supervising the preparation and drawing up of contracts in which the Association is one of the parties.

Women Committee
Considering the woman's effective role in all aspects, the Board of Directors took the initiative in 1422 H to establish a Women Committee to follow up the members affairs and study their different needs for services and activities that the Association can provide.
Sphere of competence:
· Creation of appropriate channels through which the Saudi woman can effectively participate in the Association's activities and which facilitate the way women can benefit from the Association's different activities and program.
- Responsibilities:As the women committee is an organizational branch of the Association dedicated to serve the women's sector, its scope of responsibilities broadens to accommodate all the Association's aforementioned activities especially the following:
· Organizing academic activities directed toward the women's sector.
· Preparation of plans and training activities and supervising the implementation thereof with the aim of raising women workforce efficiency.
· Coordination of all female members' participation in the Association's publications.
· Attracting new female members and ensuring women's contribution to develop the Association's resources.
· Publicizing the Association's activities

It is possible for the committee to form subcommittees from its members or the Association members. Each subcommittee will be   responsible for the supervision of certain activities such as training, information and public relations, etc. 

                                                                  Association membership                                                              

Like all academic, professional and other societies, the main base and the pivot on which the different activities and work programs of the Saudi Management Association revolve is its members. Regulations for membership have been sanctioned on the basis of reduction of fees with the increase in membership time as follows:

1 year   SR200,                2 years   SR300,             3 years        SR400

The Association has three different types of membership:

- Full membership
Full members have academic degrees or their equivalent in one the aspects of management. They differ from other types of member in that they have the right to vote in the general assembly and to run for the membership or chairmanship of the Board of Directors.

Associate membership
This type of membership includes those who work and are interested in the different fields of management but have no academic qualifications in addition to those who would like to be members although they do not live in the Kingdom. These members can attend the general assembly and its committees' sessions and take part in discussions but do not have the right to vote.

Students' membership
Every university student whose studies are in the field of the Association's specialization has the right to have this type of membership. Students are charged membership fee which is 50% of the normal fees.

Honorary membership
Granted in accordance with a set of criteria to those who have contributed to the achievement of the Association's goals and increasing the effectiveness of its role through their different outstanding services whether these services are moral or otherwise.

It can also be given to prominent statesmen, scientists and others who have been honored before for their achievements and great deeds whether this honor bestowed on them was local, regional or international.

Membership Privileges
On the basis of the primary motives that led to the idea of the establishment of the Saudi Management Association in order to enable those specialized and interested in managerial sciences and their applications to exchange ideas and experience with the aim of developing the management profession and stand up to the obstacles and challenges it may face. The Association member can always be kept informed of the current managerial events and the latest academic and practical news. Consequently the Association member can contribute to the evaluation of the current reality of the local management and participate in formulation of its future development and work mechanism.

The personal benefits an Association member can have are as follows:
· To make use of the academic booklets, periodicals and magazines specialized in management.
· Participating in different activities and events such as symposiums, meetings, evenings, tours, training programs …etc.
· Meeting experts and specialists in the area of management and benefiting from the way they handle managerial cases and problems in addition to conversing and exchanging ideas with them.