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    Exploring the issues and new insights of global branding and strategic corporate social responsibility (csr): a case of Pakistani organizations
    (Academic Journals, 2012) Rana Zamin Abbas; Hasan Sohaib Murad; Mazhar Abbas Khan; Abdul Ghaffar Ghaffari; Abdul Rafay
    The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the concept of global branding, what it stands for being socially responsible, and what its link with leverage is. It also highlights the range of social responsibility issues with reference to Pakistani brands and explores the relevant issues and deep insights from strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature and global branding literature in the context of Pakistani organizations. It also suggests future implications for theorists, practitioners and academicians with reference to effective strategic CSR and global branding. This paper embarks on the intellectual journey with the concept of CSR and global branding in local context of Pakistan, while reviewing the relevant literature and addressing the issue of complexity in Pakistani context. This study gives insights about the issue of complexity at the time of strategically integrating CSR into global band and sorts out three strands of complexity namely, 1) issue complexity, 2) organizational complexity, and 3) communication complexity in the context of Pakistan. The limitation of this paper is due to the limited academic literature, giving insights about how global organizations in corporate CSR initiatives for the development of brands, and insights dealing with the issues needed to be taken into account at the time of integrating into branding strategies. This paper gives fresh enquiry to the issue complexity, organizational complexity and communication complexity with reference to global brands and CSR activities in the context of Pakistan which has been applied so far.
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    Knowledge management and inter civilization dialogue: a peaceful solution to global financial crisis
    (2011) Rana Zamin Abbas; Abdul Ghaffar Ghaffari
    On the ground of relevant literature review the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate knowledge as power, KM, KM strategies & similarities between organization and civilizations. To highlight knowledge Management at organizational level (micro level) as well as at civilizational level (macro level) that is knowledge essence is same at both levels but form at the macro level will be in the form of dialogue among civilization. To identify the root cause of international financial crisis. To highlight the importance of intercivilization dialogue as a km strategy through effective knowledge management as a possible and peaceful solution.To suggest the KM as a strategy to combat global financial crisis and to highlight the importance of KM for inter and intracivilization dialogue, understanding and harmony to get rid of international financial crisis to achieve the global peace. To demonstrate knowledge as power, KM, KM strategies & similarities between organization and civilizations. To highlight knowledge Management at organizational level (micro level) as well as at civilizational level (macro level) that is knowledge essence is same at both levels but form at the macro level will be in the form of dialogue among civilization. To identify the root cause of international financial crisis. To highlight the importance of intercivilization dialogue as a km strategy through effective knowledge management as a possible and peaceful solution. To suggest the KM as a strategy to combat global financial crisis and to highlight the importance of KM for inter and intracivilization dialogue, understanding and harmony to get rid of international financial crisis to achieve the global peace. Starting with the ideas of knowledge management thinkers, sources of knowledge management are highlighted with focus on KM strategies. After discussing knowledge portfolio at organizational level paper highlights civilizational conflicts as the real cause of global financial crises. Finally demonstrates the idea of dialogue among civilizations and idea of league of civilizations to overcome the global financial crises from the arguments given by political leaders as well as great thinkers of civilizations studies. This study can be helpful for practitioners in refining their way of thinking about Knowledge Management and valuable organizational resources. It will provide a new framework for deep understanding of strategic concepts and how can we achieve excellent results from knowledge management in the organizational world. On one hand this research provides practical insights to the corporate executives at the time of KM initiative, in order to deal with the challenges facing in global financial crisis. On other hand it provides the deeper insights to the world leaders by providing peaceful solutions of global financial crises with inter civilizations dialogue and league of civilizations.
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    Measuring the learning organization�s construct in Pakistan: a case of public sector educational institutes
    (European Journal of Social Sciences, 2011) Rana Zamin Abbas; Hasan Sohaib Murad; Abdul Ghaffar Ghaffari; Ahmed F. Siddiqi; Zulfqar Ahmad; Zia Ur Rehman; Muhammad Ashraf
    Purpose: This paper focuses upon assessing the learning levels of Pakistani organizations1 particularly on those aspects which are prominent and verifiable in Pakistani context. Design/Methodology/Approach: The paper in hand first reviews all the relevant literature for distilling the main features of learning organization’s construct which are used in the questionnaire. The research used Marsick & Watkins, (2003) questionnaire as an instrument. Research findings: Factor analysis after survey filters five dimensions of the construct learning organization. namely; learning climate, employees’ participation, systematic employee development, leadership, and incentives of most positive kinds (rewards), for learning which are found in different proportions in public sector organizations.