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Brief communication: phronesis knowledge as enabler of intuitive decision making
(Knowledge Organization, 2015) Sami Ullah Bajwa; Naveda Kitchlew; Khuram Shahzad; Khaliq Ur Rehman
Drawing on Nonaka and colleagues’ recent concept of phronesis, as a third type of knowledge that is connoted with practical wisdom, the present article proposes that intuitive decision making ability propels with phronesis. Furthermore, it proposes that cognitive adaptability—as the ability to quickly make sense of changing and complex situations – along with personality, as consistent patterns of behaviors based on social learning, are antecedents of phronesis. The article furnishes a conceptual frame based on contemporary literature on intuition, phronesis, cognitive adaptability, situated cognition, metacognition, and social learning theory of personality.
A hidden threat: work stress among business managers in Pakistan
(Journal of Economics and Management, 2013) Khuram Shahzad; Sarwar Azhar; Farhan Ahmed
This paper aimed to identify the significant sources and level of work stress experienced by the frontline, middle, and senior level business managers in Pakistan. Six factors namely role ambiguity, role conflict, quantitative role overload, qualitative role overload, career development, and responsibility for others were used as major antecedents of work stress in this study. Study used quantitative strategy and cross-sectional survey method for data collection from 456 respondents belonging to front line, middle, and senior managerial positions from 30 randomly selected organizations operating in private sector of Pakistan. Results revealed that 81% of the respondents have been exposed to moderate level of work stress. Responsibility for others and concern for career development were viewed as factors causing relatively greater amount of stress at workplace. Role ambiguity and role conflict were viewed as factor causing relatively least amount of work stress among respondents. Significant differences between different demographic groups for most of the stressors were also found. Since no study identifying sources and level of work stress in Pakistan has been conducted so far, importance of this study lies in highlighting the exact antecedents of work stress and amount of stress caused by them in Pakistan.
Incubating women entrepreneurship: measuring effectiveness of women business incubator in Pakistan
(2012) Khuram Shahzad
Purpose Business incubation is one of the implementation tools of government‟s strategy, for facilitating women entrepreneurship development in Pakistan. Very few of the businesssupport initiatives in Pakistan have translated into accrual of genuine benefits for target beneficiaries. That being so, purpose of this study is to measure importance and effectiveness of incubation related facilities/services for women entrepreneurs in Pakistan from the perspective of its primary beneficiaries (tenants) and draw implications for future women specific incubation programs. Methodology Study was carried out by using survey method. Tenants from women specific incubator participated in this survey. Self-administered questionnaire measuring importance and effectiveness of 34 incubation related facilities/services was incorporated in this study. Findings Results revealed that tenants generally perceive all the investigated incubation related facilities/services very important for the success of their businesses. In general, tenants have shown their agreement with incubator‟s ability to deliver all the facilities/services effectively. However, difference in perceived importance and perceived effectiveness for majority of the incubator‟s facilities/services has been found. Originality There is no research study conducted, whatsoever, on incubation and/or its effectivenessin women entrepreneurship development in Pakistan. In an attempt to fill this gape, this study provides an empirical evidence of perceived value and effectiveness of incubation related services for its tenants. The results of study have also been interpreted in the light of similar prior empirical studies on measuring effectiveness through client‟s satisfaction. In this sense, this study also intends to discuss, somehow, the world wide scope of incubation model.
Integrating principles of care, compassion and justice in organizations: exploring dynamic nature of organizational justice
(Journal of Human Values, 2014) Khuram Shahzad; Hasan Sohaib Murad; Naveda Kitchlew; Shahid A. Zia
This article aims to respond to the long-lived perceived incompatibility between care and compassion and justice in organizational literature. It is argued that principles of care and compassion and principles of justice are compatible with each other and can be integrated in organizations in such a way that both will supplement each other. Previous researches tend to view concepts of care and compassion and justice either as competing or inheriting some fundamental trade-offs. This article argues that the highlighted incompatibility between care and compassion and justice is mainly due to the limited understanding about the nature of organizational justice. Care and compassion carry elements of subjectivity and are dynamic in nature, whereas literature on organizational justice has described justice as an objective, static and linear construct due to which an incompatibility between these two very important phenomena is prevailing. This incompatibility can be removed by changing the way of looking at organizational justice and by exploring its dynamic nature.
Intelligent conference room
(University of Management and Technology, 2015) Bilal Hussain Awan; Khuram Shahzad; Zulkiful
The Project Intelligent Conference Room mainly emphasizes on efficient use of energy resources and wireless communication for PLC by using different automation functions. In this controller based design, different types of sensors are used to make the room automatic and intelligent. The arrival of a first person is detected at the door of the room and small light is turned on automatically. Individual lights are controlled with respect to persons sitting on their respective chairs. Moreover AC or heater is turned on or off if temperature exceeds or decreases from specific limits. The project also involves a display outside, for continuously updating the number of people present inside the room, to avoid congestion. IR sensors are used for detection of objects to make the project more cost effective
Performance evaluation of routing protocols in MANET
(UMT Lahore, 2012-04-24) Khuram Shahzad; Sarfraz Ahmed; Komail Abbas
In our project we have done simulation for performance evaluation of routing protocols, Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV), in order to generate a self configurable network. For simulation we used NS2 simulator. In our project we calculate throughput of entire network, end to end delay and packet delivery ratio. Our network consists of 50 random nodes which are used AODV and DSDV routing protocols. The performance have been evaluating by varying some parameters such as, we generate random traffic for 10, 30 and 50 nodes, and varying pause time at different interval. From simulation we get values from trace files and plot graphs, which shows proves that AODV gives better performance than DSDV.
Personality and gender as predictors of academic choices: a comparative study of business and non-business students
(International Journal of Management & Organizational Studies, 2013) Khuram Shahzad; Farhan Ahmed; Abdul Ghaffar
The impact of personal factors on academic and professional preferences has been the topic of a number of researches. But there is a dearth of studies on comparative analysis of such traits with reference to academic choices of business and non-business students. This study aims to identify if gender and personality explain difference in business and non-business students’ academic programs choices. 254 undergraduate students from schools of business and economics (business) and schools of engineering and technology (non-business) responded to this survey. Results revealed the significant impact of big five personality traits on students’ selection of business or non-business degree programs. Students from business major scored high for extroversion and emotional stability, but they scored low on agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness. The difference in business and non-business academic preferences in terms of gender was also found significant
Role of incubation in women entrepreneurship development in Pakistan
Khuram Shahzad; Qamar Ali; Sami Ullah Bajwa; Shahid A. Zia
Business incubation is one of the implementation tools of government’s strategy for facilitating women entrepreneurship development in Pakistan. Purpose of this study was to measure the importance and effectiveness of incubation services for women entrepreneurs in Pakistan. Study was carried out by using survey method. Tenants from a women specific incubator participated in this survey. Self-administered questionnaire measuring the importance and effectiveness of 34 incubation services was incorporated in this study. Results revealed that tenants perceived all the investigated incubation services very important for the success of their businesses. However, difference in perceived importance and perceived effectiveness, for majority of the incubation services, has been found.
Shifts in themes of knowledge management field towards dynamic fractal organizations
(Science International, 2015) Sami Ullah Bajwa; Naveda Kitchlew; Shrafat Ali Sair; Khuram Shahzad
Recently, (Ikujiro Nonaka, Kodama, Hirose, & Kohlbacher, 2013) have proposed a new paradigm to look at organizations. Drawing on the fractal theory of natural sciences, the authors proposed that organizations are made up of dynamic fractals that are enabled by dynamic ba’s, organizational synthesizing capability and leader’s phronesis. Furthermore, Dynamic Fractal Organizations facilitates dynamic synthesis of knowledge exploitation and exploration, which is essential for becoming sustainably innovative and hence getting sustainable competitive advantage in the knowledge economy. The present article undertakes review of the literature on the theme of exploration and exploitation and prposes that shifts in (1) ontology of knowledge, (2) operational orientation of exploration and exploitation, and (3) distinct KM systems to holistic design of organization, have dovetailed the conception of dynamic fractal organization. The proposed dynamic fractal organizational design has opened foray of scholarly debate by knowledge researchers in the years to come. The current paper has made an initial attempt in this regard.
Social capital and knowledge sharing as determinants of academic performance
(3rd International Conference on Business Management (ICoBM), UMT, Lahore, Pakistan, 2013) Haris Aslam; Khuram Shahzad; Aly Raza Syed; Asher Ramish
Aslam, H. (2013)."SOCIAL CAPITAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING AS DETERMINANTS OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE." Paper presented at 3rd International Conference on Business Management (ICoBM), UMT, Lahore, Pakistan.
Sources & Level of Work Stress
(UMT.Lahore, 2011) Khuram Shahzad
This thesis aims to provide an insight of the sources and level of work stress present in the business organizations operating in Lahore, a metropolitan city of Pakistan. Differences among demographic groups in work stress experiences are also investigated. Individuals from management positions participated in this study. Data is collected from private sector organizations by using survey method. Six factors namely role ambiguity, role conflict, quantitative role overload, qualitative role overload, career development, and responsibility for others as identified by literature as potential sources of work stress are taken for this study. Gender, age, experience, and education are taken as demographic variables to identify the differences among individuals in level and sources of works stress. All the variables in instrument score high on reliability tests. Results reveal that 87% of the employees have experienced moderate to high level of work stress because of the mentioned stressors. In general, all the factors used in this study cause employees above average level of work stress. However, events related to responsibility for others and career development, are found as the most stressful factors. Whereas role ambiguity is found to cause the least amount of work stress. Significant differences in level of work stress against different sources of work stress are also found across gender, length of experience, and age.
Sources & level of work stress: study of businesses in Lahore
(UMT.Lahore, 2011) Khuram Shahzad
This thesis aims to provide an insight of the sources and level of work stress present in the business organizations operating in Lahore, a metropolitan city of Pakistan. Differences among demographic groups in work stress experiences are also investigated. Individuals from management positions participated in this study. Data is collected from private sector organizations by using survey method. Six factors namely role ambiguity, role conflict, quantitative role overload, qualitative role overload, career development, and responsibility for others as identified by literature as potential sources of work stress are taken for this study. Gender, age, experience, and education are taken as demographic variables to identify the differences among individuals in level and sources of works stress. All the variables in instrument score high on reliability tests. Results reveed that 87% of the employees have experienced moderate to high level of work stress because of the mentioned stressors. In general, all the factors used in this study cause employees above average level of work stress. However, events related to responsibility for others and career development, are found as the most stressful factors. Whereas role ambiguity is found to cause the least amount of work stress. Significant differences in level of work stress against different sources of work stress are also found across gender, length of experience, and age.
Sources & level of work stress: Study of businesses in Lahore
(University of Management and Technology, 2011) Khuram Shahzad
This thesis aims to provide an insight of the sources and level of work stress present in the business organizations operating in Lahore, a metropolitan city of Pakistan. Differences among demographic groups in work stress experiences are also investigated. Individuals from management positions participated in this study. Data is collected from private sector organizations by using survey method. Six factors namely role ambiguity, role conflict, quantitative role overload, qualitative role overload, career development, and responsibility for othersas identified by literature as potential sources of work stress are taken for this study. Gender, age, experience, and education are taken as demographic variables to identify the differences among individuals in level and sources of works stress. All the variables in instrument score high on reliability tests. Results reveal that 87% of the employees have experienced moderate to high level of work stress because of the mentioned stressors. In general, all the factors used in this study cause employees above average level of work stress. However, events related to responsibility for others and career development, are found as the most stressful factors. Whereas role ambiguity is found to cause the least amount of work stress. Significant differences in level of work stress against different sources of work stress are also found across gender, length of experience, and age.
Supportive learning environment: a comparison between private and public sector organizations of Pakistan
(2011) Qamar Ali; Sami Ullah Bajwa; Khuram Shahzad
The purpose of this paper is to determine the most important factors influencing supportive learning environment in public and private sector organizations on the one hand and to compare the levels of supportive learning environment between private and public sectors, on the other. Since, supportive learning environment is a building block of learning organization, the study, in other words, intends to compare the levels of learning in both sectors. Variables are factor analysed to carry out the most important ones and the sum of the Means of all the variable is taken as total score of supportive learning environment and is compared mutually. Results of the study suggest that the important variables of supportive learning environment for both types of organizations are same—psychological safety and time for reflection— but there is a considerable disparity between the total scores gained by two organizations, with private organization at higher side. It can be derived, then, that the extent of supportive learning environment is greater in private organizations than public ones.
Vision or psychic prison
(2012) Khuram Shahzad
Psychic prison-Plato’s cave metaphor introduced a compelling concept that how organizations can get trapped by their favored ways of thinking and thus fail to adapt to the environmental changes and demands. This metaphor provides organizations with a subjective clue that how organizations can be trapped in their favored ways of thinking and mental models which ultimately lead them to a state of psychic prison. However, little is known about the antecedent(s) which might lead organizations to this psychic prison mentality. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the factor(s) which objectively contribute toward this psychic prison mentality. This paper holds the view that despite its initial success and utility, “organization’s vision” after a certain period of time creates an internal environment which limits organization to see outside of the vision’s boundaries and thus leads organization toward a state where organization becomes psychic prison of its vision.

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