Browsing by Author "Muhammad Razzaq Athar"

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    Effect of corporate alienation on managerial decision making
    (2013) Rana Zamin Abbas; Muhammad Rizwan Junaid; Muhammad Razzaq Athar; Zulfqar Ahmad
    This study revolves around the core process of decision making in an organization keeping on board the middle management tier which is involved mostly in decision making. In every passing day more and more mangers are coming across different personal problems; and even with strong academic qualifications and flair towards offering their best they are finding no place for themselves in this busy and dynamic corporate world. Organizational structure and design are the main causes that make their options miserable and leave no place to run and room to hide. They lose happiness, completeness and confidence and they hit back the society as an alien soul without any defined objective and definite purpose. The causes are studied here in the perspective of a continuous process of decision making which is the most important of all tasks a manager performs.
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    Intellectual death
    (Centre for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2012) Muhammad Rizwan Junaid; Tahseen Mahmood Aslam; Muhammad Razzaq Athar; Nazir Ahmad Malik; Rana Zamin Abbas
    This paper encompasses and enfolds the decay and gradual decline in mental abilities of Managers who are busy in serving Organizations round the globe. It is being felt that companies are mobilizing their Human Resources in such a manner that this resource seems busy in generating hefty profits for them, however, the paid cost is heavy enough to ignore and whole society is slowly but persistently marching towards a dead end. This dead end leads to their personal failure in society, family, friends, social circles and finally in the organizations as well, by every passing day, we are running faster than before in the very direction of being mechanical. The output is justifying their existence, their worth is calculated in terms of financial gains and their presence is gauged through quantifiable meters. It is not thought that they are human beings, they have a personality, they are thinking being and they cannot rather must not be treated as machines. Unfortunately, it is what we are and the lasting, atrocious and terrible effect of this intellectual transition is hunting their inner selves. The sole purpose of this paper is to highlight those areas that provide ‗Food of thought‘ to an individual acting in his/her capacity as Manager in an organization. The missing links and after effects of these missing, We need to think it over and over again as what is being missed cannot be gained back and what is being gained cannot be saved for ever. The loss is much more than the profits.
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    Mirror up to benevolent paternalistic leadership (BPL)
    (2013) Rana Zamin Abbas; Hasan Sohaib Murad; Ahmed F. Siddiqui; Muhammad Razzaq Athar
    The paper aims to address the fundamental questions: What is BPL? Why is the Quest for BPL? And how BPL can bring about positive change? ñ For this purpose, the paper reviews different definitions and perspectives of Benevolent Paternalistic Leadership (BPL) along with antecedents and outcomes to assess the current state of BPL literature. After reviewing current state of BPL literature, paper explores the quest for Benevolent Paternalistic Leadership along with the challenges faced by BPL at organizational as well as civilizational levels. To address how BPL can bring about positive change, it explores the ideas of political leaders, the role of courage and insights from the Holy Qurían and Sunnah. The paper finally emphasizes the need to incorporate these rich ideas into BPL literature. Using sources of BPL literature, sources of organizational literature, sources of civilizational literature specifically the ideas of political leaders, along with the sources of Quríanic literature and authentic Ahadith, this paper firstly explores the relevant literature of BPL and explores the challenges of BPL at different levels both at organizational and civilizational. Secondly, it highlights the ideas given by political leaders, their courage and Islamic guidance for setting the future directions for the management practice. World of management is facing multi-faceted crisis with reference to leadership. Signs of this crisis are clear indicators of something missing which needs to be filled to overcome this multi-faceted crisis. This study comes at a time of stock-taking at organizational and civilizational levels with reference to BPL. It addresses a timely need of the importance of BPL and by melting rich insights from different authentic sources into one place, paves way for peace, harmony and success in the world of management at both levels: organizational as well as civilization.