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Item Analyzing the Relationship between Project Success and Critical Success Factors An Empirical Investigation for USAID Funded International Development Projects in Pakistan(University of Management & Technology, 2018) Ishaq Bin ZaighumThis study follows the updated framework of project success considering project sustainability, long term impact and stakeholders satisfaction in addition to traditional parameters of time, cost and scope. Instead of following a life-cycle based approach, the critical success factors pertaining to implementing organizations have been taken to study their relationship with the project success. These factors include availability of project funding, trainings of staff, clearly defined objectives, involvement of beneficiaries in decision making, communications with staff and provision of security to staff. A questionnaire adapted from the available literature on international development projects is administered to collect responses from development professionals who have worked in USAID funded international development projects in Pakistan. The respondents include managers, specialists, component leads, officers and associates. The analysis of the relationship reveals that availability of project funding, trainings of staff, clearly defined objectives, involvement of beneficiaries in decision making and provision of security to staff positively influence the success of USAID funded international development projects in Pakistan.Item Exploring the factors associated with project complexity in transport infrastructure development projects(University of Management and Technolog, 2017) Saeed Maqbool, TahirEnormous Transport Infrastructure Development Projects with expanding intricacies are being established at an increasing ratio in the developing countries. Project management is becoming complicated because of its bulkier Projects in term of duration and cost but also due to large number of stakeholders involved. In this respect, Project management is becoming increasing complex not only because of Projects are becoming larger in term of duration and cost but also due to large number of stakeholders involved. The purpose of this research is to identify the factors associated with project complexity in Transport Infrastructure development projects. This research is exploratory and employed quantitative paradigm to answer the research question. Findings of this research show that five factors are associated with project complexity in Transport Infrastructure Development Projects which are: Ambiguity in initial phases, Interdependence among process, Context, Diversity in background and large size. The research limitation is that this research employed the quantitative research strategy. This strategy yield data with greater latitude but not in profundity. Therefore, this research did not implement in-depth exploratory techniques associated with qualitative research paradigm. Furthermore, the cross-section of the respondents represent only Transport Infrastructure Development Projects, the sample does not cover all the possible sectors which could have complex projects (Engineering, IT, Supply chain etc.…). However, further investigation is required for other complex sectors.Item MPLS deployment a project report(University of Management and Technolog, 2016) Hussain, Ahsan; Muhammad Shoaib, Hafiz; Yaqoob, Ruqia; Usman Khaliq, Rana; Ahmad, SibghaNeed of MPLS is growing at very high rate. Organizations around the globe are adopting this technology for better and faster and reliable communication. MPLS has played pi vital role to meet the organization network related challenges. It has created efficiency and reliability which impact on overall business performance and day to day business activities. In our project we have tried to sketch and show real topology of MPLS along with its previous topology network infrastructure and configuration of MPLS which is most commonly used technology in current eraItem A diagnostic study on employee turnover at Fresenius medical care(University of Management and Technology, 2017) John, Risfa; Irfan, Ali; Ghazi, Iqra; Butt, UsmanEmployee turnover is a matter of great importance to private and public sector organizations. This importance reflects the tremendous financial and other costs, often linked with turnover. Employee turnover leads to increased personnel expenses, especially in the areas of recruitment and training. These costs will not happen if the organizations retain their employees. Our purpose to conduct this research is to look for the causes of high turnover rate in the Fresenius Medical Care, Pakistan. This research is pragmatic based and by conducting this extensive study, we tried to diagnose the root cause of “Employee Turnover” in Fresenius. This is a serious issue for the company which needed to be solved and hopefully it would affect the bottom line of the company. So all these things made us interested to study in this area. For this purpose qualitative analysis has been done. For qualitative analysis we have collected data through one-to-one interviews and analysis was done through NVivo 11. It was found that following factors affect the turnover in Technical Service Department in Fresenius Medical Care: a. Compensation and benefits b. Lack of employee engagement c. Excessive workload d. Poor internal communication.Item Evaluating the Effectiveness of Promotion Linked Training (PLT) at DSD(University of Management and Technology, 2014) Saima AshrafThe purpose of this research study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the promotion linked training (PLT) which aims at the professional development of the primary and secondary teachers in Punjab, Pakistan, conducted by the training institute known as Directorate of Staff Development (DSD). In this regard, the Kirkpatrick's model of training evaluation has been used and the training effectiveness has been determined. Moreover, the importance of the quality of teachers was discussed in the light of past research studies along with its relation with the professional development. Afterwards, the concept of professional development and its significance was discussed. The need of training for their professional growth was also discussed in the light of past research studies. Current research study employs a mix method approach as a research methodology which is the combination of both quantitative and qualitative data. In this regard, three data collection instruments were used i.e. questionnaire survey, semi-structured interviews and class room observations. The research site in this research study was DSD training center. The data was analyzed using the SPSS software and tests like Pearson correlation, regression and ANOVA were performed. The research findings indicated that, the promotion linked training conducted at DSD is effective in terms of enhancing the professional skills, performance and learning of the trainees.Item MED-WALL(University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) Muhammad Umar Tariq; Muhammad Asif Aslam; Muhammad Junaid Ghafoor; Muhammad Sohail Sibtain; Muhammad Jawad NazirThis Solution is devised to maintain an online forum to facilitate medical world to discuss and share new ideas and solution. Discussions will be done through this portal for any situation being faced. Notification will be sent to all members for any new activity via email. Advertisement will be the main source of income as well as publicity of businesses for clinics and pharmacies. Members will be facilitating each other by uploading required documents to explain their findings.Item Campus management system(University of Management and Technology, 2014) Rao Adnan Sarwar; Imran SaeedThis is a web application which can be utilized in any educational institution to perform the basic operations through software instead of manual work. So, the main purpose of the project is to produce a management system for educational institution and to enhance interconnectivity of sub-branches in a more effective way. This project is intended to create Campus Management System (CMS) that will help to interconnect all the branches, students and teachers’ data and financials records etc. CMS will provide the solution to a number of issues like • Student Record Management • Teacher Registration • Computerized Reports • Student Result • Date Sheet • Teacher & Parent meetings schedule The objective of this project is to manage the entire system of an educational system through a network comprised of Teachers, students and different records, like Fee records and, Session records, and attendance records. Furthermore this network will also manage the parents-teacher meeting Schedules.