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Organizational Citizenship Behavior In Educational Settings In Pakistan, Nauman A. Abdullah Jul 2016

Organizational Citizenship Behavior In Educational Settings In Pakistan, Nauman A. Abdullah

Business Review

Organizational citizenship behavior refers to non-paid voluntary activities engaged in by staff of any organization. This article provides a review of the literature on such behaviour in Pakistan.


Strategic Shift Towards Knowledge Based Educational Management In Pakistan, Ahmad Raza, Ejaz Ahmad, Muhammad Ali Jul 2016

Strategic Shift Towards Knowledge Based Educational Management In Pakistan, Ahmad Raza, Ejaz Ahmad, Muhammad Ali

Business Review

Three approaches characterize the management of education in Pakistan: historical-traditional; colonial administrative; and modern western. A deficiency common to all three approaches is that a cultural mindset legitimizes their respective structures and hierarchies, leaving no room for the growth of human capital and thereby stifling creativity, innovation and adaptation to the emerging needs of society. Knowledge Economy considerations suggest that we take a different approach to education management to meet the challenges of the new millennium and transform Pakistan into a knowledge democracy.


Global Alliance Approach For Effectiveness Of Higher Education In Business Studies - A Case Approach, Arup Barman Jan 2015

Global Alliance Approach For Effectiveness Of Higher Education In Business Studies - A Case Approach, Arup Barman

Business Review

This paper covers the issue of foreign collaboration in the Indian Business Education and its implications on professionalism and development of competence among the budding managers. The issue of foreign collaboration in Indian Business Education is considerably significant issue in the light of India as an emerging economic power and business. Already there is considerable flow of foreign collaboration in Indian business education witnessed by the institutional partnership. The existing institutional partnership and the future intension of foreign players are entering in business educations have been impacting in the new professional development as well as to develop professional competence in …


Role Of Education In Human Development: A Study Of South Asian Countries, Amna Mahmood Jul 2012

Role Of Education In Human Development: A Study Of South Asian Countries, Amna Mahmood

Business Review

Although education is a source of better income and jobs, it has much value for social development as an imperative for the development of human capital. That is why it is considered to be a vital part of development economics. Most of the economists have a consensus that the pace of economic and social development of a country depends on its human resource rather than its material resources. But South Asian policy makers paid merely a lip service to this area. In this region the demographic nightmare poses a key challenge for human development since the population has more than …


Role Of Mass Media In Quality Assurance Of Higher Education In Pakistan, Sohaib Rabbani Khan Jul 2009

Role Of Mass Media In Quality Assurance Of Higher Education In Pakistan, Sohaib Rabbani Khan

Business Review

Higher education is the ladder to economic prosperity in today’s world. Quality in higher education indeed is the basic requirement for success of higher education institutions. But quality is never an accident, it is always the result of diligent work. During the last decade almost 50 universities / institutes of higher education have been established in the country. But the variations in quality of its graduates are too wide to accept. The objectives of this research were to find out the role of mass media in improving the quality of higher education and how far the same can be improved. …


Role Of Positive Experiences In Teachers' Reflective Engagement: A Case Study Of Three Individual Teachers, Zeenat Ismail, Rabail Qayyum Jul 2009

Role Of Positive Experiences In Teachers' Reflective Engagement: A Case Study Of Three Individual Teachers, Zeenat Ismail, Rabail Qayyum

Business Review

This study examines determinants for small business success in Bangladesh. These include: characteristic of SMEs, their management and know-how, products and services, style of doing business, financial and other resources and external environment. Such study has not been conducted before in the context of Bangladesh. Findings of the study are useful for entrepreneurs and policy makers. Study is based on survey methodology through a questionnaire administered on the employees of small firms. Data is analyzed using SPSS. Six hypotheses are proposed and tested. Most significant factors affecting business success of SMEs in Bangladesh were found to be products and services, …


Investigating Technicist-Managerialism In The Values Endorsed In Mba Programmes, Sara Khan Jan 2007

Investigating Technicist-Managerialism In The Values Endorsed In Mba Programmes, Sara Khan

Business Review

This article investigates the incidence of technicist-managerialism in two MBA programmes of Pakistan by inquiring into the values endorsed in them. Findings about values found in the two schools are presented in the form of quotes from interviews and excerpts from official publications of these two business schools. Consequences of such thinking are then discussed in the light of management literature.