The Impact of Critical Factors on Mergers and Acquisition in Converging ICT Industry

The objective of this research was to find out the impact of critical factors like company strategy, management decisions and cost & timing for merger and acquisition in ICT industry. This research was based on primary data which collected by means of questionnaire from the all level employees of four major companies like warid, LinkdotNet, Mobilink and NSN Networks at Islamabad. The collected data was analyzed for correlation and regression. The correlation tests showed that there is positive significant correlation among all the factors, while the regression test showed that the model is fit for the research and can predict future research results. On the completion of this research and evaluation of data this research is helpful of providing a useful in sight of corporate mergers in the era of fundamental changes and daily changing market scenarios in ICT industry. It will provide us some outlines to make Merger and Acquisitions (M&A) a fruitful outcome and enable company to gain competitive advantage. Keywords: Merger and acquisition, ICT industry Company strategy, Management decision, cost & timin

Impact of On-Job Training on Performance of Telecommunication Industry

This research is about On-Job training and Performance of organization. It discusses the importance of training and its output, which is very necessary for individual performance and over all organizational performance. In this research study, various variables, which are the outcome of Training, have been taken into account. Further, more the relationship of all those variables with the over all organizational performance has been studied. A structural model has been developed according to the results and relationship of these variables. The research will add a significant figure to the performance of organization and will raise the importance and value of training in organizations. The results are applicable to all type of organizations and will help managers to make their firms more productive and stable

Organizational Commitment of IT Professionals in Public Sector

This study focuses on the factors like salary/incentives, interpersonal conflicts, employeesorganization interface, job satisfaction and organizational culture, in order to clarify the behavior of organizational commitment among information technology employees in public sector organizations. The study provides an insight of the culture of public sector organization, which managers may use for the improvement of organizational commitment. The study tested and analyzed the proposed model, which gave valuable results. The result of the study also claims that organizational commitment may be increased

Factors Influencing the Process of Decision Making in Telecommunication Sector

Decision Making is the most important element for every organization. It can raise a firm to the market leader or can fall a market leader to disappear.  Therefore it is important to know, what factors have strong influence over decision making. This paper finds out the factors which have a great impact over the suitability of decision making. These are individual experience, intelligence, information availability and organizational capabilities. The research is based on questionnaire survey from telecommunication organization in Pakistan. The data was analyzed through SPSS tools for getting results. Broad recommendations are made decision making. The research is equally applicable to all type of organizations irrespective of their type and products. Keywords: Intelligence (I), Individual Experience (IE), Availability of Information (AOI), Organizational Capabilities, Decision Making (DM) and Strategically Suitable Decision making (SSDM)

Role of Knowledge Management in Achieving Customer Relationship and its Strategic Outcomes

The aim of this research is to find out the role of Knowledge Management in getting relationship with customers.  It investigates the problem to asses the Knowledge Management importance and to ascertain how to ensure good Customer Relationship. A questionnaire survey was conducted in telecommunication sector organizations like Warid, Telenor, Ufone, Zong and PTCL for finding the concept of Knowledge Management among the managers and to determine whether through Knowledge Management, Customer Relationship are achieved or not. The research data was analyzed through SPSS tools. Based on our results some broad recommendations are made achieving Customer Relationship and other important business elements through Knowledge Management. Keywords: Knowledge Management (KM), Customer Relationship (CR), Business Strategy (BS), Market Information (MI), Information about Competitors (IAC)

Implications of Political Stability and Financial innovations for Sectoral Economic Growth of Pakistan

The economic status of a country plays an important role in the lives of the citizens of both developed and developing countries. With the rapid increase in population, every country is trying to find new ways to boost its growth rate so that it may elicit the maximum number of people from poverty and can compare other countries in the form of improvement. The main objective of the study is to empirically investigate the impact of political stability and financial innovations on economic growth. Furthermore, the study also analyzes the impact of subsectors (Agricultural, Industry, and Services) of the economy on growth. A time-series co-integration autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is used to investigate the general to specific sector's growth. The key empirical finding shows that political stability and financial development has a positive and significant impact on economic growth as well as its sub-sectors in the long-run. Trade liberalization has a positive impact on economic growth but most surprising results have been witnessed in agriculture growth for Pakistan

Issues and Solution of Ethical Climate and Turnover Intention in PTCL

This study makes significant payment to our beliefs about issues and solution of ethical climate and turnover intention. This research is not only discusses how ethical climate creates trust in supervisor, emotional exhaustion, and organizational commitment but also explains how these parameters affect job satisfaction, which relates to turnover intention. All the parameter, we use in our research is well tested and exercised. To explain our point of view in well understandable manner, a structured model is derived from the literature on the subject. More over this research brings the issue of ethical climate to the discussion table and provides a well-established path to other researchers. The research will make the managers able to lessen the turnover intention in the organization. As the study linking various variables and theories, it suggests the main affects and causes of their interdependences. It also helps managers to maintain such an ethical climate, which leads to job satisfaction and less turnover rate

Impact of Knowledge Management on Security of Information and its Strategic Outcomes

Security of Information plays an important role in the progress of any organization. This research finds out that Information Security can be achieved through proper Knowledge Management in organizations especially in Telecommunication Sector. Not only the literature supports the theme of the research but it was also proved by the analysis and results of the respondents responses. Knowledge Management was found to have positive and significant influence over Security of Information. A framework was also developed for studying the relationship among Knowledge Management, Security of Information, Information Governance, Information Risk Management and Safety to Organizational Knowledge; which was tested through correlation and regression. Though the research was carried out in Telecommunication Sector organizations, yet it is equally valuable for and implementable in any other sector. Keywords: Knowledge Management (KM), Information Governance (IG), Information Risk Management (IRM), Safety to Organizational Knowledge (SOK)

Analysis of Consumer Perception towards Telecommunication Services

The use of Telecommunication services has been strikingly increased in recent decade. Hence it has become crucial to investigate the reasons behind telecom usage patterns and understand factors playing an important role for perception of telecom services. These investigations are important for both consumers and telecommunication service provider in order to build a strong relationship towards better delivery of telecom services which may result in satisfied customer. The developed model of this research is consisting of five variables which have a lot of impact on perception of consumer towards adoption of telecom services. The results of this research have numbers of practical applications both for marketer and telecom service consumer

Determining the Effect of Innovations for Mobile Banking Adoption in Pakistan

Mobile banking is the source of checking the daily banking affairs at anywhere, where the internet service is available. The main objective of this research was to check the impact of innovations on adoption of mobile banking in Pakistan. The research was based on primary data, which was collected from 500 students of all the public and private universities of Pothohar region (Islamabad/Rawalpindu) by means of a questionnaire. Random Sampling Technique was used and through SPSS the correlation analysis and regression analysis were calculated. The correlation analysis results showed that there is positive significant relationship between Innovations, with adoption of mobile banking in Pakistan. The regression analysis showed that the value of R square = 0.621, which means that the independent variable Innovation has 62%  effect on dependent variable  Mobile Banking Adoption. This research will helpful for banking sector and other related commercial organizations. Keywords: Innovations, Telecom Sector, Mobile banking, Pakistani Environment