Newsletter

Management Science
Department
February 2010 Patron: Dr.Shaukat Ali Hayat
Head: Dr. Ahmed Kaleem

Supervisors: Ms. Fukaiha Kaka Khail

Ms. Umara Shaheen

Editor: Ebtesam Khalid

News & Events

New Members to the CIIT Family

Dr. Shazia Hasan

Her area of specialization is clinical Psychology. She completed her doctorate from Karachi
University in 2002. She has been in the field of teaching, research and clinical practice for the last
nine years. Also she has a very keen interest in Psycho diagnosis and therapeutic interventions for
mentally disturbed people. Ms Shazia has presented research papers in national and international
conferences. Different social and personal issues and their relationship with mental health problems
are fields of her interest in research. Now she is working with CIIT, Lahore as Research Associates
in Management Sciences Department.

Ms. Seher Muneer

Ms Seher has done B.Sc and M.Sc in Economics from University of the Punjab. She has a good
experience of practical research which she conducted by visiting a number of renowned educational
institutions of Pakistan situated at Lahore. She has now joined CIIT, Lahore as Research Associate.

Ms. Naila Tabassum

She holds B.Sc (Hons) – Gold medalist in mathematics, University of the

Punjab, Lahore. Ms Tabassum has done MBA (Finance) from IBA, Punjab
University. Now she is working with CIIT, Lahore as Research Associates in
Management Sciences Department.
Mr. Waseem Anwar

Mr. Anwar has done 4 year Graduation in Commerce B.com

(Hons) with specialization in Finance, from Hailey College of Commerce in
2008. He then completed his MBA Finance from COMSATS Institute of
Information Technology Lahore. Mr. Anwar secured 1st position in MBA
Finance. He has recently joined COMSATS Institute of Information
Technology Lahore as a Research Associate.

Mr. Muhammad Aleem

Mr. Aleem has done his B.Sc Engineering (2002-2006) from University of
Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan, MBA (Strategy and Global
Management) (2007-2008) from KDI-School of Public Policy and
Management, Seoul South Korea. He has worked with World Trade
Organization, Geneva Switzerland (Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the
WTO). Mr. Aleem has taught at KDI-School of Public Policy and
Management, Seoul South Korea and also has the experience of working at
DESCON Engineering Limited Lahore.
He also has publications on Foreign direct investment in Pakistan; the case of
energy sector (Book, available at www.amazon.com ISBN-13: 978-
3838319940).

Currently Joined CIIT as a lecturer.

Mr. Muhammad Bilal Javed

Mr. Javed did BS (BA) from CIIT Abbottabad and MSc in International
Marketing from University of East London. He is CIM (Chartered Institute of
Marketing) qualified. He has a teaching experience from TVU London,
moreover worked with prestigious organizations like Sainsbury’s (UK), Honda,
PC hotel Lahore and Haleeb foods Ltd Pakistan.

Mr. Ahmad Hassaan Aslam

Mr. Hassaan has joined Comsats Institute of Information Technology as

Lecturer. He has done MS Finance from Graduate School University of
Gothenburg Sweden. His Previous academics were from Government College
University Lahore. His areas of Interests include Corporate Finance, Corporate
Governance and Corporate Valuation.
Mr. Khuram Shahzad

Mr. Shahzad has recently joined MS department as Research Associate.

He did his Bachelors in IT from COMSATS Lahore (2003-2007) and then
did MBA in Marketing (2007-2009) from the same Institution.

Naat/Tilawat Competition

Mr. Mudassar Awan arranged a competition of Naat Khawni and Nilawa on Wednesday.
Mian Marghoob Ahmed Hamdaani and Qari Amjad Bilali were the chief guests and honored
the event with their heart touching Tilawat and Naat. Mr. Shaukat Ali Hayat also attended
the event. All the participants beautifully conducted the ceremony and competed with full
zeal and modesty. The first prize for Naat was achieved by Hafiz Hunain and for Tilawat it
went to a student of Management Science Department.

Welcome Parties

Event Management Committee organized welcome parties for the newly joined students of BBA
and MBA. Students of 2nd semester of the respective batches participated very enthusiastically to
make the event successful and memorable. Skits, performances, solo singing, modeling and much
more was on the stage to entertain the audience. The students and the faculty enjoyed these
parties. The chief guest for the event was Director Comsats Dr.Shaukat Ali Hayat.
Head of the Department Dr. Kaleem appreciated all the participants and members of EMS on
arranging such entertaining functions.
 Debate Competition

ADEEB – The Literary Society CIIT Lahore and the Department of Management Sciences jointly
organized Inter-University Debate Competition with collaboration from the Center for Civic
Education Islamabad. The widely-advertised program was held on February 16, 2010 in the
campus.

In this competition five renowned Universities of Punjab – the University of Punjab, Government
College University Lahore, University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Kinnaird College
Lahore, and CIIT Lahore. The winners were given cash prizes and the certificates. The organizers
were served with shields and certificates.

The Chief Guest of the event, Dr. Salman Ahmed, Incharge Academics, praised the organizing
committee and the participants for their vigorous participation in the event.
 Lecture on Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation

The Department of Management Sciences organized an interactive lecture of Earthquake

Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) Islamabad on February 15, 2010. The Deputy
Chairman ERRA Lieutenant General Sajjad Akram was the Guest Speaker. On behalf of the
Department of Management Sciences, Mr. Sami Lashari coordinated and organized the event.

The honorable Guest Speaker delivered a detailed lecture of the services ERRA rendered to the
nation in the aftermath of earthquake in Azad Kashmir, Northern Areas, and NWFP. He, through
facts and figures, showed in detail how ERRA’s success has been rated the best in the world and it
has successfully finished 82% of its projects with national and international technical and fiscal
support worth $ 5 billions. The theme song of ERRA was also played there. During the Q&A
session, the Guest Speaker urged the students that they should serve the nation with zeal and
commitment.

On behalf of CIIT, Director Dr. Shaukat Ali Hayat thanked ERRA for serving the nation and setting
the global standards of excellence in Disaster Management. He also presented to the General the
memorable shield of CIIT as an acknowledgement of his services to the nation. The ERRA media
cell distributed CDs of theme song of ERRA among the students.

Publishing your Research

A one day workshop “Publishing your Research” was jointly organized by the Department of
Management Sciences, COMSATS. Lahore and Institute of Research Promotion held on 20th
January, 2010 in Seminar room C Block.

The key speaker of the workshop was Prof. Dr. Khalid Mehmood from the Department of Library
and Information Science, University of the Punjab.
The agenda of the workshop
included the following topics,

Writing for publishing

Finding publishing
avenues
Review process
Publishing process from
thesis to journal articles
and from thesis to book
Online publishing
Self publishing
Promoting your
publications
Ethical and legal issues

It is worth mentioning here that

this workshop was one of a kind, as the speaker shared his own experiences.
It was attended by the representatives of 15 universities that included 36 participants from CIIT,
Lahore and 65 from other universities. Moreover, it was arranged for the first time in Pakistan in
relevance to its topic.

Papers Published and presented in Conferences

The Impact of Financial Restructuring on the Performance of Pakistani Banks: A

DEA Approach

Mian Sajid Nazir and Atia Alam

The IUP Journal of Applied Finance, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 71-86, January 2010

Mr. Sajid and Ms Atia have successfully got published their article in the journal of Applied Finance.
They highlighted that Privatization is one of the most sophisticated techniques to improve the
financial position of the banking sector and evaluated the operating efficiency of 28 Pakistani
commercial banks over a five-year period, i.e., 2003-2007, through the traditional method and Data
Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. The results of the traditional approach suggest that
privatization cannot help banks in improving their operating income. These results add further
robustness to the findings of the DEA approach of measuring efficiency, which shows that public
banks are better able to cover their interest and non-interest expenses from their corresponding
revenues.

Well done Mr. Sajid and Ms Atia!

 "University Student's Inclination toward Governance and its Effects of
Entrepreneurial Intentions: an Empirical Analysis"

The conference title was 'International Conference on Business, Economics and Tourism
Management' organized by the International Association of Computer Sciences and Information
Technology, Singapore.

The conference was a wonderful gathering of

researchers from all around the globe, including
people from America, Italy, France, Germany,
Australia, Malaysia, India, Egypt, Iran, Indonesia,
Pakistan and many other countries.

It was a prestigious platform to learn about the

modern concepts in business/economics and to
share knowledge with learned participants.
Researchers were also happy to interact with
people from different continents, races, and
diverse backgrounds.

Academic Dishonesty and Perceptions of Pakistani Students

Mian Sajid Nazir and Muhammad Shakeel Aslam

Second International Conference on Business, Technology and Engineering (ICBTE-

2010) during 23-24 January, 2010.

Abstract: Academic dishonesty has been a matter of great concern in higher education for last few
decades. The dishonest behavior of students at graduate and undergraduate level has become a
severe issue for education and business sector, especially when the students exercise same
dishonest practices at their jobs. The number of private and public sector universities is increasing;
therefore, the effects of academic dishonest behavior on potential professionals need to be carefully
investigated and appropriate policies must be formulated by academicians in order to resolve this
issue. The present research addresses this matter by investigating the perceptions of students’
towards academic dishonesty and exploring the security and penalties for dishonest acts of
students. A well-structured questionnaire was used to collect the data from 958 respondents
studying at graduate and undergraduate levels in different Pakistani universities. The results
provide a strong implication for academicians to develop the moralities and ethics in students so
that institutions may provide ethically cultivated professionals to the business community.