Dr. Syed Salman Hassan

Virtual University of Pakistan · Faculty of Management

Human resource capital is the most strategic part of any organization. Retention of human resources is a critical issue these days. Keeping in view the importance of human capital and its retention, present study aimed to explore the impact of two strong predictors, job satisfaction and organizational commitment, on turnover intentions of employees...

This paper examined the impact of positive youth development initiatives on youth in Lahore, Pakistan through the provision of youth services. Youth is considered as one of the most important segments of the population in a country as it has to take over future roles and responsibilities. Currently, Pakistan is one of those countries which has the...

This conceptual paper tries to encompass the development of open innovation concept from 2003 till now. Open innovation is one of hottest and most debated topic in the field of innovation management. In last decade, since the publication of the book "open innovation" by Chesbrough, the idea of open innovation has received extensive interest of scho...

The current study was conducted to evaluate the role of Punjab Vocational Council in promoting empowerment of youth in rural areas of District Bhakkar. It was a case study of vocational training institutes working under Punjab Vocational Training Council (PVTC). Out of 06 vocational training institutes of District Bhakkar, 03 institutes were select...

Half of the world’s population, i.e. women, and one third population of world, i.e. children, are vulnerable in biological sense. Women and children become the most neglected segments of population during natural disasters. This conceptual paper provides an insight about the specific needs and problems of children and women before, during and after...

The sustainability of Rural Water Supply Schemes (RWSS), managed by communities, is a major concern in the developing world. A sustainable RWSS delivers safe and sufficient drinking water for a longer period to rural people. Community management was viewed as an accepted model that leads to sustainability, even though community management had diffi...

Self-centered organizations focus more on material outcomes. Due to this materialistic thinking and greed for more wealth are the main reasons for lack of employee performance and unethical behaviour of employees as they just have one purpose that is to earn money. Present study has multi-dimensional significance. Firstly, it operationalized the co...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a phenomenon that had been discussed from decades. An increasing demand from society and corporate stakeholders forces the corporations to behave in a socially responsible way. Although many reputed corporations spend resources for social welfare and economic well-being of the society but still the concept h...

Crisis is a change, resulting in an urgent problem, which must be addressed immediately. As crises are unique events, hence, Crisis Management Team (CMT) requires high level of creativity and needs to generate novel solutions in order to cater crisis situations. Crisis management is relatively new and less explored field of study. Few attempts have...