Muhammad Fiaz

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PhD Student at Northwestern Polytechnical University xi'an China

The COVID-19 outbreak has disturbed the victims' economic conditions and posed a significant threat to economies worldwide and their respective financial markets. The majority of the world stock markets have suffered losses in the trillions of dollars, and international financial institutions were forced to reduce their forecasted growth for 2020 a...

Branding activities provide space to create internal culture, processes and a kind of organizational system which allows employees to use their abilities to their maximum. Internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of an organization increase employee commitment, which ultimately enhances employee retention. There is a need to explor...

The industrial sector is consuming 35% of the total energy production in Pakistan. Furthermore, many emphases are given in this domain during the past few decades. Energy crises have incredibly influenced the industrial sector which affects the country's economy directly. Electricity saving is possible in the industrial sector by using techniques o...

Considering the universal competitive pressures, it is imperative for the organizations to be more dynamic and innovative. The viability of companies is dependent on innovation and organizational culture is regarded as an important component in realizing the objective of product innovation. The study examines the association between ambidextrous or...

The aim of this paper was to outline the factors that provoke the knowledge sharing intents of employees and contribute toward knowledge sharing processes that result in a better rate of innovation implementation by the organizations. This research follows a holistic approach to study ‘Knowledge Sharing’. Referring to the holistic approach, this st...

BACKGROUND: Employee’s trust influences the organizational performance and leads to the accomplishment of organizational goals and objectives within a defined timeframe. Organizational Justice defines how equitably the employees of an organization are treated by their management considering both structural and cultural parameters. Trust is a manife...

The paper is set out to explore the factors, like cost and time saving, that shows how 3D printing strengthens R&D collaboration among academia and industry.3D printers are becoming the need of era and are applicable in many sectors like medical, aerospace, automotive, architecture, construction and consumer goods etc. R&D collaboration leads to th...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the perception of healthcare professionals in improving the quality of services in healthcare centers by deploying the platform of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Individual attributes, organizational impression, information, and the system quality of ERP have been used to evaluate the overall influence...

Purpose The paper highlights the characteristic role of specialized markets and traders in the internationalization of emerging economies by examining the linkages between supply chain management and industrial clustering in China. Design/methodology/approach Multi-method approach was employed as primary data was collected from a case study of S...

The study examines the linkage between profitability and working capital management of private sector power producers of Pakistan. The energy crisis resulted in increased reliance on independent power producers (IPPs), which lead to various financial irregularities. Data for a period of seven years (2008–2014) was collected from 11 IPPs listed on t...

3D printing is an industrial revolution that brought revolutionary advancement in the manufacturing sector. China is leading in the traditional manufacturing sector, but the disruptive technology of additive manufacturing has provided developed economies with an opportunity to leapfrog to the front. Thus there is a need for a comprehensive business...

Leader’s personality considerably influences the behavior of employees and is perhaps one of the most important predictor of their job performance. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the personality-performance paradigm in the context of emerging economies. Personality was assessed through big five traits, namely openness to experience, consc...

The empirical study was undertaken to explore the determinants of non-performing loans (NPLs) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) sector held by the commercial banks. Stratified sampling technique was used to collect primary data through well-structured survey questionnaire from credit analysts / bankers of 42 branches of 9 commercial banks, ope...

Women entrepreneurship witnessed healthy rise in the last decade or so, and the scenario in Pakistan is not different. However female leaders are facing various, cultural, career oriented, and professional challenges. The study investigates the impact of social and industry-specific challenges on female entrepreneurship; social challenges was evalu...

Use of ERPS (Enterprise Resource Planning System) in healthcare sector has positive impacts. The purpose of this research is to find out the individual and organizational impact in healthcare sector. Hypotheses were postulated that the use of ERPS has positive individual and organizational impacts. A research questionnaire was used to test these hy...

The aim of this study was to check the mediating role of management practices in relationship with clinical governance and performance of health care organizations in Pakistan. This quantitative study based on Baron and Kenny mediation model, contributed to existing stream of knowledge and elaborated that management practices can support the relati...

This study discusses quality practices in Pakistani Petrochemical sector to understand TQM practices and their implementation in Pakistan. It helps to understand the role of leadership, vision & plan statement, employee participation and education & training as important constructs of TQM. It shows how these constructs help to speed up the TQM impl...

This study discusses quality practices in Pakistani Petrochemical sector to understand TQM practices and their implementation in Pakistan. It helps to understand the role of leadership, vision & plan statement, employee participation and education & training as important constructs of TQM. It shows how these constructs help to speed up the TQM impl...

This research endeavor is an evaluation of the paradigm of alliances among the academia and industry for the execution of research and development scenarios. It highlights the dynamics of such collaborations and pops out the factors that make this partnership feasible. It concentrates on the kinesthetic of the partners for creating a win-win ecosys...

This research investigates the relationship between best human resource (HR) practices and optimized HR among public and private sector of Pakistan. Main objective of this research is to explore the impact of best HR practices on optimized HR in organizations of Pakistan. This study considered five practices such as recruitment & selection, trainin...

The aim of this research paper is to delve into the intricacies of complexity enhancing uncertainties in Research and Development (R&D) alliances and peeps into the dynamics of such R&D relationships and their sustainability. Major incertitude, faced by project managers during R&D project execution in articulated R&D environment have been listed do...

This paper provides the brief overview of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERPs) and its use in healthcare sector. In past years, the use of information technology in healthcare sector has been increased but a little direction is available in the literature about its evaluation of benefits. In this article a literature review was conducted rel...

This research paper is an effort to highlight prominent key risks which are involved in marketing of civil engineering products. Construction moguls hire the services of third party to market and sale the engineering products but they are not fully experts in construction affairs. A framework of marketing risks has been devised to help the third pa...

Although, a long list of researchers in the literature have uncovered the reasons for, and types of R&D collaborations among corporations, but none of them have explored complexity in such alliances in terms of project complexity. Core concept of this article is to explore and understand the concept of complexity in doing joint R&D projects under o...

Although, a long list of researchers in the literature have uncovered the reasons for, and types of R&D collaborations among corporations, but none of them have explored complexity in such alliances in terms of project complexity. Core concept of this article is to explore and understand the concept of complexity in doing joint R&D projects under o...

Attitude Determination (AD) of a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) small satellite using the code and phase measurements of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is explored in this research. The proliferation of satellite based navigation system and the burgeoning application area of small satellites in the field of Earth observation has motivated this r...

This research contribution highlights the role of academia and industry in Pakistan to cope with the mushrooming applications and technology of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). The Global Positioning System (GPS) of U.S is fully operational, and the GLObal'naya NAvigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema (GLONASS) of Russia has got the latest u...

This research contribution has been drafted to explore the basic complexity traits which trigger the construction projects towards complex premises. Complexity cannot be avoided during project execution but it can be managed by rehearsing key construction management practices. This research determines the impacts of key practices on construction pr...

This paper has been drafted to explore the major project management challenges faced by the project management organizations and other industry in China. These challenges push organizations to complexity. This research also highlights managerial skills required to cope with these challenges and to reduce the project complexities. A lion share of li...

This research contributes to the concept of Human Resource (HR) practices for small entertainment organizations. Entertainment industry is one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the present media-driven culture. HR practices are not only confined to large organization, but now it has become the part of medium and small organizations too. The ef...

This research contribution is drafted in the backdrop of emerging challenges faced by academia and industry for the sustainable growth. University is considered as the centre of learning and personality development of the youth .The student affairs department is the nucleus of all activities related with academic and non-academic activities of the...

This research article is drafted to contribute in an emerging concept of International Education Management. The latest trend of internationalization of education is creating a plethora of issues and concerns for the local and foreign students at any academic institution of higher education. The Author has presented the panoramic view of this burge...

This research paper presents the novel idea of knowledge dissemination through internet streaming via internet based radio. The modern wave of e-learning and advancement in the cyber technology have spurred the technological leaps in the domain of learning and applications. The Authors have presented the idea of edu-infotainment encompassing inform...

This paper presents the implementation of Human Resource Management (HRM) fundamentals in an entertainment industry especially for an internet based streaming radio. Authors have presented the Human Resource (HR) model for a streaming radio while emphasizing on the procedure of recruitment of radio jockeys (RJs) and disc jockeys (DJs), the orientat...

This paper investigates the emerging concept of management trainings for the young professionals especially in the industrial and academic institutions. The novel concept of management trainings for the graduating students at the university level are suggested in order to equip the nascent working youth for the challenges of the industry. A concept...

The core theme of this work is to explore barriers to R&D collaborations that can lessen the tendencies to make joint R&D clusters among public–private research organizations and academic institutes. 20 th century was loaded with heaps of barriers hindering the cooperation behaviors. 21 st century was the ingress to more complexities in science, te...

This research contribution is an effort to figure out the root causes that leads to the integration and disintegration of Research & Development (R&D) collaborations between University and Industry. R&D has been in practice since many years in nearly all kinds of organizations from developed and developing nations. Educational institutions with str...

This article is premeditated to give an insight about a symmetrical R&D culture of integrity and sharing of innovative knowledge and for highlighting a paradigm shift in R&D Collaboration towards University-Industry R&D Collaboration. The concept of R&D collaboration is being overwhelmingly consented and admired by small and large organizations all...

This paper presents the concept, results and the project execution and evaluation of an innovative and novel, community- based schooling system established by the foreign students of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) [1], Xi'an, China at the university campus for the children of foreign students under the patronage of university administr...

This paper has been evolved in the backdrop of vibrant and changing paradigms of the responsibilities and functionalities of Student Affairs in academic institutions and it presents the evolving roles of Student Affairs department in the current environment of academia and learning. A new landscape of activities and approach is presented to cater t...