Nasira Jabeen

• Professor (Full) at University of the Punjab

The study reviews the tenure track system (TTS) as a performance management system in Pakistan’s higher education sector. It aims to understand the factors that contributed to the success or failure of the system by considering structural, cultural, political, and institutional aspects of performance management. The researchers adopted a multiple c...

Pakistan introduced the Tenure Track System (TTS) as a new performance‐based reform in public universities in 2005. The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of higher education authorities, university leaders and tenure‐track faculty about the implementation of this reform. This is a qualitative interpretive study and utilised a n...

This study examines the co-creation between a public university and industry and the building blocks that shape co-creation in the context of Pakistan. A conceptual framework has been developed based on the perspective of Service Dominant Logic, which connotes that value is created from the integration of resources through interactions between co-c...

This book provides a research-based analysis of public sector reforms in Pakistan. It offers a broad overview of reforms at different levels of government – including federal, provincial and local – and examines decentralization and devolution reforms in various policy sectors. It also reflects on market-oriented reforms and the steps taken to invo...

Public sector reform is a policy that includes design, decision, implementation, and evaluation. Increasingly, public management reform policy is globalized and comparative. Visions on ‘Whole of Society’, and ‘Whole of Government’ include ideological, political, and technical choices between ‘Hierarchy’, ‘Market’, or ‘Network’ as driving forces of...

Educational institutions play a foundational role in the socioeconomic development of countries around the world. Their importance cannot be understated, and this makes educational reforms an apt domain of study. The chapter deliberates on the recent educational reforms relating to deregulation in Pakistani Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and...

The focus of this study is to assess accountability of electronic media authorities in Pakistan by analyzing the case of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA). This research aims to investigate the emergence and rationale behind creation of independent regulatory authorities, why they need to be held accountable and what framework...

After 1980s, creation of regulatory authorities in Pakistan was initiated as part of reform initiatives directed by international donor entities. In order to control partisan interference from politicians and executive branches of government in the broadcast media, independent regulatory authorities were created in developed countries followed by t...

Third sector organizations are emerging as one of the major partner in governance along with the public and corporate sector all over the world including Pakistan. However, there is dearth of research on governance practices and models specifically the role of advisory board in such organizations. The paper explores the dominant model of internal o...

Tenure Track System was introduced in Pakistan in the year 2004 following the New Public Management influenced higher education reforms in 2002. Focusing on this intervention, the study aimed to assess and evaluate the Tenure Track System implementation in higher education institutions (HEI's) exploring its implementation status, identifying challe...

The researchers shed light on the interaction of tenure track as higher education reform with the socio-cultural context of public universities in Pakistan. The paper postulates on the perception of leaders of central and provincial regulatory bodies on this intervention. The researchers adopt a qualitative research design, and the data were obtain...

Governance context is the holistic arena of perspectives where an entity operates. These perspectives not only influence the operations of the government but also affect the policy making and development initiatives. This conceptual paper discusses and maps the wider historical governance structure and culture of Pakistan’s public sector while usin...

For around two and a half decades since Perry and Wise coined the term in 1990, research on Public Service Motivation (PSM) has achieved significant attention from scholars around the globe. Many notable journals in the field of Public Administration and Personnel Management have frequently published articles on the topic under discussion. This are...

Creation of autonomous bodies backed by New Public Management is not a new phenomenon in Pakistan rather is a notion opposing traditional bureaucratic structure and system in Pakistan. Therefore, there is a strong tendency that either this system would be resisted by bureaucracy, or it would be changed in a way that would support the current status...

Local government in Pakistan had a new beginning under General Pervez Musharraf. A new Local Government Ordinance, introduced in 2001, provided for reserving 33% of seats for women in all three tiers of local government, i.e., District, Tehsil and Union Councils through an affirmative action. The response of rural women to the government plan to as...

The article discusses governance mechanisms across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) created under various legal instruments in Pakistan. Additionally, it attempts to compare state control and autonomy of SOEs as provided under various legal instruments in Pakistan. It is a descriptive paper based on secondary data from legal instruments (private and...

The paper deliberates on major reform initiatives in higher education institutions in Pakistan. It is aimed at presenting a holistic review of higher education reforms in Pakistan including the drivers behind these initiatives in the last decade. This study focus on teachers as important stake holders in the process of higher education reforms in P...

This study explores how state enterprises, incorporating competing institutional logics, internally manage the contradiction of logics that they embody. Using case study research design, the study attempts to evaluate adoption of private-sector HRM practices (in place of contradictory personnel administration practices) in Sui Northern Gas Pipeline...

There is an emerging research area related to vision, hope, faith and intrinsic motivation is ―spiritual leadership‖. Researchers are presently in quest of publication channels as knockers argue whether this novel leadership theory is ominously discrete, practical, and valued for organizational triumph. The purpose of this research was to find rese...

One of the most significant current discussions in the public management agenda over the last couple of decades is public-private partnerships (PPPs). Despite the positive rhetoric, huge efforts are required to reap the advantages of PPPs and overcome the many potential challenges. In meeting these challenges, it is important to understand and mana...

This article presents a systematic literature review of ninety (90) articles (2006-2016) of e-government evaluation. The aim was to collect, summarize and integrate literature on e-government services' evaluation of the past decade and to analyze which aspects of evaluation have received increased or less attention. Results have been synthesized an...

The resource based view of the organization conceptualizes diversity as a valuable, scarce and difficult to imitate resource. The phenomenon of diversity, specifically gender diversity, is fast becoming an inevitable reality for the contemporary organizations as an increasing number of female workers are joining the formal work force both in the...

Format: Academic paper In the last three decades an array of governance reforms have been introduced world over to boost the efficiency, effectiveness and performance of institutions, specifically public sector organisations. The main focus of these reforms is on principles such as autonomy, decentralisation, partnership, participation, accountabil...

Format: Academic paper In the last three decades an array of governance reforms have been introduced world over to boost the efficiency, effectiveness and performance of institutions, specifically public sector organisations. The main focus of these reforms is on principles such as autonomy, decentralisation, partnership, participation, accountabil...

The paper deliberates on the issue of public policy making process and strategies in the specific context of Pakistan in view of the universal call for good governance, efficient service delivery, accountability, participation and sound public policy making through empowering people and leveraging their potential in the process of governance. It em...

The paper deliberates on the issue of public policy making process and strategies in the specific context of Pakistan in view of the universal call for good governance, efficient service delivery, accountability, participation and sound public policy making through empowering people and leveraging their potential in the process of governance. It em...

Owing to growing strategic value of diverse human capital as a competitive edge for the organizations, the international development community is actively concerned to address the significant asymmetry between the male and female professional careers, especially when it comes to attain the highest echelons of management. Men are still earning more...

Organizations all over the world are concerned about the success of expatriates on international assignments due to the highly global nature of business today. They try to enhance cross cultural adjustment of expatriates and try to minimize expat failure resulting into pre mature return and low performance. The paper deliberates on this important i...

The paper discusses the issue and importance of mentoring, networking and politicking with reference to gender in the specific context of higher education institutions of Pakistan using University of the Punjab as a case in point. While importance of mentoring in career advancement was reported through surveys and interviews conducted with the facu...

Tenure Track System was introduced in Pakistan in the year 2004 following the 2002 Higher Education Reforms. This System was brought basically as an alternate to the conventional Basic Pay Scale System prevalent in the entire Public Sector. As these reforms were influenced by global practices and institutions, therefore, when these reforms were int...

Urbanization is the process of growth in urban areas. It is increasing at global level as well as in Pakistan. Pakistan is urbanizing at an annual rate of 3%-the fastest pace in South Asia (Kotkin and Cox, 2013). Inflated urbanization in Pakistan is caused due to both external/internal migration to the cities and natural increase. The research on u...

Pakistan has used agencies as an important tool of development since its inception on 14 August 1947 as an independent country after the end of British Raj in the Indian subcontinent. However, agencies created and reorganized after 1980 reflect a new trend. The number and types of agencies created during 63 years of history have been influenced by...

The role of women worldwide is undergoing a dramatic change as women today share the spotlight with men in almost all fields.About 15% of the government ministers are women in all 192 countries in the world compared with 11.7% in 1997.In 20 countries, constituting less than 10%, there are women heads of the states. These trends are also reflected i...

Tenure track system (TTS) was introduced in higher education institutions of Pakistan in 2002 as part of administrative reforms. The main objectives of the reform were to improve performance of higher education in the country through attracting qualified people and improving performance of academic faculty of higher education institutions particula...

The paper is a first ever contribution to literature in organizational change quoting evidence from export sector of Pakistan. It determines the role of CEO commitment in developing organizational potential for innovation and change. It is based on data acquired from 351 respondents from top managerial positions, representing 21 manufacturing organ...

This paper discusses the critical issue of gender equity and governance in Pakistan using Leventhal's concept of equity and organizational justice. Since both distributive and procedural justice are interrelated concepts, they should be considered important in the analysis of the issue. The paper reviews trends and significance of gender participat...

Women's participation in governance is extremely important for an even human resource development, poverty alleviation and good governance. In, Pakistan, a concerted and collaborated effort has been made in this regard by providing women 33% representation in local governance through the current local government ordinance, 2000. However, the tradit...