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FIFTH CONVENTION - 1987
The Fifth Convention was held in karachi on April 21 and 22, 1987. Its theme was: "The Development of Management in Pakistan". The Convention was inaugurated by Mr. Aftab Ahmad Khan, the then Chairman, National Development Finance Corporation.
The theme of the Convention was selected because it was felt that management is the single most crucial factor in the development of the economy in any country.
The aim at this Convention was to critically appraise the progress of development in the field of management in Pakistan after four decades of its establishment. This would also help to develop an insight into what kind of managerial synthesis is needed for our talent-rich but resource-poor country now and in the years to come.
With this aim in view the topics selected for discussion were:
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- BUSINESS EDUCATION AND MANAGEMENT TRAINING
- PRODUCTIVITY AND OPTIMISATION OF FESOURCES
- THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC SECTOR ENTERPRISES
- THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGEMENT IN PAKISTAN
- THE ROLE OF MANPOWER IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOCIETY
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Convention 1987: Mr. S. Qureshi (President MAP) welcoming the Chief Guest. On the dias from left: Mr. S.M. Naqi, Mr. N.A. Jafarey, Mr. Aftab Ahmad Khan (Chief Guest), Mr. Zahid Zaheer, Mr. Khalid Rafi and Mr. Yousuf Ahmed. |
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The proceedings of this Convention also has been condensed in the form of a book available for reference at the Association’s library at Karachi.
During the working session and as a result of the discussions both by the official discussants and members of the participating audience the following important points were brought out for consideration:
- Pakistani situations in management cases should be developed and used for making business school curriculum relevant.
- Business schools should develop individuals in sector based degree curriculum, and the Pakistan Administrative Staff College and NIPA should become degree awarding institutes for middle career officers.
- The private sector should co-operate with educational institutes by setting up endowments and the government should provide tax relief to encourage such efforts.
- Emphasis should be laid on the type of primary education so as to produce the kind of talent which is needed for advanced education
- All large orgaizations should establish production service departments which will be responsible for advising managers as to how they may reduce the input of the resources they need to create their prescribed output.
- A National Productivity Council should be established in Pakistan
- The government having no national personnel policy for public enterprises, the majority of public enterprise managers are unsuitable by their background a specialist cadre should, therefore, be created with the necessary complements of proper and continued training in career planning.
- Precise and tangible criteria should be enforced and should take the form of concurrent performance evaluation by a single agency manned by qualified experts. Public enterprises should be given cut and dry aims in performance goals and both the resources and operational freedom to achieve these aims.
- Active interference in the day to day matters by the administrators leads to confusion as well as delay in decision making and also provides to public enterprise managers a ready made alibli for poor performance. The government’s role in relation to public enterprises should be strictly confined to policy directives only.
- The existing adverse relationship between the bureaucrats and the entrepreneurs impairs the economic environment and should be defused.
A cross fertilization of ideas in the public and the private sectors should be encouraged so that entrepreneurs are inducted into the government.
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