an opportunity to scholars

from around the globe to

share the latest develop-

ments in the field of Islamic

finance. The theme of this

Conference was “Islamic

Finance: A Viable Financial

Alternative”. This forum

provided a platform to lead-

ing industry players, aca-

demics and researchers to

address key factors around

achieving scale through

novelty to strengthen Is-

lamic financial institutions.

Department of Manage-

ment Science, Center of

Islamic Finance, COM-

SATS Institute of Infor-

mation Technology (CIIT)

Lahore, proudly hosted the

third Global Forum on Is-

lamic Finance (GFIF), af-

ter successfully organizing

two earlier events. GFIF

provides a platform to

scholars and experts from

all over the world to share

new ideas on Islamic fi-

nance and related fields. It

also acts as a medium for

all participants to quench

their desire to be ac-

quainted with the current

trends and practices of Is-

lamic finance.

The GFIF 2015 hosted

by COMSATS Institute

of Information Technol-

ogy Lahore, Pakistan

was aimed at providing

The worthy Rector

COMSATS Presenting

Shield to the Governor SBP

at GFIF 2015.

Global Forum on Islamic Finance (GFIF)

Women empower-

ment & leadership

workshop

1

Training on Lead-

ership & Change

Management

2

Hassan Kamran

The National

Swimming

Champion

2

CSR Activities 2

Facilitation for

CIMA Certification

3

Seminar, Work-

shops & Trainings

4

First PhD of CIIT

Lahore by MS

Department

5

New Joining 6

Publications 7

Department of

Management Sciences N E W S L E T T E R S P R I N G

2 0 1 5

C O M S A T S I N S T I T U T E

O F I N F O R M A T I O N

T E C H N O L O G Y L A H O R E

3 R D G L O B A L

F O R U M

O N

I S L A M I C

F I N A N C E :

COMSATS Institute of

Information Technology

(CIIT) Lahore, proudly

hosted the third Global

Forum on Islamic Finance

(GFIF),

I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

ulty of the department

was member of almost all

the organizing commit-

tees of the event.

Prof. Dr. Talat Afza, pro-

fessor of Finance & Eco-

nomics, Department of

Management Sciences

and Head Academics &

Research CIIT Lahore has

steered WEL, which

proved to be a very suc-

cessful event. Female fac-

Women Empowerment & Leadership (WEL) Workshop

P A G E 2

Grand Swimming Victory

Social Responsibility Initiative Safe Motorcycle Riding Program-Session

Training on Leadership & Change Management by HEC

Dr Abdus Sattar

Abbasi, Head Depart-

ment of Management

Sciences, successfully

participated in HEC

training program

“Leadership and

Change Management”

on March 24-27, 2015

under HEC’s Tertiary

Education Support

Program.

The Higher Education

Commission, Islama-

bad in collaboration

with the Institute of

Management Sci-

ences, Peshawar has

launched training pro-

grams for Vice Chan-

cellors, Registrars,

Heads of Teaching

Departments and re-

lated staff of (36) uni-

versities / Higher Edu-

cational Institutes lo-

cated in the KPK,

AJK, Gilgit Baltistan,

Rawalpindi and Is-

lamabad. Earlier, the

Chairman of the

Higher Education

Commission, Dr.

Mukhtar Ahmad inau-

gurated the program

on March 09, 2015.

Sciences, COMSATS

conducted a seminar

on safe motorbike rid-

ing under the supervi-

sion of Muhamamd

Shomail Sarwar

(Lecturer, Department

of Management Sci-

ences) in collaboration

Motorcycle

safety concerns

many aspects of

vehicle and

equipment de-

sign.For this very

useful purpose,

Department of

Management

with Pakistan Bikers

Club and Diamond

tyres Ltd (Sponsor for

this event) for our

youth. This lecture

based seminar, which

was delivered by Mu-

hammad Zahid Malik

from Pakistan Bikers

Club.

competition. Hasan

Kamran, student of

Management Sciences

department (BBA) at

CIIT Lahore Campus

was the member of

HEC swimming team

and got Silver medal

in 50 meter Butterfly

event. This is the sin-

gle medal HEC won

out of 19 events.

The department pre-

sents heartiest con-

gratulations to Hassan

on this success and

feels proud on valu-

able contribution.

53rd National Swim-

ming Championship

was organized at

WAPDA Sports Com-

plex (10-12 April,

2015). Army,

WAPDA, Railways,

Air Force, Navy, Pun-

jab, Sindh, KPK, HEC

and many other teams

participated in the said

HoD Dr.

Abbasi giving

away helmets

to stuents

D E P A R T M E N T O F M A N A G E M E N T

S C I E N C E S

Study Tour to Nestle

P A G E 3

C O M S A T S I N S T I T U T E O F

I N F O R M A T I O N T E C H N O L O G Y

A study tour to Nestlé

was organized by Syed

Nauman Ahmad, Assis-

tant Professor, on May

12, 2015 for the students

of FA13-BBA-A. The

production facility is lo-

cated at 29 KM, Lahore-

Sheikupura Road, Sheiku-

pura which is among the

Nestlé’s top five produc-

tion facilities in the whole

world.

Nestlé plant management

presented company’s pro-

file, achievements, CSV

projects and operational

activities in an impressive

way. Later on, the stu-

dents were taken to the

production units of pow-

der milk, liquid milk and

fruit juices.

The tour provided an ex-

cellent opportunity for the

students to learn about

Nestlé’s management,

production procedures

and quality assurance

sional body of manage-

ment accountants.

CIMA’s mission is to

help people and busi-

nesses to succeed in the

public and private sectors.

They have more than

227,000 members and

students in 179 countries.

Mr. Usman (CIMA Rep-

resentative) visited the

Department to register the

undergraduate students

for CIMA certification.

48 students showed their

interest and took the reg-

istration form.

CIMA is the world’s larg-

est and leading profes-

Students with Nestle staff at

their production facility.

Registration for CIMA Certification

Lahore Chapter of The Indus

Entrepreneurs (TiE) in an effort

of pursuing its mission of pro-

moting conscious entrepreneur-

ship has launched its first

TiE4Youth Club in COMSATS

Institute of Information Tech-

nology, Lahore.

"Entrepreneurship: Local Myths & Realities" organized by COMSATS TiE4Youth Club

P A G E 4

Mr. Fawad address-

ing the students

A Seminar on Consumer Behavior & Integrated Marketing Communication BY Faisal Wahab Corporate Trainer Mobilink Pakistan

200 Cumulative Impact Factor

An Interactive session with Mr. Zakria Fawad, Account Director at Red Communications

In order to give a real

time flavor of happen-

ings in corporate sec-

tor to our students,

Mr. Kashif Mahmood

arranged an interactive

session with Mr. Zak-

ria Fawad, Account

Director at Red Com-

munications for

Waridtel , was organ-

ized on 28th of May

2015.

It was an informative

and learning experi-

ence for the students.

Mr. Mahmood

thanked the Depart-

ment of management

sciences for all the in

house support.

200 cumulative impact

factor based on his

research publications

which appeared in the

prestigious interna-

tional research jour-

nals. He thanked CIIT

management for the

Dr. Muhammad

Shahbaz, Assistant

Professor Energy

Research Center,

has achieved the

milestone of

continuous encourage-

ment and motivation.

tion students in semi-

nar room A-block.

The speaker Mr.

Faisal Wahab, who is

working as a Corpo-

rate Trainer at Mo-

bilink Pakistan, dis-

cussed the importance

of understanding con-

sumers and designing

integrated marketing

communication strate-

gies.

Marketing is the need

of every business and

consumers makes the

business a success. To

combine these two

major success factors

an interactive seminar

was arranged for the

marketing specializa-

An unprecedented

Achieved

D E P A R T M E N T O F M A N A G E M E N T

Brand Exhibition

P A G E 5

C O M S A T S I N S T I T U T E

O F I N F O R M A T I O N

A Brand Exhibition was

conducted on June 09,

2015 by SP13-

MBT students

under the su-

pervision of

Mrs. Tahira

Umair. This

memorable

event was or-

ganized under the um-

brella of COMSATS

Marketing Club (CMC) at

COMSATS Institute of

Information Technology,

Lahore.

It was inaugurated by re-

spected Head of Depart-

ment of Management Sci-

ences Dr. Abdul Sattar

Abbasi with other faculty

members of the depart-

ment. The program

started at 9 A.M and con-

tinued till 4 P.M for the

students, faculty and

staff.

Ali Asghar defended his

PhD thesis publically.

The public defense was

Before the evaluation by

the committee, Dr. Mu-

hammad Jam-e-Kausar

attended by faculty and students

of the Department of Manage-

ment Sciences, Lahore.

the following evaluation

committee members:

Dr. Muhammad Ehsan

Malik, Examiner

Dr. Abdul Qayyum, Ex-

aminer

Dr. Talat Afza, Supervi-

sor and Chairperson

Department of Man-

agement Sciences

Dr. Abdus Sattar Abbasi,

Head Department of

Management Sciences

Dr. Qaisar Abbas, Dean Fac-

ulty of Business Admini-

stration.

Mr. Muhammad Jam-e-

Kausar Ali Asghar, Reg-

istration No CIIT/SP10-

PMS-002/LHR, under the

supervision of Prof. Dr.

Talat Afza successfully

defended his PhD thesis

titled “Efficiency Analy-

sis of Financial Institu-

tions in Pakistan” before

HoD along

with the

Faculty

inaugurat-

ing the

exhibition

First PhD of COMSATS Lahore Produced by Department of Management Sciences

Audience at PHD Defense

Dr. Qaisar Abbas, Dean

Faculty of Business

Administration / Convener

Department of manage-

ment sciences is working

to produce more quality

PhDs in near future.

Mr. Rizwan Qaiser Danish, Registra-

tion No CIIT/SP09-PMS-002/LHR,

under the supervision of Prof. Dr.

Mahmood A. Bodla successfully de-

fended his PhD thesis titled

“Perceptions of Organizational Poli-

tics and Employees’ Performance;

An Integrative Model of Pakistani

Work Sites” before the following

evaluation committee members:

Dr. Rukhsana Kalim, Examiner

Dr. Hafeez-ur-Rehman, Exam-

iner

Dr. Mahmood A. Bodla, Supervi-

sor

Dr. Talat Afza, Chairperson De-

partment of Management Sci-

ences

Dr. Abdus Sattar Abbasi, Head

Department of Management

Sciences

PhD Management Defense

http://www.ciitlahore.edu.pk/

1.5 KM Defence Rd, off Raiwind Rd,

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Editorial Team:

Muhammad Bilal Javed (Lecturer)

Muhammad Ahmad (Lecturer)

Ms. Namrah Ashraf (Lecturer)

Institute of Information Technology

Lahore

New Joining Ms. Amina Hameed holds MS degree in Management Sciences and BS degree in IT from

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan. She joined Department

of Management Sciences CIIT Abbottabad as a lecturer in 2009. After six years of immaculate

service, she joined Department of Management Sciences CIIT Lahore in 2015.

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Departmental Publications-1st Quarter

D E P A R T M E N T O F M A N A G E M E N T

P A G E 7

Departmental Publications-2nd Quarter

P A G E 8

D E P A R T M E N T O F M A N A G E M E N T