Article on National Productivity Organization (NPO), Pakistan

National Productivity Organization (NPO) is one of the very rare governmental organizations of Pakistan found with the vision of developing the private and public sector of the economy. As Operations Management is getting hype in the world, our government has come up with a very brilliant idea of assuring quality and productivity in our country’s manufacturing and service sector. In this regards NPO Pakistan has been incorporated under the Company Ordinance 2006 with the aim of enhancing productivity and implementation of productivity concepts in the Industrial setup. Their Liaison with Asian Productivity Organization (APO) Tokyo Japan speaks of the organization’s aim in promoting productivity in the public and private sector industries.

Global competitiveness creation through the formulation of enabling environment and introduction of programs that enhance productivity is the core of NPO’s vision and mission statement. With the objectives of improving the Pakistani Industry productivity wise, value addition through informative sessions on productivity and quality improvement, and compliance of industrial sector with international best practice, NPO has a serious and worthwhile job to do. The foundation to their objectives lie in the formation of knowledge based society with the help of training, system development and best practice.

Measurement of productivity of various sectors and inculcation of productivity and quality for policy formulation and national economy is an objective that alone can strengthen the current economic conditions of our country. Research works in this regards has benefits academically and practically; as students will get to analyze their own industrial sector meanwhile improving it.

Last but not the least, representation of Pakistan in APO is not just an objective to avail multitude benefits as a founder member but also a means of putting forward the better image of Pakistan.

Along with national partnership, NPO Pakistan has a wide range of networking with international institution which affirms the organizations importance and intentions for promoting productivity. Noteworthy is the list of many educational institutions of our country in the network category (and I wonder why our university is not included being the first institution in Pakistan to offer Operations Management as a field of specialization at Bachelors level). This as discussed earlier must be effective means of achieving the organizations overall objectives. ***
By: Zahir Shah

www.npo.gov.pk
*** The article is based on the official website of NPO www.npo.gov.pk. This article was originally written for academic reasons.

The Catastrophic event and the Disastrous weakness!

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The recent catastrophic event of January 04, 2010 in Attabad Hunza and the aftermath has lately triggered my mind to reflect upon the working of various governmental and NGOs in the affected areas. Although sitting in Lahore and driving conclusions about the activities in Hunza is a very naive approach, nevertheless the aim of this scrap is to point out a very common issue regarding the work of organizations any where in our country.

After every thing had happened in Hunza, we saw a response from the government and NGOs working in Gilgit-Baltistan, FOCUS Humanitarian to name the major NGO. Here the point to note was the aggressive attitude of the people against the government, even after it keeps on putting in effort. People demonstrated against the government in Hunza, Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi and it has not stopped yet. Their major demand is the effective intervention of the government in the rescue operation in Gojal and, Hunza.

Let us suppose that the government is doing its best as the authorities have been claiming so, then why do the people stand unsatisfied? This signals a loop hole in the coordination between our institutions working in Hunza. The FWO, Pak-Army , Focus Humanitarian need to have such a strong liaison that each provide a back-up to another and serve the people even better.

The event being a natural disaster was unstoppable, but the disaster being caused by lack of proper communication and coordination among the various rescue institutions can be stopped immediately.

Note: It is based on the few minutes of discussion in one of my sociology classes when I raised the issue.

Dilemma

My destiny is in the hands of God… this leaves me with two options; firstly, I am sincere with my life. That is to say with what ever I do is done with pure intentions, with sincerity and with an intention of approaching towards the Ultimate Truth, for what Lord has chosen me. Secondly, it leaves me with an ambiguous life. A life guided by the waves of time, the wind gives me direction of its own will over the crust and trough of the ocean of life.

I don’t know whether I face this dilemma or others too have such situations. There is a feeling of emptiness in my life. Sometimes it is filled with hope, certainty, vision, and wisdom (to a level that no other person might see it) and mostly there is the peculiar state of uselessness. A condition where I know I am doing everything with due diligence, yet my inner voice calls for certain reforms. It appeals to me to do things that I know are of my interest. But, my own activities, daily routine etc. keep me away from it. The state of too much doubt, fear, emptiness and weakness is covered by the prayer and religious practice, but the curiosity doesn’t vanish. Rather it gets stronger and deeper…

Now, here is what I can propose for my self as an observer… you are not taking effective decisions as you progress in life, thus it creates a state of ambiguity and restlessness. Try to discover your inner self; that part which has a skill of its own and which can survive even if the world dies…

You are too suspicious of your life; take a breath and do what is on hand. Your concern shows you are well aware of what you are doing, and you have chosen the right things with farsightedness. The only thing you need to do is stop worrying. That’s the remedy to your simple query.

You are absolutely on the right track, you do your religious practice, you take responsibilities, and you are not static and keep moving towards a satisfaction post. Only one thing is required, and that is following your passion, which will make things a bit simple.

The list goes on….

Please don’t start thinking, it was random.