User:Muzaphershah

Muzafar Shah was born and brought up in Kashmir. He did his school education in a Government school and later on completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology and Management from Utkal University. He joined City College, Bangalore for pursuit of MBA in Human Resources Management and Marketing. In 2006 he started working in Khyber Industries and 2008 he joined PeopleStrong HR Services pvt. Ltd. However, he was interested in conducting research on various fields of Business and Information Technology and therefore decided to pursue research degrees in the Business School, University of Kashmir. On 2nd January, 2012 he joined in the University of Kashmir on a non-teaching position but kept on conducting the research because he wanted to make the best use of technical expertise in logic development & data analysis in a research based career; hence to acquire and apply advanced knowledge in Applied Sciences and Business Administration. Presently, he is an active member of the Research & Development team of the advocacy group for Islamic Banking in Jammu and Kashmir. He has recently started working with Chegg India as a Managed Network Expert in Computer Science on freelancing basis

Apart from the research, some of his administrative contributions are development of organizational structure, creation of new pay scales, compensation packages and fringe benefits, recruitment of most intelligent and qualified professionals from different parts of India, like first class Mines Manager and Chemical Engineers, creation of job description for all professional and nonprofessional categories, at Khyber Industries Pvt. Ltd. In PeopleStrong HR Services Pvt. Ltd. he was handling payroll help desk of seven companies which include HeadStrong formerly known as TechSpan India Pvt. Ltd. where he used to resolve more than 100 queries regarding salary, provident fund and taxation, in a single day. Pertinently he ensured that none of the queries was escalated to his superiors for want of resolution. Moreover, he used to provide expert advise on tax savings and investments to the employees of seven companies including Quatro and Larsen & Turbo. In the University of Kashmir, he facilitated and supervised the events of national repute among which some of the prominent are: 18th Convocation of the University of Kashmir which was presided over by Shri Pranab Mukherjee, President of India (2012), An event for Empowerment of Women and Panchayats which was organized by Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi and presided over by Dr. Farooq Abdullah, the then Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Government of India (2013), International Conference on Operations Research for Data Analysis and Decision Analysis which was organized by Department of Statistics, University of Kashmir and presided over by Mr. Shashi Tharoor, the then HRD Minister, Govt. of India (2013), and facilitation of Parliamentary Committee on Human Resources Development, which was presided by the Chief Justice of India, Mr. Justice Altamush Kabeer (2013).

He has submitted four dissertations on e-Tourism, attitudes, and organizational performance in the discipline of Management. Moreover, he has worked as an active member of the teams for developing various software projects. The prominent software applications are: Text Editor (using VB 6.0), Point-of-sales, Digital library, and Inventory Management.

His major credentials in the area of research in Management are:

Global Impact of e-Tourism: A case study. International Management Development Association, 22nd World Congress. Transnational Journal of Management. Taylor and Francis Group. Washington DC, USA 2013. Embracing Web 2.0 technology: A conceptual framework. Two- day International conference on Contemporary issues in Business, Management and Finance (CIBMF-II, 2013). Kashmir University, 28-29 September, 2013 Electronic Marketing and Tourism services-An evaluation framework. The Business review. University of Kashmir, 2013. ISSN 0972-8384. A case study on employees’ attitudes towards reward system in teaching industry. Acme Intellects International Journal of Research in Management, Social Sciences & Technology. January, 2014. ISSN 2320-2939 A case study on Job Satisfaction in Kashmir University. Acme Intellects International Journal of Research in Management, Social Sciences & Technology. January, 2013. ISSN 2320-2939 Diffusion of internet technology in tourism sector: An empirical study. Transnational Journal of Management. Taylor and Francis Group. Washington DC, 2014. ISSN 1547-5786 (2013) Paper presented and published titled as, “Design of Web 2.0 Technology Websites in Tourism Industry in India: Conceptual Framework, Empirical Study, and Implications for International Marketing,” at CIMaR ( Consortium for International Marketing Research) June, 2014 Conference, PETER B.GUSTAVSON, School of Business, University of Victoria, BC, Canada. Paper presented titled as, “The Computerized Communication and World Wide Web” at UGC sponsored National Seminar on Electronic Devices, Systems and Information Security (SEEDS Conference) in March, 2016, Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K. An Assessment of Web 2.0 architecture in Tourism Industry. International Journal in Management and Social Science, November 2016. ISSN: 2321-1784, Impact Factor 6.178. The Impact of Indian and Saudi Consumers on Western Products: A Critical Analysis. International Journal in Management and Social Science, January, 2017. ISSN: 2321-1784.