Management Project On Mobilink
Management Project On Mobilink
MANAGEMENT
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PROJECT REPORT OF PRINCIPAL’S OF
MANAGEMENT
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Introduction To Company
1. Brief History:
In Pakistan, the Pakistan Mobile communications Ltd (“Mobilink”) started its operations in
1994 and, until early 2001, had a market share of 40%. In April 2001, OTH took over
management control of the company. As the market leader, Mobilink serves more than 31.5
million subscribers, representing a market share of 38.5% (as of March 2008).
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Mobilink has successfully achieved a record subscriber growth of 40 % in 2007 and
with over 6000 cell sites, has coverage in over 7,000 cities, towns, and villages,
through out Pakistan. International roaming is available in over 127 countries with
more than 300 partner operators, and the company’s investment to date, is over US
$2.5 billion. It directly employs over 4,500 people, and facilitated through an
integrated technology infrastructure, has the largest distribution network of over
200,000 retail outlets across Pakistan. The company is a carrier-class nationwide
connecting service with its 6,500 kilometers fiber optic backbone, and is leading the
Mobile Commerce revolution with its first lifestyle application,
Genie which enables customers to pay utility, telephone bills and top-up prepaid
credit through their mobile phones.
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Through The Mobilink Foundation, the company’s corporate social responsibility
program contributes significantly in the areas of health and education.
The company is also the official cellular service of the Pakistan Cricket Board
and the leading Blackberry communication services provider in Pakistan.
The Mobilink team is dedicatedly working each day to connect the unconnected and
achieve milestones that make history. Each Mobilink moment entails a new
challenge, a new moment of happiness, a new sense of achievement and a new
success.
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Principal area of Business:
Mobilink have two products
Jazz
Indigo
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Mobilink Latest Offers:
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1.1 Ownership Structure:
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Vice President & Head of Broadband Business Division.
Naeem Zamindar
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1.2 Head Office Location:
The head office of Mobilink is located at KULSUM Plaza, blue area, Islamabad.
Branch Offices:
Its branch offices are located in Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad, Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur,
Peshwar, Quetta, Swat, and Kohat. Moblink has three main contact centers in three regions of
Pakistan.
(Total 4500)
Top Managers 75
(Total 47)
Director 01
Vise President 04
Middle Managers 16
Line Managers 26
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1.3 Head of Administration Department
Furqan Buchaa
HOD-Admin
Regional
Head
Manager Manager
Admin Admin
( Buildings ) (Transport)
Stationary
Ensure Transport for all designated
Building employs
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2. MISSION STATEMENT
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2.1 Mobilink’s Vision
⇒ 31+ Million Subscriber base to retain and come up with new promos
to control churn.
• Departmental Goals
⇒ Smooth operations
⇒ Cost intimation
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4. Organizational Environment:
• Internal
Mobilink’s corporate values serve as the foundation for its culture, behavioral
norms, and decision making. These values have always been at the heart of our
business principles and success.
Each of our values guides the way we work as an organization and ensures that we
not only meet the needs of our employees and stakeholders today, but work
towards sustaining and enhancing human and financial capital for the future.
These values sum up the culture at Mobilink, and aim to ensure a workplace that
necessitates open and respectful communication and exceptional quality of service
to internal and external stakeholders.
⇒ Business Excellence
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Respect for People
Our relationships drive our business. We respect and esteem our employees and all
stakeholders. We believe in teamwork, empowerment and honor.
Business Excellence
We strive for excellence in all that we do. We aspire to the highest standards and
raise the bar for ourselves everyday. This commitment to delivering world-class
quality translates into unmatched service and value for our customers and all
stakeholders.
• External
PEST Analysis of Pakistan in Telecom Industry
Political Factors
Political environment of Pakistan is stable in the current situation and country is not progressing
in terms of economic growth that was expected.
Environment is investor non-friendly & telecommunication sector is under regulation.
Economic Factors
Marketers should consider long term and short term state of a trading market
Inflation is being controlled by state bank and under strict eyes but unemployment rate is going
up & up with the increase of level of poverty
Economic instability is worsening day by day as liquidity crunch is prevailing in the world
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Socio-Cultural Factors
As Pakistan is an Islamic country and people are very strict in case of Islam any thing against the
philosophy of Islam on either print or electronic media are treated as against Pakistan.
Most of the people dislike anything extra-ordinary or something which sabotage their culture or
subculture.
Companies who are targeting upper-end of market mostly published and aired their
advertisement in English language.
In metropolitan cities women are doing work along with their other responsibilities but other
than metropolitan cities it is difficult for women to convince their parents and spouses for work.
Technological Factors
Companies have technology with which they can compete in the Pakistan and now companies are
investing in their infrastructure to not only expand but also to upgrade their existing structure.
Mobilink shifted its whole network from 900 MHz to 1800 MHz offer Value-Added Services like
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Multi-media Messaging Services (MMS) and Virtual
Private Network (VPN) etc.
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STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
Strengths
Competitive Advantages
• Mobilink’s strength lies in the establishment of a strong, fundamental and coherent long-term
business plan, designed to sustain economic challenges in the country.
• Pioneer cellular service in Pakistan to provide coverage on the M2 motorway.
• Pioneer in GSM service in Pakistan.
• With 30 million customers Mobilink is truly called the “King of cellular service providers”.
• Mobilink has the highest market share of 37 % not only in terms of number of subscribers but
also in terms of revenue.
• Large number of corporate customers use Mobilink post paid connection Indigo and Mobilink’s
Blackberry handsets.
• Mobilink and Muslim Commercial Bank have made a combined effort in order to maximize the
ease and the satisfaction of their respective customers by offering them all banking services from
their very own mobile handset.
Weaknesses of Mobilink
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Less Investment
• Although Mobilink is covering whole Pakistan but its call rates are high and network quality is
poor. These are the two major issues which brought Mobilink’s share down to 37% in 2008 from
60% in previous years.
• Fewer advertisements now days shows that Mobilink is taking out its investment from marketing
&its advertising is not active up to the mark. However if we compare it with Telenor, Zong and
Warid we’ll realize that they are heavily marketing their products.
Quality of Network
Mobilink must have planned very good network quality but the results are opposite as described
below.
• Mobilink’s network mostly remains busy in thickly populated cities such as Karachi, Lahore and
Multan so people face a lot of difficulty while trying to connect to their friends and families.
However Warid’s network provides crystal clear voice quality. So many of Mobilink’s customers
(including me) have shifted to Warid.
• Mobilink has been fined twice by Pakistan telecommunication Authority over its bad service. It
must try and emphasize on providing better services to its customers instead on concentrating
only on expansion
Opportunities of Mobilink
Developments
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• Mobilink can develop a stronger market by focusing on segments such as teenagers, adults, office
workers, girls and ladies as well as old people by offering innovative packages. These packages
could be offered keeping in view the time consideration as well as pocket of each segment. These
packages could be at low cost for teenagers and grand parents as their pocket is small but could
be little expensive for the rest.
• Through proper advertisement also Mobilink can target as many customers as it can in order to
augment and give support to its falling market share.
• Mobilink can lower its call rates, SIM charges, Mobitune charges, GPRS charges and other extra
charges in order to capture a larger market to make business difficult for rival companies. In this
way it can segment a larger market and may capture the customers of low income group as well.
Threats of Mobilink
A New Market Player, Zong
A new market player i.e. Zong is getting immense popularity among teenagers and youngster students
because of its very low call rates and attractive packages. It is expected from the mushroom growth of its
customers that it will soon capture a large market share hence if Mobilink keeps its call rates high it is
expected that a large percent of young Mobilink users will switch over to Zong
Price Wars
• Current price war among cellular service providers may reach at a position where only brand
names survive.
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• Mobilink is involved in an unreasonably restrictive trade practice, prohibited under the provisions
of MRTPO, 1970 by not allowing its blackberry subscribers to other service providers. This can
lead to legislative proceedings against Mobilink.
Concluding, it is analyzed that Mobilink has a number of strengths which could be utilized to avail the
opportunities & overcome its weaknesses. However, as threats to an organization are always external
therefore they cannot be eradicated however they could be handled efficiently to minimize the unforeseen
problems.
5. Organizational Chart:
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The organizational structure of Mobilink represents well-organized system of control
of operations as decentralization in decision making is seen. According to (personal
communication, July 29, 2008) decentralization makes the operations more
productive as employees are granted more power & autonomy so they feel
delegated with authority
6. Core Competencies:
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7. Competitive Advantages
⇒ Mobilink’s strength lies in the establishment of a strong,
fundamental and coherent long-term business plan, designed to
sustain economic challenges in the country.
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Strategy & Planning VP
Amir(ISB)
Ibrahim
(Jazz Launch)
Ja
Over all
Brand planning to
Strength maintain
market share
In MOBILINK, the activity to fill a vacancy or a new job starts with the requirement
communicated by the respective managers to the HR department. The HR department then
looks for the possibilities of internal and external recruitment.
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Mobilink’s Competitive
Environment
Economic, Political,
Demographic, Competitive and
Technological Trends
Company’s Internal
Formulation of HR
Formulation of HR policies
practices
Appraisals
% Of total numbers of
employees which can
Appraisal category Definition of category be rated in this
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category
Indicates exceptional
1.expert performance
15%
Indicated performance
that requires
improvement (i.e. meet
requirements without
3. Good 8%
initiative or
advancement)
Performance to be
improved (hardly meets
4. Basic requirements) 5%
At the manager and director level, the internal recruitment process is mostly carried out
but when managerial position is vacant and a suitable person is not available for the
desired post from with in the organization then external recruitment is carried out.
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For external recruitment in MOBILINK, the line managers are required to make a
requisition form for the job in which they have to mention their need taking in account
the budget for establishment and salaries for the position of Management, Business
Support Officers and Workers. Role profile for the specified job is also prepared
matching up the requirement and the grade of the job. Training period is also specified
on the requisition form.
The requisition form along with the role profile is sent by the line manager to the
functional director for his approval and then forwarded to HR Manager. The HR
manager confirms the availability of budgets required for establishment, salaries and
cost of advertisement for the job. After all this, the requisition form along with the job
profile and the budget forecast is sent to the HR Director for his final approval.
After approval from the HR director the HR manager and the line manager work hand in
hand to prepare job and person specifications for advertising or giving to the head
hunters.
• Leading Process
Standardization Team
Performance management is one of the most important parts of a Supervisor’s or team
leader’s job. Developing skills in performance Management is wise investments that will
help Mobilink achieve its Goals.
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Managing employee performance includes:
Communications
Establishing and maintaining effective communications with each Employee not only
requires good oral and written communications Skills, but it also includes the ability to
Setting Goals
Setting long and short-term goals with employees gives focus to Employee efforts. When
goal setting is done correctly, employees strive to accomplish those goals and feel
confident in achieving them. When goal setting is done poorly,
work does not progress as desired. Knowing how to set goals effectively is an important
part of Performance management. To do this well, supervisors need to be able to clarify
expectations and to set realistic standards and targets.
Credible measures of performance that employees understand and accept are critical for
achieving high level performance. Measuring employee accomplishments, using both
qualitative and quantitative measures, provides the information that supervisors and
employees need in order to monitor performance.
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Giving Feed Back
their performance. Supervisors should describe specific work related behavior or results
• Controlling Process
• Controlling System
Interview
Rabab Naqvi interviewed...
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1. Mr Yasir Yaseen ZSM of MOBILINK
Questioner
1. Ethics has become a major concern for management. What factors influence
ethical behavior of individual in organization?
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10.Do you think MOBILINK is one of the best institutes for talented people?
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11.Do you think MOBILINK has encouragement for deserving needy candidates?
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15.Is this one of the best management of country or best services provider of
the country or best customer services?
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17.Are the things which plays important role for Mobilink to become market
leader.
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18.Are you satisfied MOBILINK’s marketing strategies or you want to make more
changes? If yes then what?
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Board of Directors
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Bankers.
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Chairman’s Message.
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21.What are the primary factors that influence motivate and cause a customer
to purchase a MOBILINK sim?
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22.What are the various market segments and what is their average age,
financial position, gender?
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23.What are the top ten stress and fears of MOBILINK in market?
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24. What are the factors that play an important part in selecting leadership
style?
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25. Boss and leader are one and same thing. What you say?
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26. What do you think what are the leadership skills to be an effective leader?
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27. In an organization which is facing Economic & Financial constraint, how you
can keep your managers motivated?
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28. Who are the Auditors, Legal Counsels and Tax Consultants of the company?
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13. References
Mr Orangzaib Khan
Mr Zeeshan Sarwer
Mr Yasir Yaseen
Rabab Naqvi
www.mobilinkgsm.com
www.mobilinkworld.com
www.google.com
14. Bibliographies
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seaway
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