A R Kausar is a well known Pakistani Professor of Knowledge Management.

Early life

Dr. Kausar was born in Punjab, Pakistan

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

. He enrolled at Karachi University

University of Karachi

The University of Karachi is a public university located in Karachi, Pakistan. It serves an on-campus student population of more than 24,000. According to the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, it is ranked among the top three universities of the country...

 in 1970, and completed Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...

 (Hons) with first position and very good grades. Thereafter, Dr. Kausar was awarded assistantship from Michigan State University

Michigan State University

Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...

, USA in 1973 for PhD. He earned his PhD in 1978. Later, He became a Certified Quality Lead Auditor from BSI, UK. He has also attended professional faculty development

Faculty development

Faculty development is a similarly used term to staff development and professional development, in settings that pertain to educators ....

 courses at MIT(USA), at NUS/NTU(Singapore) and has also participated in Master Class

Master class

A master class is a class given to students of a particular discipline by an expert of that discipline—usually music, but also painting, drama, or any of the arts....

 on Knowledge Management

Knowledge management

Knowledge management comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences...

 led by Prof Sveiby in Sydney, Australia

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

.

Professional life

Dr. Kausar's teaching, training and learning interests are in development of Tacit and Explicit Knowledge

Explicit knowledge

Explicit knowledge is knowledge that has been or can be articulated, codified, and stored in certain media. It can be readily transmitted to others. The information contained in encyclopedias are good examples of explicit knowledge....

 Based Systems, Kmunity Systems, Virtual Professional Development

Professional development

Professional development refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. Professional development encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities, ranging from college degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning...

 System, and Leading / Managing the Arts and Science of Knowledge Based Work. Dr. Kausar is a world class trainer in inspiring Knowledge Workers

Knowledge worker

Knowledge workers in today's workforce are individuals who are valued for their ability to act and communicate with knowledge within a specific subject area. They will often advance the overall understanding of that subject through focused analysis, design and/or development. They use research...

.(Won't let audience fall a sleep).

Prior to joining University of Management and Technology

University of Management and Technology

The University of Management and Technology is a modern private-sector university located in Lahore, Pakistan. UMT is a government-chartered university and is recognized by the Higher Education Commission and Pakistan Engineering Council . UMT is a project of ILM Trust...

 (UMT), as a Dean of Business School, Dr. Kausar has been the Founding Director, Center for Emerging Sciences at University of the Punjab

University of the Punjab

University of the Punjab , colloquially known as Punjab University, is located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The University of the Punjab is the oldest and biggest University of Pakistan. The University of the Punjab was formally established with the convening of the first meeting of its...

, Lahore.At UMT, he serves now as Pro-Rector of the university. Dr. Kausar is also an adviser of Human Capital Development at a CMMI Level 5 ICT company in Pakistan.

As a Dean Dr. Kausar successfully negotiated for educational development programs and research collaborations with Multimedia University

Multimedia University

Multimedia University is Malaysia's first private university. It has two campuses with one in Cyberjaya and another in Melaka. The distance between the two campuses are approximately 150 kilometers, via the North South Expressway.-History:...

 (Malaysia), IESE (Spain),University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) and Eastern Michigan University

Eastern Michigan University

Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...

 (USA). He has participated in many national and international conferences. UMT was also represented by Dr Kausar through his invited presentation in 7th ASHRM Conference on Innovation as the Powerful Engine of Human Resources

Human resources

Human resources is a term used to describe the individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labor economics to, for example, business sectors or even whole nations...

 in Dubai, UAE

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

 and through conducting one day workshop on Cross Cultural Negotiations at University Utara, Malaysia.

Dr Kausar has been publishing in Journal of Knowledge Management

Journal of Knowledge Management

The Journal of Knowledge Management is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal publishing original research, technical discussions, and case studies on knowledge management. It is indexed in Information Sciences Abstracts, Inspec, and Scopus...

. He has been teaching to MBA classes, the courses on Knowledge Management, Organization Behavior

Organizational studies

Organizational studies, sometimes known as organizational science, encompass the systematic study and careful application of knowledge about how people act within organizations...

 and Business Intelligence

Business intelligence

Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....

. His recent research is in areas of Human Capital Management

Human resource management

Human Resource Management is the management of an organization's employees. While human resource management is sometimes referred to as a "soft" management skill, effective practice within an organization requires a strategic focus to ensure that people resources can facilitate the achievement of...

 and Intellectual Capital

Intellectual capital

The value of an enterprise is made of physical assets, various financial assets and, finally, intangible assets, i.e., intellectual capital . The term intellectual capital conventionally refers to the difference in value between tangible assets and market value. ....

. Dr. Kausar has also got video recorded (135 hours) courses on Management ( General, Quality and Knowledge) for BBA and MBA students of Virtual University

Distance education

Distance education or distance learning is a field of education that focuses on teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching, often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting such as a classroom...

at Pakistan.

Publications

• A. Rashid Kausar, David Paul, Ahmad Raza (2007), "The social management of embodied knowledge in a knowledge community", Journal of Knowledge Management; Volume: 11 Issue: 5
• A. Rashid Kausar, Ahmad Raza, David Paul (2007),"The social democratization of knowledge: some critical reflections on e-learning", Multicultural Education & Technology Journal; Volume: 1 Issue: 1;
• A. Rashid Kausar, Ahmad Raza, David Paul (2006), "Culture, cognition and knowledge-based development", Journal of Knowledge Management; Volume: 10 Issue: 5