Managerial Guidelines for Project Funded by NGOs in Security Prone Areas of Pakistan

Abstract

One of the aspects which help project managers to achieve success for project is preparing safe and secure workplace environment for employees. Employee safety and security is the most important for those organizations that is working in an environment that has safety issues. Therefore, the research aim is to understand the important factors that have impacts on management of NGO projects safer and explore the relationship of employee role and project nature with security issues. According to past literatures, safety issues are not limited to Pakistan while other countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria etc are also struggling with it. People roles, project nature, gender, development of technology, conflicts inside the organization and so on are known as the most important factors in this area. 8 interviews were conducted from the employees who are working in security prone areas. Participants were selected from different roles, project and gender to compare the outcomes and find the link between these variables. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the respondent answers which is one of the proper data analysis method for qualitative data. Based on the research findings security aspects can be divided into three categories which are internal issues, external issues from public side and external issues from extremist’s organization side. A direct link exists between project nature and employee role with level of security issues. Indeed, projects that contain more interaction with public have high risk of safety. In conclusion four recommendations are offered to provide NGO’s to improve employee security aspects such as: (a) Pay attention to proper distribution of power among employees, (b) Pay attention to female co-workers and their safety in organization, (c) Improve communication with external stakeholders and (d) Improve protection of employees and organization from extremist organizations.