Management of Change

Creation of a New Organizational Dynamic

The Chief Executive of TDAP and Minister of State, Mr. Tariq Ikram has been charged with the responsibility of managing the transformation of the Export Promotion Bureau into the successor organization of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan. He will be assisted by a team of senior executives from the erstwhile EPB and the newly inducted Executive Directors appointed within the TDAP as the Change Management Team (CMT). The CMT will be assisted by world class, internationally known, independent consultants, specializing in Organizational Development and Human Resource Management to provide advice and direction in the formulation of TDAP.

The Organizational Development Consultants will assist the CMT to re-visit and establish the Vision, Mission, Strategy, Organogram, Key Processes, Critical Success Factors, and Key Performance Indicators for TDAP. They will also complete mapping, reengineering and documentation of processes, related to policy, training support, besides audio/visual material for embedding processes and including any fine-tuning and realignment, where necessary.
The HR Management Consultant will assist with all aspects of HR Management with the creation and functioning of the new organization of the TDAP. The HR Management exercise  will include development and design of the HR Policies, procedures and processes, role profiles and job descriptions, compensation and benefits structure, performance management mechanisms, employee relations management tools besides career and succession planning, identification of needs and training staff as part of the overall assignment.

A staff of nearly 1000 public servants and contractual employees have managed the day to day business of EPB through its head office in Karachi, and 13 regional offices in the country along with the Commercial Officers posted in Pakistan Missions abroad. Dedication and commitment of these devoted employees have, over the last four decades, helped the Bureau to contribute to Pakistan by achieving increasingly stiff targets and becoming ‘Partners in Prosperity’ of its people.

TDAP as part of its transformation journey will rely on the experience and expertise of as many as possible of these dedicated employees, backed by intensive training, development and empowerment, to be successful in its mission. The team will be supplemented by new personnel inducted to bring in specialized skills, technology, innovation, business culture and to provide consistency and institutional learning to the organizational efforts. TDAP will motivate, train and empower all the members of the team, and provide the environment where they can release their creative energy and perform to the best of their abilities. They will help give life to the new environment and help achieve a new level of organizational energy, resolve and enthusiasm to meet the challenges of a quantum leap in exports.

This intensive process of transforming EPB into TDAP is expected to take between 18-24 months when the TDAP is expected to have seamlessly succeeded the Export Promotion Bureau in 2008; forty-five years after its coming into being.