Client Name

K Flex (Pvt.) Ltd.

Faculty Advisor

Ms. Annie Ahmad

SBS Thought Leadership Areas

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

SBS Thought Leadership Area Justification

Though the human resource management, policy writing, and onboarding matrices are viewed

through the lens of the strictly corporate, administrative lens, the implementation of the

frameworks in the scaling legacy company is an entrepreneurial and innovative process in itself.

Innovation does not solely concern the design or technology of the products, but also so-called

administrative innovation, the reorganization of internal processes of an enterprise, which opens

new opportunities and allows it to develop in a sustainable way. In the case of an organization

such as K Flex which has been in a position to expand its production capacity since 1957, yet

which has informal human capital pipelines, radical cultural and administrative change is needed

to facilitate the shift to a more institutionalized system.

Aligned SDGs

GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Aligned SDGs Justification

Modernization of the production equipment cannot be the foundation of sustainable development

of an industrial economy; it should be accompanied by the simultaneous investment in the

organization systems of the human factor. The informal employment practices in the

manufacturing sector in Pakistan are more likely to subject the workers to unorganized working

6conditions where expectations are not clearly spelt out, job specifications are not written and

performance is dealt with on a case by case basis. The current project is closely connected to

SDG 8 Target 8.5 that aims at ensuring that all women and all men are safely and gainfully

employed and have decent work and have access to industrial work that is secure and merit-

based.

NDA

No

Abstract

The shift of the traditional industrial companies in Pakistan towards formalized corporate forms,

out of the centralized, family-run operations, is a pivotal step towards the survival and growth in

the long term in the modern macroeconomic environment of the country. This Experiential

Learning Project (ELP) is specifically aimed at the transition and is known as Enhancing HR

Recruitment and Onboarding Frameworks in K Flex (Pvt.) Ltd. K Flex (Pvt.) Ltd. is an established

company that produces flexible packaging solutions and its history dates back to its inception in

1957. The company operates a large production plant in A-70 S.I.T.E Area, Karachi that is involved

in bulk production of precision conversion of polymers into specialized products, such as High-

Density Polyethylene (HDPE), Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE), Polypropylene (PP/BOPP),

and Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) shrink solutions. Throughout the decades, K Flex has been able to

constantly incorporate the latest machinery and develop a highly qualified technical staff to protect

its market share in a very competitive industrial industry.

The pace at which the manufacturing business of K Flex has so far grown to give it more than 500

employees has essentially been quicker than the maturity of its administrative and human

resource system. Previously, the firm had an ad-hoc and relationship based human capital

management. This relational model has been a cause of unbearable inefficiencies to the

enterprise level of the company despite giving an operational flexibility to the small-scale decades

of the company.

Document Type

Restricted Access

Document Name for Citation

Experiential Learning Project

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