Hazem Aldabbas

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor of Management at University of Fujairah

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between organizational justice and affective commitment through the mediating role of perceived organizational support (POS). The specific mechanism through which organizational justice influences affective commitment remains unclear, specifically in relation to the public sector. Grounded in soc...

Artificial intelligence (AI) promotes more effective coping mechanisms by enhancing resilience, particularly in a professional setting and during emergencies. Improving resilience, in turn, boosts the positive effects of AI on overall well-being. The study uses a quantitative approach to examine how attitude towards AI impacts employees’ well-being...

Although many factors affect employees’ affective commitment, its relationship with distributive justice and perceived supervisor trust is significant. Many studies have investigated the relationship between distributive justice and trust, but there is limited research on the mediating role of perceived supervisor trust. This study examines the med...

This research focuses on how employees balance their engagement with their work and private life, and how this balance affects their performance in the workplace. The study conducted a survey completed by 98 employees from government, private, and non-profit organizations regarding their experiences with engagement, work-life balance, and performan...

Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become widely recognized tools for university learning worldwide and identifying the factors affecting students' academic performance has always been a major focus in both academia and practice. This study aims to develop a research model based on the Delone and McLean Information System Success Model to inves...

Purpose The aim of this study is to empirically test the relationship between caring human resource management practices (CHRMP) and employee engagement through a serial mediation effect (organizational climate of care and employee caring for the organization). In addition, this study investigates the moderating effect of caring management on the r...

This study examines shoppers’ attitudes toward online shopping in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The researchers investigate the effects of perceived benefits, trust, electronic word of mouth (e-WOM) and perceived website quality as antecedents shaping buyer attitudes. The researchers also investigated the effect of e-WOM and perceived website qua...

This study examines the economic dimensions of knowledge and innovation by investigating the connection between innovation efficiency and nation brand strength— two critical factors in the economic development of knowledge economies. Although the link between innovation efficiency and nation brand strength has not yet been scientifically validated,...

Both host nations and expatriates themselves are concerned with the integration of women expatriates into host countries' societies. We developed a framework based on empowerment theory to illustrate how relational empowerment influences well-being and community embeddedness in a host country. By promoting relational empowerment, individuals enhanc...

The aim of this study was to examine the mediating role of knowledge-sharing behavior (KSB) in the relationship between employee engagement and innovative work behavior (IWB). We collected 193 completed survey responses from employees working in the service sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Drawing on social exchange theory (SET), we employ...

Purpose This study aims to explore the dynamic interplay between employee resilience (ER) and learning organisations, specifically examining the mediating influence of psychological empowerment (PE). Design/methodology/approach Drawing on responses from 208 participants working in the United Arab Emirates, we used regression analysis with bootstra...

This study explored how diversity management fuels innovative employee behavior in the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) emerging economy. Surveying 120 individuals from various service organizations, the research found a strong connection between diversity initiatives, and employee engagement, ultimately leading to more innovative practices. Diversity m...

Purpose This study investigates the relationship between women’s networks perceptions and job satisfaction. It also examines the mediating effects of perceived organizational support (POS) for women’s work contributions on the relationship between networks perceptions and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach The participants are female em...

Learning the factors that positively impact employee well-being is not a new stream of study. The care and support provided by managers can influence employees' motivation and overall well-being. The positive emotional environment created by a caring climate can significantly impact how individuals feel and function in their professional lives. Add...

Literature has studied the factors affecting people's well-being, but expatriate women's empowerment and community embeddedness has been neglected as factors affecting women's well-being. However, the literature has not examined a relatively new phenomenon: the influence of expatriate women's empowerment, community embeddedness on women's well-bein...

Purpose: Although the study of factors that promote employee well-being is not a new research area, the impact of managerial caring and perceived insider status on subjective employee well-being is a relatively new and unexplored area within the management literature. Therefore, this study examined the relationship between managerial caring and sub...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to try to understand to what extent do demographic factors including gender, age, marital status, educational level, university year, major course, internship experience and country influence students' social responsibility awareness. Methods: Data was collected from three different countries in the Middle Ea...

Although the relationship between migration and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been extensively explored in the literature. A notable gap exists in understanding the role of governance in shaping this relationship. This research has primarily focused on the direct links between migrants and FDI, dominating the importance influence of governanc...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between extrinsic rewards and employee creativity through the intervening mechanism of perceived organisational support (POS) and work engagement. The moderating role of intrinsic motivation on the relationship between work engagement and employee creativity is also examined. Design/methodolo...

Purpose – Informed by the resource-based and resource-advantage theories, this study, a comparative study, aims to examine the core dimensions of nation brands – culture, tourism, exports, foreign direct investment, migration and governance – from the company-based brand equity perspective in a sample of 48 countries clustered into three groups (st...

Purpose The under-representation of women working in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers is a persistent problem worldwide. This dilemma is exacerbated by the fact that an insufficient number of women enroll in STEM studies, and a significant proportion of those who do join then opt out of their STEM careers at different...

Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between global renewable energy consumption and economic growth in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries from 2001 to 2019. Design/methodology/approach This paper used a panel regression model to study the six GCC countries over the period from 2001 to 2019. Findings As expected, the findings...

Purpose – This study provides theoretical and empirical insights into how firms can enhance their performance strategically and financially by integrating learning and transformational capabilities into research and development (R&D) activities based on the dynamic capabilities approach. To achieve this, the authors propose that transformational ca...

Although research on perceived insider status (PIS) spans two decades, a systematic review of the findings in this field has not been conducted. This review assesses the antecedents and outcomes associated with PIS, the theories underpinning PIS, and the exact nature of these relationships. This study adopted the preferred reporting items for syste...

Purpose Despite continuing under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, the literature still falls short on identifying and explaining the factors that could contribute to women's persistence and commitment. The purpose of this research is to identify cognitive and behavioral factors that will sup...

Purpose. This paper aims to investigate the contribution of perceived organizational support (POS), work engagement (WE) and intrinsic motivation (IM) on employee creativity (EC). Design/methodology/approach. This study conducted a questionnaire survey obtaining 370 respondents employed in the United Arab Emirates in 6 organizations operating in s...

Purpose: Despite an evident increase in the number of women joining STEM majors at universities, recruiting and retaining women in STEM occupations continues to be a major challenge. The aim of this research is to investigate several factors that may enhance the representation of women in STEM fields. Design/Methodology/Approach: We report the resu...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between different organisational development programmes (360-degree feedback; Coaching; Job assignment; Employee assistance programmes; On-the-job training; Web-based career information; Continuous professional development; External education provision) and employees’ career development. The i...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the relationship between organizational learning (OL) and work engagement (WE) in the Middle East region amid the COVID-19 pandemic and to test the mediating role of employee resilience (ER) and psychological empowerment (PE) on this relationship. Design/methodology/approach The sample size was 208 respondents wo...

The aim of the research is to examine the moderating roles of intrinsic motivation and extrinsic rewards in the relationship between perceived organisation support and employee creativity as mediated by work engagement. The study implemented the PROCESS macro (Hayes 2018) to test the hypotheses, including the multiple moderated mediation model (int...

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between perceived organizational support and employee creativity mediated by work engagement. We report the results from a questionnaire survey on a sample of 492 professional employees (219, 44.51% females and 273, 55.49% males) employed in two major industries in the United Kingdom. Our finding...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between university–industry collaboration (U-I-C) in research and development (R&D) and quality management and explore how the relationship is mediated by innovation. Design/methodology/approach Based on panel data consisting of 109 countries spanning over a five year period (2013-2017) this...

Knowledge sharing (KS) is often considered central to encouraging innovative work behaviour (IWB). We concentrate specifically on the relationship between KS and IWB through the mediating role of psychological empowerment (PE). A stratified sampling method was employed for three organisations operating in the services sector. We obtained 340 comple...

This study aims to provide theoretical and empirical insights into how a firm can enhance its performance strategically and financially to achieve competitive advantage through integrating R&D activities with the dynamic capabilities approach. In order to achieve this, two business models have been proposed. The first is solely related to the firms...