Iffat Sabir Chaudhry

• PhD Management
• Professor (Associate) at Al Ain University

Research Purpose: The current study attempted to redress the ‘narrowness’ in the research on the causes of workforce emotional experiences by utilizing the cybernetic Viable System Model (VSM) framework, and developing a reference model to facilitate the integrated view of the related aspects of affective workplace environment. Methods: Based on V...

The current empirical research investigates the impact of individual’s self-concept on his/her purchase intention in Pakistani vs. Omani market. Both actual and ideal states, of ones private and social self-concept and their congruence to brand personality, were selected as the independent variables in the investigation. The impact of the actual se...

The impact of job characteristics on organizational success and its members’ work attitudes and behaviors is not new in the field of organizational behavior. However, the empirical work on gauging the influence of job features on affective states of employees and its subsequent impact on work outcomes is rather marginal. The study intends to valida...

A well established organization definitely would have its mission as it provides vivid directions to its employees to achieve their entrusted task within defined ambit. This study aims at measuring impact of organization's mission on performance in Banking, Telecommunication and Pharmaceutical Sector of Pakistan. To ascertain effect of mission on o...

The counter terrorism operations have severely affected the residents of Khyber PakhtunKhwa (KPK) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) due to their displacement, loss of jobs, businesses, homes, friends and means of education. Making these regions Taliban-free is not enough; the government of Pakistan needs to offer a one-window solution...

The study aims to improve the current understanding of the work environment and related workforce emotional experiences by reinterpreting them from a systems perspective. The study focuses on adopting human-centric design principles for managing the emotional experiences of the employees in day-to-day operations so that positive emotions can be amp...

The issue of climate change is a significant concern in contemporary society characterized by a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. Asian nations are also dealing with issues related to climate change. The objective of this study is to ascertain the relationship between climate change and its impact on both the economy a...

This empirical investigation examines the complex dynamics between Artificial Intelligence (AI), Potential Development (PD), Training Initiatives (TI), and High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) within manufacturing firms to gain valuable insights into how AI technologies influence high-performance work systems through employee development and traini...

Learning Outcomes On completion of case reading the student will be able to: (1) To recognize the significance of business ethics on its market reputation; (2) To interpret the strategic implications of bad decisions on company reputation; (3) To identify the legal and administrative lapses in the governance system that fail to nip fraudulent opera...

Purpose Despite being a seminal explanation of the workforce emotional experiences, capable of mapping the path from the antecedents to consequences, affective events theory (AET) only offers a “macrostructure” of a working environment. To date, little is known about the universal features of the work environment that may guide the understanding of...

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the role of perceived service quality and place attachment in developing place intimacy and revisit intention among foreign tourists visiting Pakistan, by adopting the stimulus-organism-response model. A survey-based, cross-sectional research design was used to collect data from 329 foreign tourists visi...

The availability of natural resources in the organization plays a crucial role in achieving the organization's goals. The employees of the energy and petroleum sectors in Pakistan have less training and exposure to the latest developments, which makes them less innovative for sustainable development. This research was designed to determine the impa...

Purpose The importance of modeling digital leadership in quickly digitizing countries, like the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is inevitable for building leadership capabilities to lead, engage and motivate remote employees in the digital environment. Using Blake and Mouton Grid, the current study examines the behavioral approach used by the leaders f...

Artificial intelligence-based tools are rapidly revolutionizing the field of higher education, yet to be explored in terms of their impact on existing higher education institutions’ (HEIs) practices adopted for continuous learning improvement, given the sparsity of the literature and empirical experiments in undergraduate degree programs. After the...

Motivated by Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) results, this paper investigated Omani students’ degree of conviction on ethical behavior, their perception of the positive role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in achieving organizational long-term effectiveness and their sensitivity to CSR over organizational sho...

This paper investigated peoples’ awareness on plastic ban legislation and the consistency of their practices in promoting the sustainability of plastic waste management. Specifically, this paper determines the difference between the awareness on plastic ban legislation based on the demographic profile, describing the level of awareness on single-us...

Purpose United Arab Emirates’ (UAEs) commitment to sustainable development is well reflected in its Vision-2021, 2030 and the Green Economy Strategy for Sustainable Development, followed by several initiatives at federal and local level. However, out of seven Emirates, the governments of Abu Dhabi and Dubai are adopting and rigorously implementing...

E-learning was mandated for all the higher education institutions (HEI) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to encounter the pandemic and practice social distancing in year 2020. This led education institutions to shift from face-to-face traditional classroom settings to online education channels for delivering education to their students despite bei...

The article identifies the motivating factors behind the career preferences of university graduates who chose to engage in sustainable entrepreneurship. In this research, multi-methods—theoretical investigations and qualitative interviews—have been utilized to determine the factors responsible for promoting sustainable entrepreneurship in a develop...

The current study attempted to determine if workforce diversity (inherent or acquired) and its inclusion practices (implementing fairness, belongingness, uniqueness, and diverse workplace climate) contribute to the innovativeness of the organizational climate. It also considered whether organizational characteristics (i.e., type, size, and industry...

The study analyses the seasonal variation and forecasts the output of the beverage industry in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province of Pakistan, using a seven-year (month-wise) data from July 2007 to April 2014. Tramo Seats version of Demetra+ software has been used on log-transformed data with the distinct feature of automatic model identification to...

The study of emotions is the most densely populated field of organisational behaviour academic research. However, the application of systemic approaches to the field of workforce emotions is marginal. The current theoretical study intends to reveal the suitability of a systemic approach - the theory of viability (i.e., viable system model - VSM) fo...

Oman plans to double the fishery production by 2020 to enhance the fisheries sector contribution to its GDP as well as create job opportunities for Omanis. The millennial generation can play a pivotal role in revamping the traditional fisheries sector in Oman. The current study determines the perception of millennials involved in fisheries enterpri...

The means of public transportation in A'Sharqiyah governorate of Oman are minimal and mostly based on private taxis. The development of a public transport system (specifically buses) can contribute significantly to solving many of the social problems of the region like traffic accidents, congestion and pollution. The current research evaluates the...

Emotions have been progressively acknowledged and reported as a vital element of social organizations, and an increasing number of researchers and practitioners have been engaged in exploring and understanding the role of emotions in several organizational contexts. However, the investigations related to the utilizations of emotions by the managers...

De-regulation and liberalization has multiplied the competition as well as the scope of risk to systems in financial services sector. Performance, being the only managerial focus in the past, is inadequate to identify and control the events that represent threats to the organizations. The firms are now required to balance their performance targets...