Ishfaq Ahmed

• Ph.D. (Management)
• Associate Professor at University of Buraimi

Leadership at workplace plays an important role in improving employees work and beyond work outcomes. Building on these lines, this study aims to study the impact of inclusive leadership on employees' communication behavior. It also entails investigation of mediating role of exchange norms moderating role of person-organization fit (PO fit). A time...

Purpose In closely knitted eastern societies (e.g. Pakistan), women tend to work for their families, and career is a volunteer choice. The working women often face issues in balancing between these roles and often family pressures influence their work i.e. family care work conflict (FCWC). By valuing the prevalent issue of FCWC, this study aims to...

Purpose Humans are largely influenced by the environment in which they work, and the positive environment offers positive outcomes. Building on these lines, this study aims to propose and empirically investigate the relationship of fun on employees’ knowledge sharing behavior. The study also proposes and empirically tests the mediation mechanism of...

Purpose Building on evolutionary emancipation theory, the purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of workplace fun on employees’ scouting behavior through the serial mediation of employees’ psychological empowerment and megaphoning. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey technique is used to elicit the responses of 445 emplo...

Entrepreneurial ventures are outcomes of favorable internal and external factors. But the outcomes are always uncertain, often creating a situation of cognitive/perceptual dismay. One of such perceptual aspect of entrepreneurship that has recently emerged is person-entrepreneurship fit (P-E fit). By using this underlying aspect, this study entails...

The increased environmental concerns demand the attention of all stakeholders, while organisations and their employees are the most important of them. Adjacent to this, the core aim of this study is to investigate the impact of green human resource management (GHRM) practices on employees’ green organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) through th...

This paper aims to examine the mechanisms and boundary conditions that underlie the relationship between perceived environment specific servant leadership (ESSL) and perceived organizational environmental citizenship behavior (OECB). By drawing on the social exchange and social identity theories, we explore corporate social responsibility (CSR) as...

For the last few decades, the business practices have primarily been focusing on the green and sustainable practices that mainly focus on the preservation of the environment and correspond to corporate social responsibility. But the sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has left unprecedented effects on the business world. Against this backdrop,...

The current study investigated the impact of green transformational leadership on employee commitment towards the environment, keeping in view the mediating effect of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices and the moderating effect of Islamic work ethics. For this purpose, data collected through a survey questionnaire from 524 hotel emplo...

Purpose-Abusive supervision is found to influence the workplace negatively but how it predicts knowledge hiding behavior is an area that has not gained due attention in the literature. To this backdrop, this study aims to investigate the effect of abusive supervision on knowledge hiding behavior considering future orientation and Islamic work ethic...

Purpose Despite growing interest in workplace spirituality (WPS) and its impact on employee behaviors, there is a dearth of literature discussing an underlying mechanism of how it affects adaptive performance. Against this backdrop, this study aims to develop and test a comprehensive model that examined the effects of WPS on adaptive performance th...

en This study examines the mediating role of green human resource management between ethical leadership and employees' citizenship behavior towards the environment with the moderating effect of individual green values. We collected data from 589 MBA executive students with one-year of experience working in various organizations at two different tim...

Entrepreneurial activities require thoughtful and cumbersome efforts, positive and forward-looking upward spiral, and strong entrepreneurial intentions. Drawing from the work-family interface model, this study aims at investigating the impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) on venturing intentions through moderated mediation mechanisms of fa...

Purpose The ethical issues arising at work demand the role of both leader and employees, but how both the levels are linked in determining the ethical responses is an area that has not gained due attention in the past. Against this backdrop, this study aims to address the influence of a leader’s authenticity and ethical voice on ethical culture and...

Purpose The issue of customer mistreatment in food and retail sectors has come under the spotlight during the COVID-19 crisis. The purpose of this paper is to examine the problem in the COVID-19 pandemic context and study its implications for employee counterproductive behavior in the workplace. Specifically, this study aims to investigate the rela...

Purpose With the advent of technology and internet banking, the role and value of bank’s websites have increased. Additionally, the Islamic banking boom has also increased the role of Shariah-based banking in the market. But neither web-based information nor Shariah board members have been investigated for their possible effects on the branding of...

Purpose Human misbehaviors are responsible for climate change as they waste resources and pollute water and air that dilapidate the environment. Considering the fact and contributing to the United Nations sustainable development goals of 2019, organizations started focusing their green HRM practices to develop employees' green attitudes and behavio...

Deleterious leadership is at rising, while its harmful effects have recently gained researchers' attention. Based on social exchange and conservation of resources perspectives, this study aims at investigating the harmful effect of dark side of a leader (i.e., despotic leadership) on job dissatisfaction and organizational deviance considering the m...

Purpose In the realm of increased competition among coffee café, the need for customer citizenship behavior (CCB) has increased. But the question of how a café can win CCB through firm-level and individual dispositional factors have not been gained due attention. Against this backdrop, this study aims to investigate a moderated-mediation model to p...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is envisaged to offer several outcomes and while customer-specific consequences are unclear or have not obtained due attention, there is a dearth of literature that focuses on perceptual, attitudinal and behavioral outcomes in tandem. Against this backdrop, this study entails the investigation of perceptual (se...

Purpose This study investigates the mechanism between work-family conflict (WFC) and job dissatisfaction by considering threat to family role as a mediator and role segment enhancement as a moderator. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected from 245 male and 245 female police officers using a questionnaire-based survey method through c...

Purpose Entrepreneurial activities are the outcome of various individual dispositional and environmental factors. Taking both internal and external factors as the basic premise of venturing, this study aims to investigate the impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on intentions through the mediating role of regret and moderation of family support....

Researchers and scholars have widely attributed corporate social responsibility (CSR) to enormous outcomes. However, the customer-specific outcomes are either less investigated or lack clarity. By focusing on perceptual, attitudinal and behavioral outcomes of CSR, this study entails that CSR influences customers’ citizenship behavior (behavioral ou...

Purpose Around 87 percent of employees are not engaged in their work and 82 percent have withdrawal intentions across the globe. Considering these emerging challenges the purpose of this paper is to investigate the associations between inter-role conflicts, work engagement and turnover intention considering person-job-fit (PJF) as a moderator. Des...

Purpose The global increase in coffee consumption has increased competition among cafes, generating the need to find ways of increasing customers’ revisit. Considering this backdrop, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of authenticity, interpersonal justice and prior experience on customer’s revisit intention, taking involvement...

The upsurge of globalization has made investors cautious towards investing decisions, and resultantly, the techniques of forecasting and carefully analyzing the stock markets have emerged. This trend has gained momentum in emerging economies particularly. One such trend is to overcome the investing risks associated with formation of rational bubble...

Disclosures on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices of business organizations have heightened over the past few decades due to increased awareness. Major contributions in the literature on CSR practices and their disclosures come from the studies conducted in the developed world, while many developing economies like Pakistan remain under...

Purpose: With the shift from manufacturing to services economies, the need of customer management has increased. The shift has also increased the role of front line employees in managing their emotions, as they may directly influence customers’ responses towards organisations’ products and services. Based on this premise, this study values emotiona...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to value the role of organizational virtuousness in predicting employee performance through mediation of affective well-being and work engagement. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through questionnaires from 487 banking employees from 60 branches of ten banks. Findings Analysis through structura...

This research covers the current status of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) related practices in the informal construction segment of Pakistan. Data was collected, through interviews, from 316 construction sites employing 3577 workers. The results of the study reveal that both employers and workers lack knowledge of OHS laws/standards and no pr...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the mechanism between perceived organizational support and transfer of training using self-efficacy and job satisfaction as mediating variables. More specifically, self-efficacy is examined as a mediator between perceived organizational support and job satisfaction, whereas job satisfaction is examined as a m...

This study is an attempt to analyze the students' tendencies to engage in knowledge sharing behaviors during their studies. A structured questionnaire was designed to investigate the students' behavior towards knowledge sharing. Results illustrate that interpersonal factors like: trust, perceptions about knowledge sharing, and willingness to share,...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the effects of ethical leadership on employee’s bullying and voice behavior, considering poor working conditions, organizational identification and workload as mediating variables. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaire survey design was used to elicit responses of 564 nurses from hospitals located in va...

Purpose Nursing profession is facing the problem of turnover across the globe. The purpose of this paper is to identify the mechanism through which organizational support helps nurses to reduce their turnover intention (TI). Design/methodology/approach Data from 324 nurses were collected using a questionnaire-based survey on the basis of a conve...

This study is aimed at investigating the quality of workplace ergonomics at various Pakistani organizations and quality of life of computer users working in these organizations. Two hundred and thirty-five computer users (only those employees who have to do most of their job tasks on computer or laptop, and at their office) responded by filling the...

In the dynamic world of business where creativity is the sole way to be competitive, employees’ creative role is considered the most treasured. Winning employees’ creativity requires attention from all levels, thus requiring an eternal exchange between top and bottom of an organization. Valuing this decree, this study focuses on unveiling the assoc...

Purpose It is believed that the core aim of Islamic institution is idiosyncratic from conventional business entities. Considering this presumption, this study aims to reveal the understandings of various stakeholders about objectives of Islamic banks. Design/methodology/approach The research endeavor is based on the findings of two distinctive stu...

This study was aimed to investigate the dynamic role of social exchange relations and energy as an impetus for creative work involvement of IT professionals. One hundred and seventy five employees and sixty four team leaders were inquired at two points of time. At the first instance they were inquired for the perception of social exchange relations...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of understanding of Muslim students about Istihalah. It compares the understanding of students of various departments about Istihalah and changes in their knowledge after a workshop. Design/methodology/approach The study is conducted in two phases. In the first phase, a comparison is ma...

Purpose It is believed that Islamic banks are aimed at the welfare of its stakeholders (Dusuki, 2008). The major stakeholders consist of customers, employees, competitors and management. But whether the Islamic banks are really able to communicate and convey their mission to their stakeholders is an area which has not be given due importance. This...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the difference between fresh graduates’ expectations and actual experiences regarding work environment. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire-based survey was employed on 170 Malaysian fresh graduates. They were evaluated on the basis of their expectations and actual experiences which enabl...

Purpose – Riggle et al.’s (2009) and Rhoades and Eisenberger (2002) literature surveys are the latest available studies on antecedents and outcomes of perceived organizational support (POS). Riggle et al. work considered studies on outcomes of organizational support (1986-2006), while Rhoades and Eisenberger worked on both antecedents and conseque...

This study aims at investigating the burden and pattern of clothing related pillion riders' injuries and their helmet wearing pattern in Lahore, Pakistan. Data were collected for nine months (July 2013 to March 2014), reporting 13,248 motorcycle related injuries, out of which 8751 (66%) cases were related to the clothing related pillion riders' inj...

Purpose – Riggle et al. ’s (2009) research of 20 years literature (1986-2006) is the latest available meta-analysis on perceived organizational support and outcomes. There are seven years since no work has been done to see the changes in the research and its emphasis, which is the main target of this research. This study aimed at five major outcome...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the association between leader–member exchange (LMX) and perceived organizational support (POS) and their impact on job involvement, in-role performance and extra-role behavior. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected via questionnaire from 231 employees selected from 40 branches of top ten banks...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is, in considering the significant role of social exchange relations at work, to add value by highlighting the remedial effects of the individual guanxi network (IGN), perceived organizational support (POS) and leader–member exchange (LMX) in overcoming ostracism at work. Design/methodology/approach – Data were...

This study is an attempt to investigate the tourism marketing and attraction strategies adopted by various countries. A case study based approach is adopted in this study. On the basis of investigation of tourism development strategies adopted by various countries, suggestions are also made at the end. These suggestions are aimed to increase visito...

Purpose – This study investigated how leader-member relation and guanxi association create an impetus for creative work involvement (CWI) through feeling of energy (FE). The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 239 Malaysian-Chinese employees occupying various designations in 23 manufacturing organizations w...

Purpose – Applying the social exchange theory at educational institution, this research endeavor is aimed to find out impact of organizational (institutional) support on teachers’ responsive behavior, and ultimately outcomes of responsiveness in form of students’ satisfaction and academic performance. Design/methodology/approach – This study was c...

The paper describes a proposed study to examine the relationships between job satisfactions, organisational support, academics-employer relations and organisational citizenship behaviour. This study hypothesizes perceived organisational supports and academics-employer relations as antecedents; and organisational citizenship behaviour as consequence...

This study advances research on leader’s & individuals’ entrepreneurial orientation, organizational factors and project success in IT firms. This study adds value by taking entrepreneurial orientation of leader as leadership behavior rather than taking traditional leadership concepts, and investigates its outcomes in shape of individuals’ entrepren...

Applying the social exchange theory at educational institution, this research endeavour is aimed to find out impact of organisational (institutional) support on teachers' responsive behaviour, and ultimately outcomes of responsiveness in form of students' satisfaction and academic performance. This study was conducted on 32 teachers and 419 student...

Purpose – A mission statement is an important tool for organizational communication, as it speaks to all stakeholders. It should be readable and comprehensible. The main objective of this article is to determine the readability of mission statements from selected Islamic banks. Design/methodology/approach – This study was conducted using simple co...

Purpose In this global era every organization aims to retain its key workers through salary, incentives, rewards and recognition. Organizational learning culture and leaders' support are amongst those aspects that have not been focused on extensively by organizations to retain their key employees. The present study aims to investigate the relations...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of perceptions of organizational politics between leadership style, on the one hand and performance, commitment and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) on other hand. Design/methodology/approach A multifactor questionnaire was distributed among public employees of Pakista...

Purpose – Using the social exchange perspective, the aim of this research is to add value to the construct by looking at direct and indirect effects through perceived organizational support (POS) and leader-member exchange (LMX) of the guanxi network in job involvement, and ultimately the effect of job involvement on in-role performance. Design/me...

This research endeavour is aimed to judge direct and indirect effects of individual guanxi network on job involvement and finally impact of job involvement on in-role performance. Questionnaire was used as tool for data collection, 300 questionnaires were distributed to Malaysian-Chinese hotel employees at two points of time. Simple random sampling...

This research is aimed to provide empirical evidence of training effectiveness by using return on investment (ROI) as measurement tool. Fourteen textile composite units (listed in Islamabad Stock Exchange) were selected for study for two years: 2009 to 2011. Findings show that none of the respondents were using ROI of training as evaluation tool. S...

This research intends to discuss the specific issues that are faced by Pakistani students in the shape of political instability, increasing terrorism in the country along with family support of entrepreneurial intentions. Data was collected from 330 university students. Structural equation modeling technique was used for data analysis. Findings sho...

Entrepreneurship has a tremendous impact on the economic development of a country. As can be expected, many public policies foster the development of self- entrepreneurship in times of unemployment, praise the creation of firms and con- sider the willingness to start new ventures as a sign of good fortune. Are those behaviours inherent to a human b...

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The present research has been carried out to discover the influence of leadership style of a teacher on the academic performance of students with self-efficacy as moderating variable. The object of this study was the students so that we can evaluate the leadership style of a teacher and to observe the influence of leadership style on the academic p...

Several articles have reported and discussed the job satisfaction and dissatisfaction of female workers in miscellaneous organizations. However, very few empirically-supported explanations have been given to explain how job satisfaction mediates the relationship between facets of job and citizenship behavior in banking sector of Pakistan and specia...

Several articles have reported and discussed the job satisfaction and dissatisfaction of female workers in miscellaneous organizations. However, very few empirically-supported explanations have been given to explain how job satisfaction mediates the relationship between facets of job and citizenship behavior in banking sector of Pakistan and specia...

Performance appraisal is a key element of management practices. Performance appraisal plays an impor-tant role for continuous improvement. Lot of researchers has worked on performance appraisal from both employee and organizations point of view. This study is aimed to find out the relationship between perceived fairness in performance appraisal and...

This study implies the exploration of relationship between SNSs usage and educational performance of the student users. A sample of one thousand students was selected from different universities of Pakistan. In first step of Multistage Sampling Technique, simple random sampling technique was used to select 6 universities i.e. 2 from private sector...

This study focuses on exploring the pattern of mobile phone usage among youngsters in Pakistan to delineate the extent of addictive behavior towards its usage. For this purpose questionnaires were used to elicit the responses. University students were selected as population and simple random sampling technique was used. Sample was consisting of 500...

This study describes the impact of social networking sites (SNSs) on the studying habits of students; as such, multistage sampling technique was used for data collection. In the first stage, six universities (four public and two private universities) were selected as samples on simple random sampling basis, from which 1000 students were selected as...

Organizations always look forward to long lasting success. For long lasting benefits and greater returns, organizations continuously try to satisfy their customers in order to retain them and get their future repurchase intentions. Future repurchase intentions of customers are outcomes of various organizational efforts. As such, one of the most imp...

Organizations always look forward to long lasting success. For long lasting benefits and greater returns, organizations continuously try to satisfy their customers in order to retain them and get their future repurchase intentions. Future repurchase intentions of customers are outcomes of various organizational efforts. As such, one of the most imp...

Organizations always look forward to long lasting success. For long lasting benefits and greater returns, organizations continuously try to satisfy their customers in order to retain them and get their future repurchase intentions. Future repurchase intentions of customers are outcomes of various organizational efforts. As such, one of the most imp...

Service quality is widely used and experimented in various sectors. Five dimensions of service quality are the dimensions that can be applied in every sector whether manufacturing or services sector. This paper is also aimed to see impact of service quality on satisfaction and motivation of students. Finally importance of satisfaction and motivatio...

Service quality is widely used and experimented in various sectors. Five dimensions of service quality are the dimensions that can be applied in every sector whether manufacturing or services sector. This paper is also aimed to see impact of service quality on satisfaction and motivation of students. Finally importance of satisfaction and motivatio...

Service quality is widely used and experimented in various sectors. Five dimensions of service quality are the dimensions that can be applied in every sector whether manufacturing or services sector. This paper is also aimed to see impact of service quality on satisfaction and motivation of students. Finally importance of satisfaction and motivatio...

The satisfaction of employees with organizational climate is predictor of better performance. Organizationalclimate is having direct bearing on employees’ satisfaction. The satisfaction of employees with organizationalclimate enhances positive organizational outcomes: efficiency, productivity, organizational commitment andcohesiveness of coworkers...

Current study investigates the impact of firm level characteristics on capital structure of life insurance companies of Pakistan. For this purpose, leverage is taken as dependent variable while profitability, size, growth, age, risk, tangibility of assets and liquidity are selected as independent variables. The result of OLS regression model indica...

Satisfaction of the Students and extra effort from their side is considered to be success of the faculty member in any institute. The current study seeks to determine the role of faculty members as leaders who influence their students through individualized consideration and contingent rewards and whether their style satisfies their students and ur...

The long term success of organizations depends on many factors. In order to survive service sector organizations need to offer quality in service. These companies try to retain their customers by providing them quality services. The following study examines the service quality of the mobile service providers and retention intentions of the customer...

Motivational factors play an important role in increasing employee job satisfaction. Satisfied employees in return can help in improving organizational performance. The objective of this study is to analyze the effects of motivational factors on employee job satisfaction. This is an exploratory study based on primary data. The primary data has been...

Conflicts are one of the indispensible parts of organizations life. Managing conflicts is issue that is to be considered to solve the said problem and to overcome the negative impacts of conflicts at work place. This paper is aimed to examine relationship between personality traits and preferred conflict handling style. Big five traits model are se...

In hard times when educated persons can't get jobs, it is becoming challenge for states. It is rather harder for least and under developed countries, like Pakistan, where governments are not having sufficient resources to support the unemployed workforce. Self employment and Entrepreneurship is referred as the best solution. But entrepreneurship is...

Work stress in any profession is likely to be experienced by the employees employed there and university teachers are no exceptions in this regard. This study tends to examine the relationship between role conflict, role ambiguity and attitudinal outcomes of the job i.e. job satisfaction and organizational commitment of teaching staff in the larges...

This study explores buying and re-buying activities of mobile phone; Preferences for Brands, Purchasing features and Network providers; Account recharge activities and Calling & Texting patterns of mobile phone users in Pakistan. For this purpose questionnaires were used as data collection tool. Students were selected as population and Simple rando...

Job satisfaction has always been in debate by researchers and practitioners. It has gained much importance due to its significance for achievement of overall organizational goals. Rapid changes in the business world have made human resource the most vital asset for organizations. Now productive and efficient employees are need of time. Employee pro...

The role of leadership is very much important in building a sustainable corporate and social system. The education institutes are playing an important role in nurturing future leaders for both. In this context the role of faculty members in higher education institutes is very much important as they contribute directly towards personality building....