Kashif ur Rehman

• Vice Chancellor
• Vice Chancellor at City University of Science and Information Technology

Zakat is the most important aspect of the welfare system in the Muslim society. The aim of this research is to study the long and short run relationships between the Zakat fund collection in Pakistan on the designated assets as mentioned in the Zakat and Ushr Ordinance, 1980 and macroeconomic variables like GDP and Household Consumption during the...

The textile industry constitutes almost 68 percent of Pakistan’s total exports, forming a virtual back bone for the economy. This study explores how Islamic work ethics, along with managerial integrity and performance, enhance shareholder value. Three dimensions of shareholder value were analyzed: profit, customer satisfaction and employee loyalty....

This study determines business performance trends in the fast-growing telecom industry of Pakistan. The study employes correlational modeling for hypotheses testing. Correlational interpretations observe the impact of Islamic work ethics on managerial performance and management on the example of telecom organizations. This study uses the sample of...

This study formulated and tested a model for customer satisfaction based on service quality in e-banking. The research team developed the model on the basis of theoretical background. The research team used a structured questionnaire in order to collect data from e-banking customers of private sector banks in Pakistan using the convenience sampling...

The purpose of the study is to find the relationship of transformational leadership with organizational commitment and innovativeness, and to know if empowerment mediates the relationship between the transformational leadership, the organizational commitment, and the innovativeness. It was hypothesized that transformational leadership is positively...

This research paper tries to explore the level of awareness at grassroots level in Pakistan and Azerbaijan about bilateral relationship between two countries. This article also delineates areas of opportunity to strengthen bilateral relationship with Central Asian Republics in general and Azerbaijan in particular. Findings of the study indicate tha...

Quality of education has always remained an issue for the educational researchers. It is widely believed that quality of education in Sub-Continent is below the international standards. To find out how educational institutions are adding value towards the knowledge, skills, market value and moral upbringing of students and how much students are...

The purpose of this study is to examine the stock returns variation to specific macroeconomic and industry variables by applying multi-factor model. The firms of banking industry were selected for this study on the basis of data availability, profitability and performance on the Karachi Stock Exchange. The data for the selected firms and economic v...

The e-service is a long term marketing thought for many organizations, established on the assurance of cost effective models of providing customer services. Recent growth in the use of internet services has also provided opportunities for service companies to offer better quality service to their consumers. The main aim of the paper was to carry ou...

As organizations increasingly become aware of knowledge as a key strategic asset, they are being forced to revise their strategy on how to effectively utilize that asset to not only achieve competitive advantage but maintain it as well. Previous researches have provided many reasons for failure to implement knowledge management properly. No serious...

Finding the right person for a project is challenging. To identify the right person, relevant qualification and work experience are considered as primary determinants. In literature, the third determinant of the right person is the assessment of personality for finding a match with the nature of the job. However, in practice, personality assessment...

The 21st century came with blending of threats and opportunities due to the inception of Islamic banking practices across the globe. Islamic and conventional banking could be differentiated due to interest, risk sharing and objectivity. This study describes the Islamic instruction regarding Islamic banking and prohibition of Riba/interest, and also...

The financial service sector especially banking sector is growing rapidly in the area of globalization and borderless market. Islamic banking practices accelerated the pace of competition to retain customers as satisfied in the existence of the conventional banks. This study examines the perception of satisfaction amongst bank customers using produ...

This study highlights the level of customer awareness about Islamic banks and determines the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction with respect to Islamic banks. The survey based approach is used to collect the necessary data. 167 questionnaires were processed for the study. SPSS was used to analyze the data and the model w...

Globalization has amplified interest of academics and investors to the subject of co movement among the stock markets of the world. This study investigates the co movement of Pakistan’s Equity Market with the markets of India, China, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, USA and UK by using co integration test on monthly stock prices from...

Demutualization is a process of segregation of ownership, management and trading membership in an exchange. Studies show that demutualization is a mechanism which minimizes the conflict of interest by reducing the overbearing influence of the members on the affairs and management of the exchange. The Government has initiated demutualization process...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that are influencing the young graduates for intention to create new venture. The study further highlights how the attraction, networking support, entrepreneurial capabilities, self-independence and self-reliance influence the young students to initiate their new businesses. The sample size of...

This study compares the volatility behavior and variance structure of daily, weekly and monthly returns of the KSE-100 index. The study uses seventeen years data covering the period from 1991 to 2008. By employing ARCH (1) model, the study finds significant asymmetric shocks to volatility in the three series but the intensity of the shocks are not...

Women participation in the society is indispensable to improve the overall status of the society. The purpose of this study is to determine the psychological factors of women in career development. Further, this identifies the possible barriers facing women in career development. Data was collected through primary source and the sample size of this...

The study reviews the core areas of the finance functions and their level of applications in Pakistani corporate sector. A total of seventy questionnaires were distributed in different companies but fifty three were received and forty nine were processed and the potential respondents were the finance executives and financial analysts of the compani...

This study examines the impact of financial literacy, accounting information, openness to experience and information asymmetry on the short�term investment decision�making of the stock market investors. For this purpose 23�item questionnaire was developed and distributed among 185 stock market investors through non�probability sampling. The results...

The purpose of this study is to determine the patterns of capital structure decisions and dividend policy as well as their level of application in Pakistani corporate sector and also to check the impact of capital structure and dividend policy on organization performance. A total of ninety one questionnaires were distributed in different companies...

Human Capital has received major attention in present era research. Talent can be any individual who is committed, motivated and performs effectively. The successful utilization of individual capabilities can contribute positively to performance and enhance organizational image. It is very challenging to retain talent with in organization and keep...

Brand creation through an effective marketing strategy is necessary for creation of unique associations in the customers memory. Customers attitude, awareness and association towards the brand are primarily focused while evaluating performance of a brand, before designing the marketing strategies and subsequent evaluation of the progress. In this r...

The objective of this study is to determine the risk and return relationship on the basis of univariate modeling approach. This study is helpful to analyze the asymmetric nature of data including the seasonal affect and non linear properties in risk and return relationship scenario. In this study, monthly data was used regarding gold price, cotton...

This paper attempts to investigate whether young graduates possess the leadership style that is pre-requisite to become entrepreneur. The paper further examines the role of higher education towards the desire of new venture creation among young graduates in developing economies specially. This study analyzed the response of 225 final-semester stude...

This study investigates impact of the tax administrative reforms on the employees' motivation in the Federal Board f Revenue, Pakistan. It analyzes this effect by segmenting the employees based on gender, grade and service cadre. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), main executor of the fiscal policy and revenue collecting agency, has undergone radi...

This study examines the students’ satisfaction in higher education in Pakistan. The study focuses on the factors like teachers’ expertise, courses offered, learning environment and classroom facilities. Students’ response measured through an adapted questionnaire on a 5-point likert scale. The sample size of the study consisted of 350 students belo...

This study enhances the awareness of stakeholders about the financial management practices and their role to improve performance and growth of the Pakistani corporate sector. This study measures the impact of financial management practices on organization performance, application level and awareness of the financial analysts of the companies. Theor...

The credit card market has expanded radically in Pakistan, both in terms of cards variety and usage. A wide variety of local and international cards, issued by different domestic and foreign banks, is available in the market. Despite recent financial crisis, there are still huge potential for future growth and further penetration existing in Pakist...

Research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) majorly describes its effects on corporate financial performance or consumers' behavior towards CSR. Relatively few studies have focused employee's sentiments towards CSR. This study analyzes the multifaceted influence of CSR on employee's organizational commitment and organizational performance. Th...

Organizations want to retain their employees in order to benefit from their talent and skills. While working in an organization, employees come across some problems both inside and outside the organization. This study investigates the relationship between field employees’ voice effectiveness of voice mechanism) and employees’ intent to leave the or...

Cellular industry of Pakistan has grown many folds in recent years. Many new entrants have also joined the market to reap the potentials of this growing industry. This situation has originated a hyper competition among major cellular service providers in Pakistan. Companies are working hard to introduce more innovative and eye-catching products to...

Value crisis in corporate world around the globe significantly increased the need to find new management paradigm to deal with existing ethical dilemma. This study investigates inherent flaws of the contemporary corporate management in general and Value Based Management (VBM) in particular. This study identifies that weaknesses of current corporate...

The job satisfaction has got tremendous attention in organizational research. The focus of this study is to determine the impact of various human resource management practices like job autonomy, team work environment and leadership behavior on job satisfaction. It also investigates the major determinants of job satisfaction in Pakistani banking sec...

JUNE 2010 VOL 2, NO 2 Listed in ULRICH'S On-line learning is getting very much popularity in educational institutions and many academic institutions. Online learning allows students to replicate upon the resources and their responses but less sense of control on student. Today, online learning is provided using a variety of instructional delivery s...

In recent years competition between brands has become more complicated as the variety of local and foreign brands are available for customers. Above all, consumers in developing markets have several reasons for the purchase of new local and foreign brands in recent years. This paper attempts to analyze the different brands as important attributes,...

Domestic and international investors are interested in introducing their brands in Pakistan, the question is whether period of high inflation is suitable for introducing new brand in Pakistan. This study learned the consumer behavior during extremely high inflation period in Pakistan. The study conducted in Karachi, financial hub of the country. As...

Deviation of theory from practice is the burning question of the present age. Numerous efforts have been commenced in multi programs to inspect this prevailing disparity between knowledge and practice at different venues. This study aims to investigate the theory practice variation in the context of investment management education on the territory...

Managing an organization is a skilful job. Today, globally operated organizations are faced with numerous challenges. How corporate leaders should approach their obligations is one of the important queries at the desk of business researchers. This paper provides Islamic management model; where leaders first surrender their authorities to ‘divine’ i...

Internet is a useful tool for all in a technologically advanced world. Internet use for education is very important. It is now in practice to teach school to college to get more out of it. In this study, the emphasis is given on the most important success factor that investigates about Internet usage by students of the University, whether it is an...

Numbers of researches have been conducted to investigate interrelationship among corporate sustainability, corporate social responsibility and consumer purchase intentions. However conflicting results were found regarding effects of corporate social responsibility on consumer behavior. This research has investigated the effects of product/service q...

Stock market plays an important role in the economic development of a country. A number of studies have been investigated on the causal relationship between macro-economic indicators and stock exchange prices. But in the context of Pakistan, not many studies can be traced in literature, moreover this study has used the set of macro-economic indicat...

The objective of this study is to examine the stock returns variation to specific economic variables by applying a multi-factor model. The firms relating to banking and textile sectors were selected for this study on the basis of data availability, profitability and performance on the Karachi Stock Exchange. The data for the selected firms and econ...

During the last decade, some incidents shook the corporate world, thereby causing organizations to struggle for their survival and individuals to secure their interests. These events led to the hard debates on organizational commitment towards stakeholders. In response to the growing needs in this sphere, this article aims to provide new dimension...

This study developed and tested a business process orientation model to improve employee and organizational performance. The research team developed the model on the basis of theoretical background. Factor analysis and structural equation modeling techniques were used to test the model. The research team used a structured questionnaire to collect d...

This study examines the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction regarding Islamic banks as well as conventional banks in Pakistan. It also investigated how service quality affects customer satisfaction by assessing the magnitude of the relationship between selected variables. This study is important due to an emerging trend o...

This study measures the relationship between organizational performance and financial management practices like capital structure decision, dividend policy, investment appraisal techniques, working capital management and financial performance assessment in Pakistani corporate sector. Sample of the study consisted of forty companies operating in Pak...

Organizations want to retain their employees in order to benefit from their talent and skills. While working in an organization, employees come across some problems both inside and outside the organization. This study investigates the relationship between field employees’ voice (effectiveness of voice mechanism) and employees’ intent to leave the o...

This study examines the role of university students’ perception towards banking and finance profession and explores the relationship between profession and perception. This study provides groundbreaking scholarly work in the field of banking that provokes those who have done their major in finance. The sample consisted of 300 students studying in I...

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In almost every aspect of life leadership crisis is quite evident from last one decade. There is wave of high profile scandals across the board including politics, governance, management, services, finance, banking, stock exchanges, manufacturing, marketing and selling. This article provides Islamic leadership model with novel accountability perspe...

Entrepreneurship is considered as engine of economic growth. Entrepreneurial process starts from development of entrepreneurial intentions. A large number of scholars have focused on the internal and psychological aspects regarding entrepreneur. However, little is known about how external factors can influence the development of entrepreneurial int...

This study examines the causal relationship between exchange rate and its determinants in Pakistan. The study uses Granger Causality and Johansen and Juselius Co integration tests on monthly data of exchange rate, interest rate and inflation rate for the period starting from Jan 1998 to Dec 2008. On the basis of the results, the major findings of t...

To evaluate the relationship of Brand Reputation, Brand Competence and Brand Predictability with the context of Consumer’s Trust in the Brand. Questionnaire comprising of two parts, first part shows demographic profile, and second part consisted on three independent variables of Brand Characteristic (Brand Reputation, Brand Competence, and Brand Pr...

The study was conducted to explore the myth that foreign controlled banks were supposed to be more profitable and efficient than local controlled ones. Two out of three financial indicators, understudy, pointed out that the overall performance of the foreign commercial banks, operating in Pakistan, was 24.44% better than the local controlled banks....

The aim of this study is to analyse the reliability and validity of job factors in relation to the impact of occupational stress on employees' somatic symptoms, job anxiety and turnover intention through a two time cross-sectional study of the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA). The method employed consisted of two times self-reported cr...

State Bank of Pakistan is regularly collecting data for exports for service and industrial sectors such as food, textile and other manufacturing commodities. The data may be used by individuals and organizations to arrive at a suitable sector by reducing uncertainty and ensuring best possible returns. Performance of these sectors gets influenced by...

Pakistani business sector and the Government like any other country are keen to attract foreign investment into various sectors of the economy. Cheaper labor rates at Pakistan also make it an attractive option for foreign investors in business opportunities. However literature to provide some guidelines of investment portfolios is very limited for...

Online education is considered not equivalent to conventional education as student learning may not be on same quality. Literature guided that studentpsilas learning depends on various factors including quality of the training material provided in online education system. In Pakistan, certain universities are offering online education degree progra...

Every business organization targets success in terms of minimum cost, maximum profit, and rich reputation etc. For achieving success in all these dimensions various factors are involved and one of them is selection and formation of team of right persons especially for senior management positions. Investigation revealed that many IT software houses...

Learning of student can be assessed by objective type and subjective type questions. Educationists and behavioral scientists declare subjective writing skills essential for senior management positions. Investigation revealed that IT professionals who qualified through objective type online examination and lack subjective writing skills could not ea...

The objective of this study is to identify and evaluate the effective leadership qualities in day-to-day working environment of banking sector in Pakistan. This study further enlightens its impact over the success factor in banks providing them an edge over competitors. Primary and secondary researches were two methods to gather an up to date data....

Today's business market is a competitive ground for local and foreign brands. Everyday new ideas flow in the market. New entrants are so frequent that the existing products cannot ignore them. This fact initiates the existing players to go for strategies to retain them in the market and enjoy the increasing revenues. There are many factors that cou...

Job satisfaction has long been an important and interesting area in organizational research. More recently, considerable attention has been focused on the concept of job satisfaction and factors that affect it. A major reason for the tremendous interest in this work attitude is that it has been consistently found to be related to important employee...

Previously security market research had been focused mainly on developed economies with no attention paid to the security markets of developing countries of South East Asia. In an attempt to fill this gap in the literature, this paper conducts an empirical investigation of the random walk of security prices in Pakistani stock markets. The Augmented...

This paper applies multi-index model to Pakistan cement industry firms to find out the relationship of Pakistan cement industry firms to selected market and industry variables. The seven firms selected for this analysis were on the basis of data availability, profitability and performance on the KSE 100 index. The data for the stock prices for the...

This paper examines the propensities of Tajik, Uzbek and Russians towards Islamic work ethics. Epistemology ofIslam demands that Muslim CIS return to the basic construction of Islamic teachings (Choudhury, 1994). This studyuses a sample of 204 employees from several services, educational and non‐governmental organizations of Republicof Tajikistan....

Youth plays a significant role in building of the nation and in the development of a country. Their adoption, aspiration, and objective lead towards change in social value of a culture. Ongoing study investigates the impact of telecom cellular services packages like late night call & unlimited Short Messaging Service (SMS) on the social values of P...

The initiation of the Internet brought a new way of advertising and selling the products. Most of the people use internet for purchasing the goods but there still some reasons due to which people hesitate from online buying. The attitudes of the people towards buying online are different. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors due to w...

The characteristics of entrepreneurial orientation is played important role in business. How do an entrepreneurial firms and individuals have taken the advantage in industry? This study explores the dynamic capabilities of the organization according to international performance. Our findings indicates the positive impact on dynamic capabilities of...

The Islamic banking system is attaining enormous development. Several modern international conventional banks were also enchanting significant concern and starting Islamic banking branches in their organizations, which work in compliance with the specific Islamic Shariah principles in a number of states of Pakistan. The Islamic banking structure is...

The objective of the study is to examine the stock returns variation to specific economic variables by applying multi-factor model developed under Arbitrage Pricing Theory. The variables in the model are descriptive of the market and economic conditions of the country. The study attempts to determine which, if any, of the variables are of use in ex...

Investment behavior of an investor depends on his/her risk perception and risk attitude. This paper attempts to explore that how the perception of an investor who is also the employee of that organization differs from other investors. Does he/she perceives risk similarly as other common investors or his relationship with the organization as an empl...

This study enhances the awareness of stakeholders about the financial management practices and their role to improve performance and growth of the Pakistani corporate sector. This study measures the impact of financial management practices on organization performance, application level and awareness of the financial analysts of the companies. Theor...