Muhammad Aamir Shafique Khan

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Jiangsu University

Organizational cronyism is a pervasive phenomenon in the South Asian region, where favors are granted to certain employees (i.e., associates, friends, acquaintances, etc.) based on non-merit factors that result in the formation of in-groups and out-groups. The current study aimed to find out the impact of organizational cronyism on out-group employ...

Several studies have unveiled that green human resource management (GHRM) positively affects employees' voluntary green behaviors at work. However, the literature has overlooked the influence of GHRM on employee beyond‐work green activism—employees' participation in different environmental campaigns and initiatives and supporting/influencing organi...

Based on the reality that insufficient motivation for production and consumption of green products in China, the factors and solutions of this issue have become current research focus. However, related studies have hardly paid attention to the logic of interdependence and interconnection between supply and demand sides on the opts of traditional or...

Purpose Using the conservation of resources (COR) theory, the present study aims to examine the role of participative leadership in frontline service employees (FLEs)’ service recovery performance. The present study also tests FLEs’ role breadth self-efficacy (RBSE) as a theoretically relevant mediator and FLE trait mindfulness as an important mode...

Purpose The study was initiated to test the relationship of social media site addiction on librarians' performance. Furthermore, the study also tested the mediating role of task distraction and moderating role of effective self-control in aforesaid relationship. Design/methodology/approach This was an empirical study, and data for the research wer...

Given the dearth of research examining the distinctions across various facets of employee knowledge-hiding (KH) behaviors, there is little known about why and when leadership negatively influences playing dumb and evasive hiding but positively influences rationalized hiding. The present study fills this void by hypothesizing that employee justice o...

Industrial parks make great contributions to the local economy, society, and culture, but they have also encountered many problems, such as limited resources, the longevity of ecological restoration, and the contagion of safety accidents. As a socioeconomic and ecological composite system formed by the interaction of multiple stakeholders, the solu...

Our study focuses on the role of foreign capital which includes foreign direct investment , foreign aid, and economic freedom in poverty alleviation in developing and underdeveloped countries by using panel data from 1995 to 2018 for 71 countries. In the pursuit of achieving our objective, we employed several econometric techniques such as dynamic...

“Green innovation” and “green products” are buzzwords in the current era. However, consumers habitually resist innovative appliances that differ from the conventional ones. This study investigates the influence of green innovation practices on consumer resistance to green innovation products and the moderating influence of environmental awareness a...

The present study examines the role of death anxiety as an important mechanism underlying the relationship between fear of Covid-19 and hotel frontline employees’ (FLEs) sense of work alienation. Importantly, the study proposes FLEs’ intrinsic spirituality as being a relevant boundary condition. Results, based on time-lagged survey data (three roun...

There is a lot of loving going on in the offices. The fact is that we are all human beings and when you put human beings together for 8 or 10 hours a day stuff is just going to happen which have its impact. This study examines the effect of lateral heterosexual workplace romance on employee performance. We examined the role of relational capital an...

Based on the theory of planned behavior, this paper presents a study on the core components of attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavior control, and introduces a moral emotional variable, namely environmental indebtedness, as the emotional factors in the attitude variable to explore the influencing factors and mechanism of consumer green purch...

This study advances research on workplace romance, employees’ work-related attitudes, and discretionary work behaviors by drawing on a positive psychology theory to theorize interrelations between workplace romance, job involvement, and employees’ work effort and provide empirical evidence of these interrelations. Data were collected in two waves (...

This book sheds light on how businesses are the lifeblood of any economy, but traditional businesses were customizing natural resources without considering the effects of their practices on the future. The incidents like increase in the global temperatures, coral bleaching of the great barrier reef due to all the waste that is being dumped by the f...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a critical role in countries' economic growth (specifically developing countries). Such economic growth requires environment-friendly business practices to achieve the green innovation performance goals of SMEs. To examine predictors of green innovation performance, the data were collected from 1121 em...

Using a pump in reverse mode as a hydraulic turbine remains an alternative for hydropower generation in meeting energy needs, especially for the provision of electricity to remote and rural settlements. The primary challenge with small hydroelectric systems is attributed to the high price of smaller size hydraulic turbines. A specific commercial pu...

Purpose This study examines the impact of network embeddedness (NE) on innovation performance in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and analyses absorptive capacity as mediator and openness as moderator. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 209 employees of SMEs using a convenient sampling technique. Partial least squares...

The increase of social media (SM) has led to continuous deviations in how day-to-day entrepreneurial activities can be carried out. Additionally, studies devoted to SM entrepreneurship and SM are relatively limited and fragmented in their focus. However there is growing interest from scholars, practitioners and academia for upcoming studies and exp...

Several rivers and streams are available in Africa and Asian regions with great potentials not applicable for constructing large hydropower dams but feasible for small and mini hydro generation. This study strive for investigating the impact of splitter blade on pump as turbine performance considering different speed and flow rates. Two specific ce...

Purpose Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can use social media for communicating information with stakeholders with minimal cost. The ability to access and share information influences the SMEs' performance, but there is little scholarship on the association between the adoption of social media and SMEs' performance. This study aims to inve...

Background Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is emerging as a relevant subject in the business world and in the field of management research. Therefore, the current study incorporates classifications often used in organizational level CSR research that distinguish social responsibility relevant to its focus (internal and external), in proposing...

This study aims to investigate the impact of stakeholders’ views on the practices of green innovation (GI), consequent effect on environmental and organizational performance (OP), and moderating influence of innovation orientation. A quantitative method was employed for the sample size of 515 responses. To accumulate the data from the respondents,...

Generally, it is difficult to work efficiently in a toxic environment. Surprisingly, leaders are found to be liable for such toxic atmosphere because they possess certain traits that employees perceive as victimization. This research assesses the relationship between the dark triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and perceived victi...

This study seeks to identify the influence of organizational compatibilities on green supply chain management (GSCM) efforts and estimate their influence on organizational performance. This study also explores the mediating influence of information technology (IT) capabilities on the association between GSMC efforts and organizational performance (...

This study investigates the relationship between supervisory behavior, conflict management strategies, and sustainable employee performance and inquires the mediating effect of conflict management strategies. Data were collected from the SMEs of the manufacturing industry of Pakistan. The significance of the model was assessed using the PLS-SEM (st...

This study investigated the role of entrepreneurial passion in recognition of opportunity, developing entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial intention, in the shaping of entrepreneurial actions in the presence of proactive personality. This study applied partial least squares structural equation modeling to test the hypotheses on a samp...

Interest in individual-level outcomes of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is gaining momentum in academic and managerial circles. This study investigated whether employees attributed different motives to CSR efforts and if these motives influenced employee's extra-role behaviors (proactivity, knowledge sharing, creativity , and adaptivity). We...

The purpose of this article is to identify the effects of dark tetrad personality traits (such as narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism and sadism) on counterproductive work behavior with the mediating role of psychological contract breach and the moderating effect of political skills. Previous researches have focused on the direct effect of th...

The core aim of this study is not only to explore the new phenomenon of mobile government (m-govt) security response systems (SRS) but also to identify some important factors from the user's perspective in order to build a strong and acceptable m-govt SRS for crisis management. In a comprehensive research model, the relationships between constructs...

The research explores key factors impacting enterprise operational sustainability and the ability to transcend adversity during different stages of a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study draws from the Theory of Crisis Management Teams, the Stakeholder Theory, and the Distributed Cognition Theory to build an "Enterprise Effectiv...

Knowledge sharing between individuals is a key process for knowledge-intensive organizations to create value and gain a competitive edge. An individual is in the center of a complex set of factors, which are conducive to the knowledge-sharing process. The purpose of this empirical study is to explain the interaction mechanisms between personality a...

The main aim of the study was to empirically investigate the mediating role of organizational commitment (OC) & person-organization fit (POF) between the causal relationship of supportive work environment (SWE) and employee retention (ER). One thousand questionnaires were sent to the targeted population included employees of all chains of multinati...

The study examined the responsiveness of the environment of Ghana to changes in key economic indicators such as the international trade, energy consumption, urbanization, economic growth, and financial development. Our study utilized the ecological footprint as the indicator for environmental degradation as it encompasses the entire ecosystem that...

For the past decade, the level of carbon dioxide emission in most cities in China is on the ascendancy. Yet, better prediction of environmental pollution is at the fringes of recent studies. Several erstwhile researchers have attempted predicting pollution whilst utilizing approaches including the ordinary linear regressions, multivariate regressio...

Based on the value co-creation theory, this study proposed a theoretical model of the effects of value co-creation on the growth of social enterprises. Primary data using field survey through a close-ended questionnaire was conducted to collect the data from January 2019 to June 2019, and the respondents were employees of social enterprises working...

Divisional Paper session at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management taking place 7-11 August 2020 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Divisional Paper sessions consist of papers with a common theme and a session chair assigned to run the session and lead the discussion.

In a modern working environment characterized by new technology and work assignments extended to personal time, employees are expected to balance multiple roles while maintaining maximum productivity. Past studies analyzed work-family conflict and its connection to job performance, without adequate integration of psychological factors into the rese...

This study investigates the impact of transformational leadership on employee retention in SMEs and probes the mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior and the moderating role of communication. Data were collected using convenience sampling from 505 employees of SMEs. A Smart PLS structured equation model (PLS-SEM) was used to estimate...

We tested the relationship between laissez-faire leadership and job burnout and the mediatory role of work alienation in this relationship. We also examined the moderating role of political skill in the relationship between laissez-faire leadership and burnout. Based on time-lagged (three waves, two months apart) survey data collected from 272 empl...

Purpose The purpose of the present study was twofold. First, this study examined the relationships of work alienation with explorative learning and exploitative learning. Second, the study tested the role of emotional exhaustion as a mediator of the relationships of work alienation with explorative learning and exploitative learning. Job Demands-Re...

Synthesizing theories of ethical leadership, psychological climate, pro-environmental behavior, and gender, first, we proposed and tested a model linking supervisors’ ethical leadership and organizational environmental citizenship behavior via a green psychological climate. Then, we tested the moderating effect of gender on the indirect (via a gree...

The idiosyncratic and knowledge-intense nature of the financial institutions requires them to rely more on intangible than on tangible resources. Over the past two decades, researchers have been motivated to embark on the relationship between intellectual capital (IC) and performance of financial institutions. Considering the knowledge-based intell...

Background: This study aimed to investigate the effect of a high-performance work system (HPWS) on employee performance and the intervening role of mediators in this relationship. Methods: The study was quantitative in nature and used a questionnaire as its instrument. Two hundred and fifty respondents from the private textile sector, located in La...

Purpose The purpose of the present study is twofold. First, we examined the relationship between workplace romance and employee job performance and tested the role of affective commitment foci – namely, affective coworker commitment, affective supervisor commitment, and affective organizational commitment – as parallel mediators in the relationship...

In this study, first we examined the effect of workplace romance on employee job performance, and the mediatory role of psychological wellbeing in the relationship between workplace romance and employee performance. Then we tested the moderating effects of gender and workplace romance type – lateral or hierarchical – on the indirect effect of workp...

All over the world organizations have realized that skilled labor and talented employees develop the organization for better incentives and for improvements. How to reduce employee's turnover intention is a very critical challenge for today's HR managers and supervisors. Pay better incentives , high salaries and employee's motivational techniques h...

Performance Appraisal has drawn an unparalleled and unprecedented attention of researchers over more than last three decades. Selection of an appropriate and suitable performance appraisal technique has all the times been a point of concern for most of academicians as well as managers. The idea to do this study is to find the most effective and app...

Current study aims at investigating the comparison of online performance appraisal system in relation with Traditional paper and pencil based performance appraisal system on employees' work outcome and behavior. In this way, the contemporary study will focus on major areas of online performance appraisal system and paper and pencil based performanc...