Muhammad Kashif Imran

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at Islamia University of Bahawalpur

Purpose The purpose of the study is to test the precursors of presenteeism. The research has examined the relationship between workplace bullying and presenteeism via depression and anxiety. Furthermore, moderating the role of toxic leadership is also investigated which may strengthen or weaken workplace bullying and mental health relationships. D...

Purpose Based on the cognitive perspective of self-regulation theory and role balance theory, this study examines the moderating effects of self-efficacy and emotional exhaustion on the indirect path between impaired work–life balance and job performance through psychological depletion. Design/methodology/approach This conceptualized model was tes...

Purpose Based on the conservation of resources and emotional regulation theories, this research seeks to examine the relationship between social rejection and work-deviant behavior with a moderated mediation effect of emotional tolerance and psychological trauma. Design/methodology/approach A three-wave multi-sourced (dyad) data were collected fro...

Concerning psychological training for entrepreneurs, there is always a keen interest in knowing how these training programs yield outcomes. This study sheds light on the individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) training program and how it improves the career resilience of small business owners. The tenet of Action Regulation Theory (ART) was us...

Sustaining high performance is the aim of every organization, yet certain factors impede employee performance and impairment of work-life balance is one of such impediments. Therefore, the current study focuses on linking work-life imbalance to low performance via psychological depletion. Moreover, building on the cognitive perspective of self-regu...

Purpose Despite noted instances of organizational cronyism in public sector Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs), there is a lack of empirical evidence on its detrimental outcomes. The present investigation tested the impact of organizational cronyism on knowledge hiding via the mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating role of egoisti...

In a dynamic and competitive world, organizations need healthy interpersonal relationships in the workplace to achieve success. Within the interpersonal relationship domain, the supervisor–employee bond is the most important that determines the fate of employee performance. Drawing on the conservation of resources and self-control theory, this empi...

Purpose The combination of action and process has remained the attention of the psychology of entrepreneurship research. Moreover, special attention has also been paid to the whens and hows of entrepreneurial psychological training. Keeping this in view the current study has tested the impact of individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) training...

Purpose Based on action regulation theory (ART), this study aims to test the impact of individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) training on small business owner career success (financial attainment, satisfaction and achievement). Moreover, this relationship was unpacked through a dual mediation model of IEO behaviour and career resilience. Des...

Purpose The present research aims to empirically test the “Barriers to abusive supervision model” to find how employee-related (core self-evaluations) and situational factors (perceived job dependency) make an employee trapped in the spiral of supervisory abuse. In addition, the work–family spillover lens is used to explain how employees' retaliati...

The rising importance of entrepreneurial psychological training is witnessed in the current era. This study aims to test the impact of individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) training on small business owners' IEO behaviour, career resilience, and career success (financial attainment, satisfaction, and achievement) via a 4-wave randomized cont...

Purpose The study aims to investigate the impact of workplace ostracism (WO) and fear of the COVID-19 pandemic on the family life of restaurant employees. This research is based on the conservation of resources (COR) theory and work–family interface model to understand the theoretical underpinnings of mistreatment in the food sector during the COVI...

Purpose In the current dynamic world, organizations required rapid changes to meet the increasing demands of their customers. On the other hand, the practice side claims that the majority of the organizational change attempts fail due to resistance from the employee side. Based on the behavioral theory of leadership, the authors examined the relati...

Purpose A paradigm shift toward a corporate model of higher educational settings has led to complex and excess work demands, yet the potential long-run ramifications of work overload are still under-examined. Building the arguments on the “spiral of resource loss” corollary of the conservation of resources (COR) theory, the authors have bridged thi...

Purpose With theoretical underpinnings in the conservation of resources theory, this research aims at understanding the link between workplace ostracism (WPO) and its effects on customers' interests in the context of COVID-19, with the mediation of stress and moderation of self-efficacy (SE). Design/methodology/approach The study followed a time-l...

The current study builds on the recent “Barriers to abusive supervision model” to highlight the role of employee-related (Core self-evaluations) and situational factors (perceived job dependency) that compel employees to trap in the sustained spiral of abusive supervision. Moreover building on the Work-family Spillover realm, the outcomes of abuse...

Complex and excess work demands are a byproduct of corporate model in higher educational settings, however, how work overload manifests in long-run career outcomes is yet to be examined. We therefore built on the ‘primacy of resource loss’ corollary of the Conservation of Resources theory to find out the repercussions of work overload on career res...

Purpose Coworker relationships are important in every organization and especially in higher educational institutions (HEIs); however, ostracism is one of the factors that deteriorate these relationships. This study aims to analyse the impact of coworker ostracism on coworker directed knowledge hiding through the mediating role of relational identif...

Purpose The current study aims to investigate the impact of coworker ostracism on coworker-directed knowledge hiding through the mediating role of relational social capital and moderating role of alternate belongingness in Pakistani higher educational settings. Design/methodology/approach A time-lagged study was carried out in which data from teac...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how alertness enables small and medium scale enterprise (SME) owners to leverage their individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) such as risk-taking, pro-activity, innovation, passion, and perseverance in a better way to recognize opportunities for financial resources as compared to their count...

This study utilized terror management and conservation of resources theory to fulfill its aim of investigating the effects of fear of contamination of COVID-19 on performance of employees in the banking sector of Pakistan. A survey was conducted to collect data in two waves from 206 bank employees in Punjab region. SPSS was used for data analysis....

Purpose This paper draws on the affordance perspective, to explore the social media (SM) usage experiences that might render valuable for academic women professionals, for knowledge exchange, networking and success. Owing to the increased SM usage during COVID-19 pandemic, this paper tries to find out that in what ways do SM affordances facilitate...

Global warming and climate change are the outcomes of excessive carbon emissions (CO2) from the consumption of fossil fuels. To reduce the volume of CO2 and to overcome this challenging environmental problem, it is imperative to encourage renewable energy consumption (REC). Furthermore, environmental regulations can also play a crucial role in prom...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to uncover how peer ostracism (POS) elicits knowledge hiding directed towards ostracizing peers through the intervening role of peer contact quality (PCQ). Moreover, the authors aim to highlight the role of the need to belong (NTB) as a first-order boundary condition in direct and indirect hypothesized paths. D...

Drawing on the self-control perspective, this study investigated the buffering effect of emotional suppression in reducing the harmful influence of workplace ostracism on employee performance. The research also studied the mediating role of employee silence and voice behaviors based on social exchange theory. We performed moderated mediation analys...

Purpose The purpose of this systematic review is to summarize the possible organizational outcomes related to knowledge management capabilities (KMCs). It aims at offering the modern-day dynamic organizations a path, through which they can utilize KMC at hand for gaining competitive advantage and positive organizational outcomes. The review is base...

With theoretical underpinnings in the terror management and conservation of resources theory, this research aims at investigating how the fear of contamination of COVID-19 has affected the performance of employees in the banking sector of Pakistan. The data was collected in two waves, from banks in Punjab region and analyzed through SPSS. The data...

Purpose Ostracism is a subjective and relative concept that renders itself to multiple manifestations and context-specific outcomes. Therefore, this study identified specific behaviours that are perceived as workplace ostracism by teaching faculty of Pakistani Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). Building on belongingness theory, the ramificatio...

Drawing on the social cognitive theory, this research examines the relationship between organizational change leadership and change adaptability with mediating effect of change efficacy and moderating role of cognitive resistance. A longitudinal research design with a three-waved data collection procedure was followed to obtain responses from 246 e...

Purpose Students' satisfaction is termed as their subjective evaluation of the fulfillment of expectations and pleasure experienced from the teaching services. This study intends to examine the role of teachers' work engagement in inculcating students' satisfaction from their teachers taking a self-determination perspective. It moreover highlights...

Purpose In modern times, innovation is considered as a vital component of sustainable competitive advantage. The purpose of this paper is to identify how innovation at the individual level [innovative work behavior (IWB)] and at the organizational level [innovative organizational climate (IOC)] affects the chances of success of a particular project...

The present qualitative inquiry sheds light on the psychological ramifications and behavioral responses of workplace ostracism in Higher Educational Institutes of Pakistan. The data was collected from 20 ostracized teaching faculty members from public and private sector universities through semi-structured interviews. The interviews were recorded,...

Purpose This exploratory inquiry sheds light on the nature of victim (i.e. provocative and passive) and specific work context in shaping the perceived causes and outcomes of felt workplace ostracism in teaching faculty of Pakistani higher educational institutions (HEIs) based on target-centric victimization framework. Design/methodology/approach T...

Organizational cronyism is profoundly ingrained in South Asian small and medium scale business and is responsible for eliciting a variety of negative individual- and organizational-level outcomes. It is a practice where management grants favour to certain employees based on personal relationships forming an “in-group” and discriminates “out-group”...

This paper aims to illuminate the association between workplace ostracism and stress since ostracism is the most prevalent form of mistreatment in modern-day work settings. The study also investigates the moderating role of employees' self-efficacy, gender, and work culture. Data was collected through a survey and structured questionnaires from emp...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how the exclusionary work environment characterized by ostracism impacts full-time faculty experiences and responses in higher educational institutions working in eastern and collectivist culture of Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative phenomenological approach, the data were gat...

Drawing on social exchange and emotional regulation perspectives, this study investigates the role of emotional suppression in reducing the detrimental effects of workplace ostracism on organizational learning. Based on the responses of 162 participants from the financial industry, and with the application of moderated mediation analysis, the findi...

Background Nursing has a reputation for being a predominantly stressful profession. Prior studies focus on the overt antecedents of stress like bullying, harassment, and verbal aggression from patients as well as colleagues. Employee stress has been receiving attention for decades, yet there is a research gap on the role of workplace ostracism as a...

This study investigated the positive and negative behavioral outcomes resulting from the pragmatic and psychological impacts of workplace ostracism experienced by university teachers in Pakistan. Using a qualitative and phenomenological approach, the data were gathered from 20 ostracized teachers working in public and private sector higher educatio...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance the theoretical perspective of complexity leadership paradigm to introduce shared leadership style as a precursor of taking charge behavior in public sector higher educational institutions (HEIs) of Pakistan. Moreover, this study unveils the underlying mechanisms of the climate of initiative and psych...

Although the concept of ostracism in general and workplace ostracism, in particular, has attained the attention of researchers in the last decade; yet the main focus remained on its psychological outcomes. Furthermore, the management researchers failed to express the temporal nature of workplace ostracism based on comprehensive theoretical grounds....

Utilizing the relational framework of diversity management and social role theory, this exploratory study illuminates the career prospects of women working in the patriarchal society of Pakistan. With the help of Nvivo 12 Plus, themes were generated based on 27 in depth, semi-structured interviews. The findings showed an interrelated web of factors...

Learning outcomes The case will offer insight to the students regarding the idea generation and development of a viable sustainable venture. It will promote the understanding of students regarding SDGs and how SMEs can contribute towards their attainment. They will learn to develop the action plan for a green business venture and understand how eac...

Researchers and practitioners are trying hard to analyze the leadership into a widespread and general set of processes, methods, and measures. Attempts are being made by various researchers to discover the best leadership practices having larger success stories. The purpose of this inquiry is to investigate the impact of transformational leadership...

This exploratory study investigated the benefits of social media and to enhance knowledge sharing in the healthcare settings along with identification of challenges and possible solutions. Furthermore, the study elaborated the orientation of doctors about social media applications and in-role and extra-role knowledge sharing in their work settings....

In current study, it was theorized that perceived fairness reduces the detrimental effects of perception of organizational politics on performance outcomes of organizations i.e. organizational commitment, managerial effectiveness and organizational performance. To test this exposition, data of 243 managerial employees of banking sector have been ob...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the benefits of social media to enhance knowledge exchange in the organizations. Moreover, the current qualitative inquiry elaborates the orientation of doctors about social media applications and knowledge exchange in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach The constructionism approach base...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate new emerging organizational parameters and their roles in successful change implementation. These organizational parameters are rarely investigated especially in the context of organizational change (OC) in private and public sector organizations. Design/methodology/approach In cumulative, 403 va...

In recent times, organizations and leaders are focusing on new strategies to increase the success rate of organizational change (OC) implementation. Therefore, this study aims to uncover the sources and role of knowledge sharing (KS) to overcome the challenges of OC implementation.For this research, data have been gathered from respondents based on...

Purpose In the current era, firms are facing difficulties in align into their capabilities with the hallmarks of the knowledge intensive economy. Notwithstanding the fact that employees’ creativity ensures competitive advantage through innovation, firms are unable to reap the required level of performance. This study investigates the linkage among...

Purpose: organizations are keenly interested to find out the causes of work disengagement that are harmful to achieve desired level of performance. Antecedents and levels of work disengagement vary across organizations and sectors due to differences in organizational culture. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to determine the antecedents of w...

Purpose The cultural transformation introduces team orientation as a powerful tool to reconfigure the human capital to become more productive. This research tries to uncover two folds; first is to check the direct effects of employees’ work engagement and rational psychological contract on contextual performance and job satisfaction. Second is to i...

In current era, firms require innovation and competitive advantage for sustained performance. Knowledge management is reported as most widely discussed mechanism for initiating innovation and developing competitive advantage in organizations. Therefore, this study empirically scrutinizes the effects of Knowledge Management Process Capability (KMPC)...

The concept of workplace ostracism and employee silence has achieved considerable attention in field of organizational psychology in recent years. This research examined the relationship of workplace ostracism with facets of employee silence i.e. acquiescent, defensive and diffident silence with mediating role of perceived self-esteem and meaningfu...

Around the globe, transformational shift has surged to develop dynamic capabilities for better performance. One of the objectives behind these drastic swings is to readjust resources for organizational wellbeing. The grafting of updated knowledge resources within the existing capabilities is becoming the vital component to multiply the performance...

The present research is a step toward determining the behavior of corporate customers with regard to the current practices of group/ institutional life insurance institutes. Data were collected from intellectual corporate customers using 18 open-ended questions and interviews. Furthermore, 08 insurance experts were selected from service providers f...

Purpose The most critical phase of a change process is change implementation and it is evident that masterfully originated change process fails due to its poor implementation. Therefore, this study aims to profile how Knowledge Management (KM) strategies, personalization and codification, are helpful in successful change implementation by reducing...

Every economy has three major sectors: manufacturing, trading and services. The contribution of service sector has become increasingly important for countries' economic wellbeing. The education sector has received greater local and foreign direct investment. This research examines the relationships among teacher qualifications, teacher experience,...

Abstract: Purpose In recent times, progression of technology and growing demands of customers have substantially influence the services sector to introduce fast real-time-mechanisms for providing up-to-mark services. To meet these requirements, organizations are going to change their end-user operating systems but success rate of change is very lo...

Indubitably, business organizations have gained competitive edge by promoting intelligence skills and knowledge-sharing behaviors to develop human capital. Therefore, intelligence skills and fostering knowledge-sharing behaviors have received focused attention from knowledge management practitioners, top managements, strategic managers, policy make...

This research accomplishes its aim to investigate the detrimental effects of cynicism on organizational change. It presents an interactive and novel theoretical research model based on organizational cynicism. The study aims to determine the causes of cynicism and suggests remedies for it so that change may be implemented with the consensus of all...

Purpose The transformation of firms from resource-based-view to knowledge-based-view has extended the importance of organizational learning. Thus, this study aims to develop an organizational learning model through transformational leadership with indirect effect of knowledge management process capability and interactive role of knowledge-intensive...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the theoretical linear model on intelligence, i.e. emotional, social, cognitive, and cultural intelligence and its impact on managerial effectiveness and career success in the perspective of insurance sector of Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – Data collected from 202 managers of insuranc...

The market of life Insurance has obtained considerable development with respect to awareness about insurance, terrorism, target killing, and uncertainty in world. In 2014-15, the growth rate was 29% that showed life Insurance market has a key contribution in Pakistan's economy. The core rationale of this research is to investigate the services qual...

The research focuses to investigate the various unique aspects that may have impact on job outcomes during change implementation in a public sector organization. The study has two prime objectives. First objective is to study the association between employees’ withdrawal behavior and personality traits. Second objective is to find factors of organi...