Muhammad Rafiq

• PhD, Enterprise Management
• Associate Professor. Manager training and developement ID-92 at Superior University

This study investigates the influence of team green human resource management (TGHRM) on team pro-environmental behavior (T-PEB) in the hospitality sector, where teamwork plays a pivotal role in achieving sustainability goals. Given the growing emphasis on environmental practices within service industries, understanding how team-level initiatives c...

Purpose Research in the field of intrapreneurial behaviour (IB) is developing in terms of the personality results of employees in various occupations. An important developing field is the study of how personality traits (PTs) influence occupational results. While previous theories like situationism focus on the impact of situations, the role of sit...

Purpose This study is an attempt to explore the determinants of entrepreneurial intentions in the context of family business background. There is a dearth of studies on the relationship between family business and entrepreneurial intentions. Three constructs of social cognitive theory (SCT) have been applied as mediators: self-efficacy, subjective...

Purpose Many studies have explored the relationship between green human resource management practices (GHRM) and employees’ green creative behavior (EGCB) within the hospitality industry. However, most prior studies have relied primarily on mono-method approaches, thereby limiting the depth of understanding about the underlying mechanism through wh...

The pursuit of sustainability has become a crucial goal for enterprises globally in the current business environment. This chapter emphasizes the need of incorporating several aspects of sustainability, including the green workplace, eco-sustainability, innovative human resources practices and policies, hybrid work designs, and the shift from linea...

Purpose This study aims to examine the influence of team-level green human resource management practices (TGHRM) on team-level green creative behavior (TGCB) through team green psychological climate (TGPC). Additionally, it delves into the moderating effects of ethical leadership (EL) and green culture (GC) on the relationships among team-level GHR...

Purpose The determination of human behaviours due to individual characteristics (personality traits) or situational factors has long remained inconclusive. Although the literature stream on personality as the determinants of behaviour is voluminous, the interest of researchers is also growing towards organisational situational cues as the determina...

The primary purpose of this research is to explain the importance of a significant aspect of a sustainable environment: green packaging. Green packaging has been revealed to have an astounding effect on a sustainable environment. Misuse of carbon products negatively affects the environment and pollutes the surroundings to a great extent, for which...

Purpose Using trait activation theory (TAT), this paper aims to empirically assess that work drive (WD) personality characteristics of employees will express better towards intrapreneurial behaviour (IB) outcomes in higher levels of job autonomy (JA) at the workplace. Design/methodology/approach Using cross-sectional design, a total of 258 enginee...

Objective: This study examines the asymmetric impact of both internal (military, education, and health expenditures) and external (trade opening and foreign direct investment) factors that contribute to poverty reduction. Methodology: To find an asymmetric relationship between the proposed variables, we used a non-linear ARDL co-integration approac...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the role of environmentally specific authentic leadership (ESAL) and cognitive-affective path systems (team passion and goal clarity) in enhancing green creativity at the team level. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from hotel employees through a structured questionnaire. Findings According to...

Purpose The present study enriches the person-situation debate by developing and testing a theoretical model on the nexus between empowering leadership (EL) and intrapreneurial behaviour (IB) in the presence of a strong organisational situation of perceived organisational support (POS). Design/methodology/approach Cross-sectional survey data colle...

Purpose In this study, the situation strength theory (SST) has been applied to assess the predictability of empowering leadership (EL) in explaining intrapreneurial behaviour (IB) under the strong situation effect of job autonomy (JA). Design/methodology/approach The proposed theoretical framework was assessed using cross-sectional survey data fro...

The study aims to investigate the impact of compulsory citizenship behavior on mental health issues of the police employees and mediating role of job stress. The data of 577 police employees were collected by using a convenient sampling technique from Lahore, Pakistan. The internal reliability and confirmatory factor analysis results confirm the in...

The impact of compulsory citizenship behavior on employees’ turnover intention was intended to measure with mediating role of job stress in this study. The data of 400 police employees were collected by using a convenient sampling technique from Lahore, Pakistan. The internal reliability and confirmatory factor analysis results confirmed the intern...

The leadership style that is most appropriate for the given circumstance will determine whether or not a leader is successful. It means what great leaders should do while working with a diverse workforce. They should be emotionally intelligent in order to understand their team members and modify their leadership style in order to achieve the best o...

Purpose Employees’ personalities towards occupational outcomes have significantly gained academic attention. Personality traits (PTs) of employees as the determinant of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) outcomes research domain is emerging. This paper aims to assess extraversion PT activation for CE outcome under the problem-solving conflict handling...

The outburst of COVID-19 epidemic has enforced the higher education sector to revamp customary mode of teaching and assessing students learning. This study is a portrayal of online education and intended to critically examine how online education during COVID-19 fostered a combination of favorable and unfavorable outcomes which might disrupt and re...

The omnipresence of risk prevails in almost every aspect of human life. Individuals and societal factors are pivotal in the decision-making process to judge acceptability and tolerability of risk. Tolerability of risk (ToR) is characterized by dynamism pinned in the process of decision making that helps to gauge the society and individual’s risk. T...

Employee green behavior is a kind of environmentally friendly working environment that forms a key foundation for the execution of a company's current plan for sustainable growth. How does the pro-environmental attitude of an employee affect how they do their activities? We investigated the connection between the pro-environmental attitudes and emp...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the role of nature and nurture in students’ entrepreneurial intention (EIs). In doing so, the study examines the relationship between prenatal testosterone exposure (2D:4D), risk-taking propensity, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and EIs. Moreover, the moderating role of entrepreneurial education between entrepr...

Accounting conservatism (AC) is one of the components of financial reporting, and has been widely studied by academicians to identify its impact on information quality. Scholars in accounting have started to explore how AC is related to different fundamental functional areas of organizations. The interest of the scholars has resulted in an increasi...

Organizational strategic programs are continuously evolving and gaining the attention of policy makers in order to construct organizations’ ecological and socioeconomic systems. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the balanced scorecard (BSC) and sustainable development involving the mediated effect of political and reg...

Ostracism in the workplace has emerged as the burning issue for organizations, that grabbed the attention of researchers, practitioners and academicians to help corporate world. Thus, every organization is wandering the result-oriented solution to this issue to get employees satisfied and motivated. The research used ostracism as an independent, em...

The role of management practices in the success of renewable energy organizations is not negligible because management practices are the backbone of any organization. Energy organizations are facing drastic environmental issues; therefore, the sector inevitably requires environment- friendly production, which is only possible through the deployment...

Entrepreneurial intention (EI) has been widely cited as one of the foremost predecessors of entrepreneurship which fosters business opportunities to minimize the dependence on employment. Since it is worth noticing how one's EI is formed; therefore, the prime purpose of this paper is to estimate the underlying concepts of proactive personality (PP)...

The field of human resource management is ever emerging and evolving. Since its inception, it has faced abundant hues and cries. The purpose of this study is to give a holistic and integrative view of HRM concepts and usages. So, this study is based on a meta-analysis of the literature of current major practices used in different ways. The study ex...

The study was carried out to investigate the empirical effect of a strategic management system on sustainable development by using a balanced scorecard (BSC), as a theoretical lens, and organizational performance, as an intervening variable. The study incorporated a positivism research paradigm in order to address the objective nature of research....

Think Globally, Act Locally" is becoming urge for enterprises. Political regulation are essential to be considered while moving from home country to host county for long term investments like investing in energy sector. Conventional wisdom holds that multinational enterprises (MNEs) pose less investment in the countries who have greater risk-the ri...

In this current technological and challenging environment, innovation capabilities are fundamental determinants for firms to be innovative, competitive and competent for sustainable development. Organizations are striving to build up those capabilities for continuous innovation development and implementation. Current literature on innovation capabi...

This research focuses on the impact of entrepreneurship education on the intention and desire for venture creation among university students of Pakistan. The study describes the main effects found in the literature and data analysis how non entrepreneur graduates are low hanging fruit than entrepreneurial graduates. This study uses positivism parad...

A supply chain is an interconnected network of many suppliers, producers, wholesalers, distributors, transporters and retailers through which materials are obtained, transformed, produced to finish goods and delivered to the end customer. Supply chain is consisting of activities concerned with the flow and conversion of goods from raw material to f...