Muhammad Saqib Khan

• Doctor of Business Administration
• Assistant Professor at Gomal University

Objective This study investigates the relationship between leadership behaviors and employees' organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in government higher education institutions (HEIs) in Rawalpindi, Punjab. Methods The population consisted of approximately 3,000 employees across four HEIs and one sub-campus. A multi-stage sampling technique wa...

This study aims to explore the influence of entrepreneurial passion in linking entrepreneurial education and intentions in the higher education institutions (HEIs) as entrepreneurial passion is positive intense spirits that entrepreneurs experience toward their work to ensure creativity and innovation. Literature revealed that entrepreneurial educa...

Article Info Abstract Article History The education enhances human abilities to play their role in making a conducive environment, which can preserve their social and secure. In this way, the basic tasks fall upon shoulders of concerned teachers who over their competencies, knowledge, skills and abilities can produce committed and motivated employe...

This study aimed to explore the effect of transformational leadership styles (head of departments) on the organizational commitment of the teachers functioning in different higher education institutions (HEIs) of Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). In the same line, the present study explored also the mediating role of motivation (intrinsic) in the link...

The success of transformational leadership is possible if the followers/subordinates feel the heat of individualized consideration by leader, the environment of inspired motivation and intellectual stimulation. The value of individualized consideration by the follower inspires him/her to accept leader as a role model (idealized influence). However,...

Decision making in the legal domain is often a complex task that involves gathering a large amount of information, analyzing issues, legislation and precedents, as well as evaluating feasible options. A lot of work has been done in the field of semantic similarity with multiple approaches in general-purpose domains. The role of semantic similarity...

COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a global health emergency. It poses a serious challenge to healthcare professionals since they provide healthcare facilities to affected population in extremely stressful circumstances, which may affect their psychological wellbeing. Keeping this in mind, this study was conducted to understand the psychological impa...

The current research study tries to find the impact of various demographic variables that affects top management capabilities to define their role as leaders in the higher education sector of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. As the number of HEIs is increasing, the role of their leaders is also pivotal to get success for their organizations. For this...

Physical education is a part of general education. It is taught through physical activities. It helps the individual to grow and control his body. His program usually consists of organized physical activities, in addition to physical exercise and sports. The program often includes the principles of physical hygiene and public health and health issu...

Purpose of Study: The present study aimed to examine the leadership styles (transformational & transactional) in predicting the innovative work behavior of the teacher in higher educational institutions. Leadership is important in the transformation of attitude and behavior of followers towards assigned responsibilities, however, which style is mor...

This paper highlights how financial and conventional bank system contribute to economic growth. As the Islamic banking system is grounded on shariah’s laws and Usury/RIBA (interest) are prohibited in Islam so there will be no tax shield in this banking system and they have to pay more tax as compared to the conventional banking system. By analyzing...

The study attempts to figure out the relationship between the performance of the firms and corporate governance in Pakistan. Governance mechanisms used in this study are CEO duality, Independence of Board, Size of Board, and Ownership Concentration. While, the ROA and ROE have been used as dependent variables to measure the performance of firms. Us...

Purpose of the Study: The key purpose of the study was to know the perceptions of stakeholders (Principals, Teachers, Students, and Parents) regarding economic (financial) adjustment of Public, Private Schools, and Deeni Madaris students in society. Methodology: The study was a survey (cross-sectional) in nature. The population of the study consist...

Purpose of the study: This study aims to examine the effect of emotional intelligence on emotional dissonance and innovative work behavior by collecting data from the employees working in higher education institutions of KP, Pakistan. Methodology: The study is cross-sectional which ensured a methodological approached to analyze the data to chase th...

The credibility of higher education institutions hinges upon certain dynamic factors among which leadership has widely been considered and validated as the most critical in all respects. Similarly, leadership styles have been measured as the potential and significant predictor for various organizational outcomes. Among all, transformational and tra...

The stress is the main issue that affects individuals’ life from each dimension like their social and professional lives. The occupational stress is the employee anxieties and worries about his/her work which is basically result of various dynamic issues like working environment, working load and poor relationships with colleagues and immediate sup...

The purpose of the current study is to determine the relationship between workplace ostracism and counterproductive work behaviour (CPWB) among banking sector employees in Pakistan. However defensive silence, employee's emotional exhaustion, and the role of job dissatisfaction are also assessed through a sequential meditational approach. For this p...

Print media for communication is reliable as compared to any other media, it can be kept as a record and I could be available at any time anywhere. Commonly it is famous that the "ink and paper" way of communication is known as print media. Pakistan is a developing country in South Asia and Hazara Division is one of its developing regions. The role...

COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis. It has affected the working lives and psychological health of orthopedic surgeons in Pakistan. However, there is a lack of research on this topic, therefore the current study has examined the effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on the working lives and psychological health of orthopedic surgeons in Pakistan. Us...

The purpose of this study was to highlight views of university level learners regarding the use of WhatsApp for English language learning proficiency development at university level. Major objectives of the study were: to find out perceptions of university level learners regarding WhatsApp use in English language learning proficiency development (a...

Universities are the strategic assets of Pakistan, however, in the recent years, universities are facing challenges, and resultantly academicians are experiencing job stress. Moreover, academicians need solution for coping with their job stress. Keeping this in view, the determinants of job stress in academic of Pakistan were examined through a cro...

Organizational culture is supposed to be characterized by sharing of positive norms and values that are in the favor of every single member of the organization. Every member has self-respect and trust in the organizational practices. If employees are satisfied with their work and relationship with different aspects of the organization , the organiz...

The study aimed to examine the influence of the organizational justice dimensions on the employees’ performance by analyzing views of faculty members from higher educational institutions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. Organizational justice from different dimensions has been widely explored in a different context however, limited research is...

The interactional justice is the implementation of equality in the decisions, policies, procedures and methods or simply the interrelationships between the management and employees. Obviously, at the group level, interactional justice determines the employees' satisfaction from the leadership and management behaviour, which leads to better employee...

This study is an attempt to examine whether leadership styles (transformational & transactional) have any effect on the commitment of employees, working in PESCO. The current study also examined the facilitating role of job stress in connection amid employees’ commitment and leadership styles that whether the job stress affects this relationship or...

The leadership is an important phenomenon that is widely recognized and researched in the context of educational institutions. However, this role is more critical in higher educational context due to its imperative role in the developmental process in both developed as well as developing countries. The leadership through different traits has been r...

The job performance is vital phenomenon in the context of education sector as educational institutions might be able to obtain desired ranking only when the employees are motivated to show their best performance. There are many hindrances which are responsible to affect the employees’ performance and institutions wherein job stress is more critical...

Performance management is a phenomenon of greater importance for all organizations including the institutions of higher education (HEIs) to attain their desired ranking in competitive situations. The performance is considered as building blocks for organizations to survive and to more towards development. Numerous factors are responsible to influen...

Mobile learning and digital communication are known as the most advanced tool to get competitive edge over other in the current globalized world. The current research study tries to investigate the adaptation of mobile acceptance model among teachers in District Bannu. Researchers try to investigate the teachers' attitude, performance and learning...

English is an international language and plays a pivotal role in our education system that is why different methods are used for English language teaching learning process at primary level to improve learning teaching process, that is why the present study was conducted to highlight the audio-visual aids’ role in process of teaching learning at the...

The employees’ performance is the building block for the organizations to attain competitive edge over the competitors in the contemporary competitive situations. The organizations including the higher institutions, are direly needed to focus on employees’ performance if these institutions are serious in reflecting their desired standing. However,...

It is highly essential for modern businessmen to get awareness and expertise about online business and e-trading in this technological era. Study was cross-sectional. Stakeholders of study were students, parents, teachers and principals of all Deeni Madaris and public and private secondary schools in Southern districts of KP, Pakistan. The main obj...

In contemporary leadership theories, the proposition that leaders, who employ performance-based rewards and punishment are more effective than those leaders who use rewards and punishments just as incentives. Some researchers believe that punishments act as a motivational tool to promote responsiveness and improve performances of the employees whil...

Students centered approach of learning plays a pivotal role in teaching learning process at secondary level. It is an important way of learners’ engagement and utilization of learners’ talents in a systematic way. That is why keeping in view the immense global importance of leaners centered approach of teaching English language; the present studywa...

Respect means due regard for the rights of others, wishes and feelings on the behalf of their achievements, qualities and abilities. The study was cross-sectional in nature. The population comprised of principals, teachers, parents and students of all Public, Private schools and Deena Madras of Southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Th...

The leading attribute of ‘transactional-leadership’ is ‘contingent-rewards’ which is supposed to be generating positive outcomes from the employees’ performance. For example, the ‘employee-responsiveness’ is increased when employees are rewarded for their worthy performances. The robotic behaviors by leadership have apprehensions of uninvited effec...

The leading attribute of ‘transactional-leadership’ is ‘contingent-rewards’ which is supposed to be generating positive outcomes from the employees’ performance. For example, the ‘employee-responsiveness’ is increased when employees are rewarded for their worthy performances. The robotic behaviors by leadership have apprehensions of uninvited effec...

In contemporary leadership theories, the proposition that leaders, who employ performance-based rewards and punishment are more effective than those leaders who use rewards and punishments just as incentives. Some researchers believe that punishments act as a motivational tool to promote responsiveness and improve performances of the employees whil...

This study evaluated the effects of natamycin and Lactobacillus plantarum on the chemical composition, microbial community, and aerobic stability of Hybrid pennisetum at different temperatures. Different concentrations of natamycin (0.50 g L⁻¹, 1.00 g L⁻¹, and 1.50 mg L⁻¹) significantly (p > 0.05) reduced the growth of undesirable microorganisms. D...

The study investigated the effect of three fungicides Bavistin®, Aliette®, and Biomagic® at the rate of 2 g/L were tested In vitro and In vivo to control dry root rot and their impact on yield were evaluated at the rate of 4 g/L against R. bataticola while varieties used were Karak-1, Karak-2, Karak-3, and Sheenghar. Disease severity was recorded l...

Child labor is one of the most paralyzing community issues which not only afflict our country but the world as a whole since it has a severe & adverse impact on the child’s psychosocial development. A sequential exploratory approach (QUAL+QUAN) was applied by the researcher to collect required data through a structured protocol of interviews of chi...

Depressive symptoms are globally increasing among the female population. Young female students are particularly vulnerable to depression because they pass through the age of transition where they have to accept new roles and responsibilities. Female students perceive such transition as very stressful. Besides this, certain other associated risk fac...

The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of dietary supplementation of Pinus ponderosa leaves (pine leaves) and α-tocopherol acetate (vitamin E) powder on male reproductive system, serum metabolites and carcass characteristics of Japanese quails. A total of 360-day-old male quails were purchased from the open market and kept at poult...

The current study focus on performance politics regarding appraisal in order to analyze the performance of employees, to interpret job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and employee's turnover in the banking sector of Pakistan. At the same time, employees' intrinsic motivation and satisfaction will were investigated as possible mediators. Vo...

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of pine needles and vitamin E powder on blood biochemistry and carcass characteristics of female Japanese quails. A total of 180 female Japanese quails were obtained from the open market and maintained at deep litter housing pens system for 42 days. After adaptation, all female quails were divided...

The main objective of the research study was to know the usage pattern of cyber communication by the universities students of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). It was a descriptive and survey analytical research. The population of the study was all universities students of KP. 800 students were selected from 6 universities of KP. The collected data were pro...

The present study aims to investigate dynamic connection between transformational leadership and employee’s performance (Task performance and OCB) with mediating Perception Emotional intelligence (EI) in Higher Education Institutions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The relationship between the variables of the current model is based upon different theories...

The present study aims to investigate dynamic connection between transformational leadership and employee's performance (Task performance and OCB) with mediating Perception Emotional intelligence (EI) in Higher Education Institutions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The relationship between the variables of the current model is based upon different theories...

The leadership styles and employees’ commitment are widely research topic explored around the globe in different contexts. Keeping in view this trend, the current study also “examined the impact of leadership” styles and employee commitment by collecting data from employees hailing from PESCO, Pakistan. The survey approach for data collection has b...

The entrepreneurship has been widely described by researchers as intermingling of the different innovative techniques used by the individuals through risk taking behavior to avail the available business opportunity. The entrepreneurship has some positive as well as negative consequences for individual who desired to invest their resources in the bu...

Fear badly affects the brain architecture of memory and learning; students who confront fatal and chronic fearful experiences often lose their learning capacities due to which they either show poor academic and low learning performance or failing grades (Arnsten, 2009). The study was descriptive in nature. All 10th class students in North Wazirista...

The leadership is the only phenomenon that is solely responsible for the success and failure of every organization including the higher education institutions. In the same line, the commitment, on the part of employees and leadership is also considered as determining factor for success of institutions. Similarly, motivation play a significant role...

Social media is basically a social networking system used for social interaction, social relations and social interaction among the people of the world, similarly, on the other side English is a language and language is basically is a source or means of communication that is why the present study was conducted on university level learners to highli...

It is essentialto maintain regularity, discipline, punctuality and proper environment within the school to show better academic achievement at Secondary School level. The main objective of the study was to determine comparison between the academic performance of Public and Private Schools' male students on the basis of regularity, discipline, punct...

The negative impacts of mastitis on milk production pose a challenge to the profitability and sustainability of small scale dairy enterprises, thereby affecting the social welfare of farmers. The prevalence and epidemiological profile of Caprine mastitis in Botswana remains undocumented. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence o...

The entrepreneurship has been widely described by researchers as intermingling of the different innovative techniques used by the individuals through risk taking behavior to avail the available business opportunity. The entrepreneurship has some positive as well as negative consequences for individual who desired to invest their resources in the bu...

Nightmares badly influence health and learning. Population of the study comprised of all boys and girls of Secondary Schools in NWA whereas (n=403) respondents, 202(50.12%) boys and 201(49.88%) girls were taken as sample from the entire population. Face-to-face questionnaire was used to collect data from respondents through stratified random sampli...

We live in the age of technology, competition, and social networking. Now the whole world is like a signal country. All most all the people, male and female from boys to old age people and from the lower class people to the upper class use various social media tools for variety of purposes. Now due to this reason the researcher conducted the study...

Social media is one of the most important sources of communication in this technological age which enables the people to share their views and thoughts with other friends, relatives, colleagues, class fellows, and teachers without any problem of distance. Therefore, purpose of this study was to highlight the role of social media, and to compare the...

Depression is that psychological problem in which adolescents are sad and broken down; they feel loneliness and mostly show th symptoms like low self-esteem, self blame, hopelesnees, suicide thought, anger and bad temper (Elgard and Arlett, 2002). The main purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between depression and students' healt...

Education is the only means which can lead social and economic development of any society. Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) play a pivotal and prominent role to support and uplift the educational standards. Unfortunately, number of experienced and qualified teachers is not proportionate to the requirement of HEIs. The established yardstick by...

Child Labour has emerged as a serious, widespread and rapid growing problem in many parts of the world. Child Labour is a socioeconomic issue, which not only wrecks the social growth, but also damages the moral fabrics of our society. The in hand paper not only highlights this very issue, but also have a close look at its major inverse effect on Un...

The purpose of the study was to explore the impact of drone attacks psychotrauma on students' academic achievement at secondary level in North Waziristan Agency. The study was descriptive in nature. The population of the study constituted of all male and female students of Secondary Schools in North Waziristan Agency. There were total 40 Secondary...

This ongoing paper draws upon the role of A.V aids in the schooling learning process usually used at Elementary level in education. The on hand study was a survey by type. The entire teaching staff and learners at Elementary level in District Bannu comprised of the population while 366 Elementary level teachers including 2002 learners at the rate o...

Leadership and the different associated styles have an immense impact on how employees perform and grow towards progressive organizational outcomes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of leadership styles on the organizational commitment with mediating behavior of motivation. For ages, leadership has been a subject of much refle...

Because of war hazards and U. S. drone attacks used in North Waziristan Agency, the researcher did a novel research on the impact of diarrhea on students' mental, physical health and learning performance at school level including their academic performance and academic achievement in North Waziristan Agency. It was descriptive type study and all 9...

Social Media plays a pivotal role in this modern technological era. Facebook is one of the most important tools of Social Media which is used by millions of users and most frequently visited web-site therefore, the present study was conducted to find out the effect of Facebook on enhancement of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' writing...

Leadership is assumed to play a leading role in creating and sustaining the employees' commitment in the institution. It also develops the potential, capability and performance of the employees through the attribute of inspirational motivation. In this regard, the present study is the short review to analyze the leadership impact on employees' comm...

There are various social media sources which play a significant role in English as foreign language learning, one of those social media tools are skype which play a pivotal role in the development of English learning proficiency among the young energetic learners at university level. That is why the present study was conducted to highlight the role...

Economic profitability of production of tobacco in Swabi, KPK, Pakistan was investigated through the structured questionnaire and personal interview method during 2013 from five purposively selected villages. 65 sampled respondents were investigated during the study. Farm budgeting technique was applied to estimate cost, gross return and net revenu...

This study examines the profitability and efficiency of domestic and foreign banks of Pakistan during 2006-2010. The type of ownership of banks was divided into domestic and foreign banks. To measure the profitability and efficiency, we used interest spread, net interest margin, return on equity and return on assets and non-interest income to total...

The study was descriptive in nature. The population of the study consisted of all 10 th class students of Govt High Schools in North Waziristan Agency. Four hundred & three respondents were selected as sample from the selected Govt High Schools through Simple Random Sampling Technique in North Waziristan Agency. The study was delimited to only 10 t...

The Current research study

Education is the prime needs of the humanity since the origin of this world. An educated society is the sign of social advancement which has a vast impact upon the economic development. In this regard, the educational status of an individual and the society as a whole is a prime obligation of the state that plans, legislates, finances, facilitates...

Education is considered as a viable tool for developing human capacities and capabilities towards eliminating threats that may make the environment secured. The teacher as the implementer of the academic curriculum is central in achieving the aims and objectives of using education as a tool for inculcation into the learner, knowledge, skills and at...

Banking sector plays a significant role in the development of a country, that's why the financial advisors of the country place a high priority on the growth of the banking sector. Efficient banking system gives direction to the basic policies regarding micro and macro level stability and instability. There is a huge body of literature which confir...

The coercion to uplift an economy in a right way to growth is more a mystery than a fact. Every country in the world is determined to be amongst the strong economies of the world. This draws a line of difference between developed and developing economies of the world. Developed countries have strong economies as compared to the developing countries...

Child labour has emerged as a serious, widespread and rapid growing problem in many parts of the world. Child labour is a socioeconomic issue, which not only wrecks the social growth but also damages the moral fabrics of our society. The on hand paper not only highlights this very issue but also have a close look at its major inverse affect on Univ...

Pakistan enjoys good relations with Iran since the partition of sub-continent. Both the countries have successful agreements regarding the different socioeconomic fields. Relations between Iran and Pakistan have spanned since the common prehistoric Indo-Iranian heritage. The Western region of Pakistan was one part of the easternmost satrap's provin...

This study is conducted to measure the influence of social media over the democratic behavior of the students. Social media is the main component of political participation in democratic societies and the study of democratic behavior is a highly specialized sub-field in political and social science. The study was concerned with the reasons that to...

The study was on the Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on the students and his/her information to access in the Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan. A sample of 50 respondents (students) was selected from the department of Political science, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. However, related lit...

The aim of the current research was to determine the relationship between the time management skills and academic achievement of the students. Time management is very important and it may actually affect individual's overall performance and achievements. However, all of these are related by how individuals manage their time to suit their daily livi...

Voting is the main form of political participation in democratic societies and the study of voting behavior is a highly specialized sub-field in political and social science. The study was concerned with the reasons why people vote the way they do and what is the role of violence on the voting behavior. The main objectives of the present study were...

Locus of control because of its importance as your locus of control says a lot about how you view the world and your role in determining the course of your life. Present study investigates the relationship among demographic groups and research variables. The literature does provide support for the relevant relationship among these variables; howeve...

The perimeter of this article ranges to the limited and perceptual dimension of the business particularly in the Islamic Banks. The main objective of this article was to comprehend that whether the Islamic banks are practicing the principles of Islam in their true spirit or the same banking system is only coated by the word 'Islamic' to win the cli...

For the economic development and poverty alleviation of any state, academicians are the role model of the system, accountable for producing specialized workforce. This role becomes more important in the background of the developing countries (DCs). In the current research, the researcher made an effort to investigate the impact of job satisfaction...