Zahid Mahmood

King Saud Hospital · Management

Prior studies on the dark side of the organisation tend to overlook some important mediator(s) in the relationship between the dark triad personalities (D.T.P.s) and counterproductive work behaviour (C.W.B.). Hence, this study examines the multiple-mediation model by incorporating perceived organisational politics and perceived accountability in th...

The current study scrutinizes the intervening impact of customer's relationship management quality (CRM) to better understand the effect of customer's satisfaction and customer value occurring on the loyalty of customers. Moreover, we examine the brand image and competitive intensity as moderating variables on CRM quality and loyalty of customer. F...

Purpose The purpose of this paper, a cross-cultural study, is twofold: first, to identify personal, social, demographical and marketing facets that imply fast food addiction in Pakistan and America, and second to explore the reasons of reduction in fast food consumption in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach The present study followed an explana...

This study examines the contribution of financial development to environmental degradation in Saudi Arabia in the period from 1971 to 2016, controlling the model for globalization and electricity consumption. The autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) and vector error correction methods (VECM) are applied to the long-run and causal relationship, re...

The paper is aimed to portray the Behavioral Factors, which affect the investment decisions of individual investors at Pakistan Stock Exchange. Through this paper we enhance the existing literature on behavior finance as the study first time links behavioral factors with investment decisions through ethnographic observations and semi-structured int...

Natural as well as acid modified dead biomass of brown marine alga Sargassum sp. was employed for the elimination of cadmium and zinc ions from synthetic wastewater; batch mode experiments were carried out to optimize various factors like adsorbent dosage, contact time, pH, agitation speed and primary metal ions concentration at room temperature (2...

A rapid and simple process has been developed for the recovery of antimony metal from stibnite ore of Kharan area (Balochistan) of Pakistan. The ore was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique and found to contain 66% stibnite i.e. antimony sulfide (Sb2S3). The process parameters for the extraction of antimony were optimized on laborator...

Advertising researchers have been using test advertisements in a single exposure experiment. Review of literature, however, reveals that recall and persuasion ability of advertisements varies across different levels of advertising exposures. This study reviews the available literature on ad-exposures and theorizes that three exposures are most suit...

Advertising researchers have been using test advertisements in a single exposure experiment. Review of literature, however, reveals that recall and persuasion ability of advertisements varies across different levels of advertising exposures. This study reviews the available literature on ad-exposures and theorizes that three exposures are most suit...

The law on consent is continuously evolving as there is no statue in British law relating to consent. Instead this relies on common or case law. The recent case of Montgomery vs NHS Lanarkshire has change the consent law with relation to the disclosure of information. It is now recommended that we as surgeons should disclose risks that an average p...

Alginate–calcium carbonate composite material was prepared in the form of beads and characterized using Fourier transform infra red (FT-IR) spectroscopy and scanning electron microscope (SEM) techniques. The adsorption of Cd2+ ions was studied through batch experiments. The adsorption parameters such as contact time (120 min), adsorbent dose (1.5 g...

Fertility is the most important component among the components of population growth, as the fertility trends in any country determine factors related to social and economic condition of the region. Here, our main focus/research is on the indicator ASFR (age-specific fertility rates). Forecasting ASFR gives better picture for family planning schemes...

The purpose of this study is to model and forecast the trend and patterns of fertility rates in Pakistan. We use functional time series (FTS) models to obtain the forecast for the next twenty years. The secondary data of age-specific fertility rates from 1984 to 2005, obtained from Pakistan Demographic Surveys (PDS) are used. These data are availab...

Organizational cynicism and workplace deviant behavior are two major themes in organizational behavior literature. The purpose of this study is thus to investigate whether there is an association between organizational cynicism and workplace deviant behavior and if so, to determine the route of this relationship. Furthermore the influence of burnou...

The importance of creativity in advertising as one of the primary factor for advertising effectiveness has been much advocated by advertising professionals and academicians particularly in a cluttered media. Industry experts argue that advertisements have to be more creative to break through the greater media clutter and develop an impression for t...

In the last few decades, societies have started to demand that corporations should act more ethically. This demand is the result of series of corporate collapses of the current decade across the world particularly in Anglophone countries. These collapses did not only bring monetary losses for shareholders or investors but also resulted in job losse...

The main purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical foundation concerning the use of internal marketing (IM) as a vehicle for the implementation of quality management (QM). The ultimate goal in this context is to present IM as a technique for gaining the acceptance of the employees or departments that are critical to the successful implement...

We begin with a review of the upward influence literature. Within the past decade, organizational theory and research have made substantial contributions to our understanding of the upward influence process in organizations. Conspicuously missing from this research literature is information on the relationship between the use of upward influence ta...

A questionnaire was used to collect data from individuals who were involved in the implementation process of QM pro- grams in a large number of organizations. Useable data were received from 211 individuals in 65 organizations and the response rate was 52%. Several statistical techniques, including Multiple Discriminant Analysis, and ANOVA, were us...

The main purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical framework concerning the use of internal marketing (IM) as a vehicle for the successful implementation of quality management (QM). The ultimate goal in this context is to present IM as a technique for gaining the acceptance of the employees or departments that are critical to the successful...