Usman Ghani
Biographic Data
| ID | 6197490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Usman Ghani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Usman |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghani |
| SIGNATURE | GHANI U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iqra University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-3950-5132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Boon or bane: Does the leaders’ unethical pro-organizational behavior lead to employees’ unethical pro-family behavior
From frustration to workplace conflict: Examining supervisor job demands, downward bullying and the role of personality and power dynamics
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the supervisor-level antecedents of downward bullying (destructive dyadic conflict) in workplace settings. Grounded in affective events theory, the authors propose that supervisor job demands trigger workplace frustration, a strong negative emotional response that may drive supervisors to engage in downward bullying. Furthermore, they hypothesize that a supervisor's personality trait – neuroticism –…
Integrating AI-Driven Wearable Metaverse Technologies into Ubiquitous Blended Learning: A Framework Based on Embodied Interaction and Multi-Agent Collaboration
Ubiquitous blended learning, leveraging mobile devices, has democratized education by enabling autonomous and readily accessible knowledge acquisition. However, its reliance on traditional interfaces often limits learner immersion and meaningful interaction. The emergence of the wearable metaverse offers a compelling solution, promising enhanced multisensory experiences and adaptable learning environments that transcend the constraints of convent…
Enhancing flood resilience: Comparative analysis of single and hybrid defense systems for vulnerable buildings
How and when authoritarian leadership reduces positive work behaviors: A study from the perspective of Islamic work ethics
Weathering storms together: Navigating supervisor support and job-based psychological ownership to foster helping behaviors among nurses
How exploitative leadership influences employees’ negligence behavior
Purpose This study aims to examine the connection between exploitative leadership (EL) and employee negligence behavior, focusing on the mediating role of job frustration and the moderating role of conscientiousness. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 225 nurses from various public hospitals in Pakistan was selected, using a quantitative research methodology. Data were then analyzed with SPSS and AMOS. Findings The results show that EL is as…
The impact of interpersonal risk communication on people’s cognitive risk perception and negative emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic: A mediation and moderation model
Raving Fans or Silent Critics? Brand Service Recovery’s Impact on Positive eWOM
Brand Service Recovery Strategies (BSRS) have garnered significant attention due to their transformative potential in traditional business practices. However, the precise influence of BSRS on fostering positive Electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM) remains inadequately elucidated within the academic literature. Most scholarly investigations have tended to adopt either a theoretical perspective or have overlooked intermediary factors, particularly the r…
Does Professional Self-Efficacy Provide a Shield in Troubling Situations? Evidence of Performance and Thriving Through Perceived Strength Use
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a more stressful and uncertain work environments, disrupting personal and organizational lives, and particularly the impact of this crises on health care professionals (i.e., doctors and nurses) is unprecedented. COVID-19 has increased the workload and job risks for frontline health care professionals, causing them significant emotional stress. In such testing times, individual’s personal effectiveness ensued by …
Role Of Local Government In Improving Public Service- Delivery In Punjab: A Comparative Study Of District Lahore And Kasur
Local government is a key feature for the good governance and public service delivery at local level in Pakistan. It provides a means for delivering public services, political representation and budget allocation to local citizens at a grassroot level. Ayub Khan introduced local government by Zulfikar Bhutto, Zia and Musharraf. Musharraf devolution plan was more comprehensive. However, all these initiatives for local governments were regulated by…
Navigating the green path: Unraveling the follower green awareness impact on leader green organizational commitment through moderation and mediation model
The purpose of the study is to explore how the green awareness of followers influences the green organizational commitment of leaders. This investigation took into account the moderating role of followers perceived organizational support and the mediating effect of leaders' green intrinsic motivation. The quantitative data collected from pharmaceutical companies was analyzed through SEM-PLS and Johnson-Neyman's moderated mediation plot. The findi…
The Depiction of Al-Bukhārī’s travels in classical Islamic literature
Travel (riḥla) after the death of the Prophet Muḥammad, and the geographically disparate locations of his companions made travelling for the acquisition of knowledge, and for the attainment of reliable ḥadīṯh an absolute necessity and it was regarded as a key component in the acquisition of this sacred knowledge. The present paper thus, investigates al-Bukhārī as a major figure in ḥadīṯh compilation. Furthermore, it discusses more specifically ho…
Relationship of abusive supervision and employees’ helping behaviors: Moderated-mediation perspective
Purpose This study, based on the conservation of resource theory, aims to investigate the negative impacts of abusive supervision on helping behaviors among employees by examining the mediating role of rumination and the moderating role of psychological flexibility. Design/methodology/approach A total sample of 282 reliable questionnaires are collected from 282 employees working in education and banking sectors of Pakistan. SPSS and AMOS are used…
Social Undermining at the Workplace: How Religious Faith Encourages Employees Who are Aware of Their Social Undermining Behaviors to Express More Guilt and Perform Better
The Nexus Between IT Capabilities and Firm Innovation Performance: The Mediating Effect of Supply Chain Agility
This study investigates the impact of IT capabilities on firm innovation performance. Further, it examines the mediating role of supply chain agility (SCA) as well as the moderating effect of innovation orientation (IO). The proposed conceptual model draws on resource-based view (RBV) theory. Dataset of 335 responses was analysed with process MACRO using SPSS 24.0 and AMOS. The findings show that IT capabilities positively affect firm innovation …
A Review of Covid-19 Pandemic and Pakistan Public Social Sector Services Combating Capacity
This paper was designed to evaluate the public social sector services of Pakistan combating capacity with the COVID-19 pandemic. In disasters and pandemics, the role of the stable and well-functional public social sector is of high importance and consequently, such systems could effectively decrease the aggravation of pandemics and disasters. Research findings observed that COVID-19 is a lethal unprecedented pandemic, that has challenged the soci…
Incorporating Survey Perceptions of Public Safety and Security Variables in Crime Rate Analyses for the Visegrád Group (V4) Countries of Central Europe
Public governance has evolved in terms of safety and security management, incorporating digital innovation and smart-analytics-based tools to visualize abundant data collections. Urban safety and security are vital social problems that have many branches to be solved, simplified, and improved. Currently, we can see that data-driven insights have often been incorporated into planning, forecasting, and fighting such challenges. The literature has e…
Social support and perceived uncertainties during Covid-19: Consequences for employees’ wellbeing
Impact of Online Crisis Response Strategies on Online Purchase Intention: The Roles of Online Brand Attitude and Brand Perceived Usefulness
The present study has concentrated on online crisis response strategies that stimulate online purchase and the acceptance of online purchase intention (OPI) in the marketplace. However, few studies have examined the online crisis response strategies undertaken to alleviate the online crisis. Therefore, on the basis of the Stimulus Organism Response framework and online crisis response strategies, this study offered and tested a model that inspect…
The Use of Social Networking Sites and Pro-Environmental Behaviors: A Mediation and Moderation Model
Climate change poses a huge threat. Social networking sites (SNSs) have become sources of human-environment interactions and shaped the societal perception of climate change and its effect on society. This study, based on the extended parallel process model, aims to examine the effect of exposure to climate change-related information on SNSs on the pro-environmental behaviors of individuals. The study examines the mediation effect of fear of vict…
Exposure to terrorism-related information on SNSs and life dissatisfaction: The mediating role of depression and moderation effect of social support
Media and altruistic behaviors: The mediating role of fear of victimization in cultivation theory perspective
Tit for Tat: Abusive Supervision and Knowledge Hiding-The Role of Psychological Contract Breach and Psychological Ownership
The extant literature has focused on individuals' knowledge-sharing behavior and its driving factors, which stimulate the knowledge transmission and exchange in organizations. However, little research has focused on factors that inhibit knowledge sharing and encourage individuals to hide their knowledge. Therefore, based on social exchange and displaced aggression theories, the study proposed and checked a model that examined the effect of abusiv…
Ambidextrous leadership and innovative work behaviors: Workplace thriving as a mediator
Adopting the conservation of resource theory (COR) and socially embedded model of thriving, this study examined the relationships among ambidextrous leadership, workplace thriving, and innovative work behaviors. Specifically, we investigated both the direct role of ambidextrous leadership in predicting innovative work behaviors as well as the indirect role of ambidextrous leadership through the mediating process of workplace thriving. Our results…
If you care, I care: Perceived social support and public engagement via SNSs during crises
Navigating the green path: Unraveling the follower green awareness impact on leader green organizational commitment through moderation and mediation model
The purpose of the study is to explore how the green awareness of followers influences the green organizational commitment of leaders. This investigation took into account the moderating role of followers perceived organizational support and the mediating effect of leaders' green intrinsic motivation. The quantitative data collected from pharmaceutical companies was analyzed through SEM-PLS and Johnson-Neyman's moderated mediation plot. The findi…
Ambidextrous leadership and innovative work behaviors: Workplace thriving as a mediator
Adopting the conservation of resource theory (COR) and socially embedded model of thriving, this study examined the relationships among ambidextrous leadership, workplace thriving, and innovative work behaviors. Specifically, we investigated both the direct role of ambidextrous leadership in predicting innovative work behaviors as well as the indirect role of ambidextrous leadership through the mediating process of workplace thriving. Our results…
Perceived public condemnation and avoidance intentions: The mediating role of moral outrage
The effects of intrapersonal emotion on consumers' behavior have long been studied, but the effects of interpersonal emotions on public's intentions remain poorly understood. People often get angry when they observe injustice with others but not themselves. Drawing on emotions as social information theory, we investigated how perceived public condemnation (knowledge that other also condemn a particular norm violation by an organization) affects t…
Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality and Modernity
Samira Haj, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008, 304 pp. Samira Haj argues in this book that the ideas of two reformers, Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab and Muhammad Abduh, should be taken into per
Perceived public condemnation and avoidance intentions: The mediating role of moral outrage
The effects of intrapersonal emotion on consumers' behavior have long been studied, but the effects of interpersonal emotions on public's intentions remain poorly understood. People often get angry when they observe injustice with others but not themselves. Drawing on emotions as social information theory, we investigated how perceived public condemnation (knowledge that other also condemn a particular norm violation by an organization) affects t…
If you care, I care: Perceived social support and public engagement via SNSs during crises
Media and altruistic behaviors: The mediating role of fear of victimization in cultivation theory perspective
Tit for Tat: Abusive Supervision and Knowledge Hiding-The Role of Psychological Contract Breach and Psychological Ownership
The extant literature has focused on individuals' knowledge-sharing behavior and its driving factors, which stimulate the knowledge transmission and exchange in organizations. However, little research has focused on factors that inhibit knowledge sharing and encourage individuals to hide their knowledge. Therefore, based on social exchange and displaced aggression theories, the study proposed and checked a model that examined the effect of abusiv…
Ambidextrous leadership and innovative work behaviors: Workplace thriving as a mediator
Adopting the conservation of resource theory (COR) and socially embedded model of thriving, this study examined the relationships among ambidextrous leadership, workplace thriving, and innovative work behaviors. Specifically, we investigated both the direct role of ambidextrous leadership in predicting innovative work behaviors as well as the indirect role of ambidextrous leadership through the mediating process of workplace thriving. Our results…
Social support and perceived uncertainties during Covid-19: Consequences for employees’ wellbeing
Impact of Online Crisis Response Strategies on Online Purchase Intention: The Roles of Online Brand Attitude and Brand Perceived Usefulness
The present study has concentrated on online crisis response strategies that stimulate online purchase and the acceptance of online purchase intention (OPI) in the marketplace. However, few studies have examined the online crisis response strategies undertaken to alleviate the online crisis. Therefore, on the basis of the Stimulus Organism Response framework and online crisis response strategies, this study offered and tested a model that inspect…
The Use of Social Networking Sites and Pro-Environmental Behaviors: A Mediation and Moderation Model
Climate change poses a huge threat. Social networking sites (SNSs) have become sources of human-environment interactions and shaped the societal perception of climate change and its effect on society. This study, based on the extended parallel process model, aims to examine the effect of exposure to climate change-related information on SNSs on the pro-environmental behaviors of individuals. The study examines the mediation effect of fear of vict…
Exposure to terrorism-related information on SNSs and life dissatisfaction: The mediating role of depression and moderation effect of social support
A Review of Covid-19 Pandemic and Pakistan Public Social Sector Services Combating Capacity
This paper was designed to evaluate the public social sector services of Pakistan combating capacity with the COVID-19 pandemic. In disasters and pandemics, the role of the stable and well-functional public social sector is of high importance and consequently, such systems could effectively decrease the aggravation of pandemics and disasters. Research findings observed that COVID-19 is a lethal unprecedented pandemic, that has challenged the soci…
Incorporating Survey Perceptions of Public Safety and Security Variables in Crime Rate Analyses for the Visegrád Group (V4) Countries of Central Europe
Public governance has evolved in terms of safety and security management, incorporating digital innovation and smart-analytics-based tools to visualize abundant data collections. Urban safety and security are vital social problems that have many branches to be solved, simplified, and improved. Currently, we can see that data-driven insights have often been incorporated into planning, forecasting, and fighting such challenges. The literature has e…
The Depiction of Al-Bukhārī’s travels in classical Islamic literature
Travel (riḥla) after the death of the Prophet Muḥammad, and the geographically disparate locations of his companions made travelling for the acquisition of knowledge, and for the attainment of reliable ḥadīṯh an absolute necessity and it was regarded as a key component in the acquisition of this sacred knowledge. The present paper thus, investigates al-Bukhārī as a major figure in ḥadīṯh compilation. Furthermore, it discusses more specifically ho…
Relationship of abusive supervision and employees’ helping behaviors: Moderated-mediation perspective
Purpose This study, based on the conservation of resource theory, aims to investigate the negative impacts of abusive supervision on helping behaviors among employees by examining the mediating role of rumination and the moderating role of psychological flexibility. Design/methodology/approach A total sample of 282 reliable questionnaires are collected from 282 employees working in education and banking sectors of Pakistan. SPSS and AMOS are used…
Social Undermining at the Workplace: How Religious Faith Encourages Employees Who are Aware of Their Social Undermining Behaviors to Express More Guilt and Perform Better
The Nexus Between IT Capabilities and Firm Innovation Performance: The Mediating Effect of Supply Chain Agility
This study investigates the impact of IT capabilities on firm innovation performance. Further, it examines the mediating role of supply chain agility (SCA) as well as the moderating effect of innovation orientation (IO). The proposed conceptual model draws on resource-based view (RBV) theory. Dataset of 335 responses was analysed with process MACRO using SPSS 24.0 and AMOS. The findings show that IT capabilities positively affect firm innovation …
The impact of interpersonal risk communication on people’s cognitive risk perception and negative emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic: A mediation and moderation model
Raving Fans or Silent Critics? Brand Service Recovery’s Impact on Positive eWOM
Brand Service Recovery Strategies (BSRS) have garnered significant attention due to their transformative potential in traditional business practices. However, the precise influence of BSRS on fostering positive Electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM) remains inadequately elucidated within the academic literature. Most scholarly investigations have tended to adopt either a theoretical perspective or have overlooked intermediary factors, particularly the r…
Does Professional Self-Efficacy Provide a Shield in Troubling Situations? Evidence of Performance and Thriving Through Perceived Strength Use
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a more stressful and uncertain work environments, disrupting personal and organizational lives, and particularly the impact of this crises on health care professionals (i.e., doctors and nurses) is unprecedented. COVID-19 has increased the workload and job risks for frontline health care professionals, causing them significant emotional stress. In such testing times, individual’s personal effectiveness ensued by …
Role Of Local Government In Improving Public Service- Delivery In Punjab: A Comparative Study Of District Lahore And Kasur
Local government is a key feature for the good governance and public service delivery at local level in Pakistan. It provides a means for delivering public services, political representation and budget allocation to local citizens at a grassroot level. Ayub Khan introduced local government by Zulfikar Bhutto, Zia and Musharraf. Musharraf devolution plan was more comprehensive. However, all these initiatives for local governments were regulated by…
Navigating the green path: Unraveling the follower green awareness impact on leader green organizational commitment through moderation and mediation model
The purpose of the study is to explore how the green awareness of followers influences the green organizational commitment of leaders. This investigation took into account the moderating role of followers perceived organizational support and the mediating effect of leaders' green intrinsic motivation. The quantitative data collected from pharmaceutical companies was analyzed through SEM-PLS and Johnson-Neyman's moderated mediation plot. The findi…
Integrating AI-Driven Wearable Metaverse Technologies into Ubiquitous Blended Learning: A Framework Based on Embodied Interaction and Multi-Agent Collaboration
Ubiquitous blended learning, leveraging mobile devices, has democratized education by enabling autonomous and readily accessible knowledge acquisition. However, its reliance on traditional interfaces often limits learner immersion and meaningful interaction. The emergence of the wearable metaverse offers a compelling solution, promising enhanced multisensory experiences and adaptable learning environments that transcend the constraints of convent…
Enhancing flood resilience: Comparative analysis of single and hybrid defense systems for vulnerable buildings
How and when authoritarian leadership reduces positive work behaviors: A study from the perspective of Islamic work ethics
Weathering storms together: Navigating supervisor support and job-based psychological ownership to foster helping behaviors among nurses
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Mediation (6 works) · Moderation (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Perception (5 works)