Dr. Qaisar Iqbal

Department of Management

Al Yamamah University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Assistant Professor

Email: [email protected]

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

2020, Ph.D. in Human Resource Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

2015, M.Sc. in Project Management, SZABIST, Pakistan

2008, MBA in Business Administration, NUML, Pakistan

Research Interests

Green HRM & Corporate Sustainability

Sustainable Leadership

Organizational Behavior & Employee Performance

Publications (Selected)

1. Piwowar-Sulej, K., Iqbal, Q., & Kallmuenzer, A. (2026). Addressing AI-related fears: the impact of technological social responsibility on employees’ attitudes towards AI integration at work. Review of Managerial Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-026-01037-6
2. Iqbal, Q., Piwowar‐Sulej, K., & Andersén, J. (2026). From Eco‐Policy to Green Practice: Government Eco‐Initiatives, Managerial Attention and Frugal Green Innovation in Saudi Arabia. Business Strategy and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.70821
3. Piwowar-Sulej, K., & Iqbal, Q. (2026). Socially responsible HRM, psychological safety and host country employee helping behaviors towards war refugees. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1-32.
4. Iqbal, Q., & Piwowar-Sulej, K. (2026). Tacit and Explicit Knowledge Sharing across Borders: The Role of Psychological Empowerment, Employee Cultural Orientation, and Uncertainty Avoidance. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 1-22.
5. Piwowar-Sulej, K., & Iqbal, Q. (2026). Fostering eco-innovative behaviour among Malaysian SMEs: The role of leaders’ green awareness and knowledge sharing practices. Argumenta Oeconomica, 56(1).
6. Iqbal, Q., Volpone, S., & Piwowar-Sulej, K., (2025). Workforce Neurodiversity and Workplace Avoidance Behavior: The Role of Inclusive Leadership, Relational Energy and Self-Control Demands. Human Resource Management, https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.22249.
7. Iqbal, Q. and Piwowar-Sulej, K., 2025. Transformational leadership, wasta and workforce localisation in Saudi Arabia: a sequential mediation model. International Journal of Manpower, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-04-2024-0274
8. Iqbal, Q. and Piwowar-Sulej, K. (2025), "Gender and spiritual leadership: examining sustainable performance", Management Decision, https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-02-2024-0342
9. Iqbal, Q., Piwowar-Sulej, K., Agarwal, R., & Yaqub, M. Z. (2025). Sustainability-Oriented Leadership and Business Strategy: Examining the Roles of Procedural Environmental Justice and Job Embeddedness. Business Strategy and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4133
10. Iqbal, Q., Piwowar-Sulej, K., & Cherchem, N., (2025). Organizational Commitment, Procedural Justice Climate, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards Sustainability: A Multilevel Study. Journal of Global Responsibility, https://doi.org/10.1108/JGR-08-2023-0130.
11. Piwowar-Sulej, K., & Iqbal, Q. (2025). A novel approach to green innovative work behavior: Green HRM and employee participation. Baltic Journal of Management, BJM-09-2024-0593.R4. (Accepted)
12. Piwowar-Sulej, K., & Iqbal, Q. (2025). Sustainable Human Resource Training: A study of Scale Development and Validation. German Journal of Human Resource Management, 1 0.1177/23970022241310836.
13. Piwowar-Sulej, K., & Iqbal, Q. (2025). Sustainability-Focused Leadership and Pro-Environmental Behavior in SMEs: Through the Lens of Conservation of Resources Theory. Central European Management Journal, CEMJ-11-2024-0375.
14. Iqbal, Q., & Piwowar-Sulej, K. (2024). Technological social responsibility: A stakeholder theory-based measurement scale. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 205, 123465.
15. Iqbal, Q., Piwowar-Sulej, K., & Kallmuenzer, A. (2024). Sustainable development through frugal innovation: the role of leadership, entrepreneurial bricolage and knowledge diversity. Review of Managerial Science, 1-22.
16. Piwowar-Sulej, K., & Iqbal, Q. (2024). 5S Implementation, Basic Needs Satisfaction, Sustainable Leadership and Firm Sustainable Performance: Empirical Evidence from the Oil and Gas Industry. Journal of Cleaner Production, 144354.
17. Fang, T. M., Ahmad, N. H., Halim, H. A., Iqbal, Q., & Ramayah, T. (2024). Pathway towards SME competitiveness: Digital capability and digital business model innovation. Technology in Society, 102728.
18. Cui, T., Tang, S., & Iqbal, Q. (2024). The role of green influencers on users' green consumption intention: an empirical study from China and Pakistan. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, https://doi.org/10.1108/APJML-05-2024-0561.
19. Piwowar-Sulej, K. and Iqbal, Q. (2024), "Workplace envy as an inhibitor of change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: the role of sustainable leadership", Journal of Organizational Change Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-02-2024-0086
20. Iqbal, Q., Piwowar-Sulej, K., & Albashrawi, MA. (2024). Servant leadership and cross-border knowledge sharing: A moderated moderation of hierarchical similarity and individual cultural orientation. European Journal of International Management,.
21. Piwowar-Sulej, K., & Iqbal, Q. (2024). Sustainability and software development projects: leadership, core self-evaluation and empowerment as critical success factors. European Business Review. https://doi.org/10.1108/EBR-12-2023-0387

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