Publications by authors named "Umer Iftikhar"
Greening of the hotel industry can be achieved through employees' green service recovery performance (GSRP) of employees to determine environment-friendly or unfriendly issues driven by environmental commitment and green human resource management (HRM) practices. This article attempts to resolve the research problem by analyzing the moderating effect of transformational leadership style on green HRM practices with employee environmental commitment (EEC) and GSRP in the hotel industry. The present study recruited 489 front-line employees (FLE) and their 24 direct managers.
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- The study examines how challenge stressors impact employees' identity orientation through thriving at work and their investment in their jobs.
- The researchers used a sample of 225 banking employees in Pakistan and advanced their hypotheses using a two-wave data collection method and structural equation modeling.
- Findings indicate that challenge stressors positively influence identity orientation, where thriving at work and employee investment act as mediators, highlighting that stress can enhance self-development and organizational commitment.
Waste management is an emerging focus in Pakistan. Specifically, waste-to-energy (WtE) projects are conceived to obtain benefits from municipal waste collection in metropolitan cities. This study provides a brief background of WtE potential, waste collection statistics, type of generated wastes, and current measures to build the confidence of investors in WtE projects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Backgound: Cytochrome P450, family 1, subfamily A, polypeptide 1 (CYP1A1) is an imperative enzyme due to its immersion in the biotransformation of a wide range of drugs and other xenobiotics. The involvement of enzymes in drug metabolism indicates an effective drug target for the development of novel therapeutics. The discovery of CYP1A1 specific inhibitors would be of particular relevance for the clinical pharmacology.
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