Dr Muhammad Yasir

Dr Muhammad Yasir

  • Lecturer
Department of Management
SDGs Focus

Biography

Muhammad Yasir is a Lecturer at the Department of Management, Sunway Business School. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Management from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor, Malaysia in 2017. His research interests include ethics, leadership, and sustainability. He has published several research papers in well-reputed journals and has supervised several research scholars in the field of management. Lastly, he has served on many conference committees in the field of management and has also been a session chair at international as well as national level conferences.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

PhD in Management, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia (2017)
MPhil in Leadership and Management Studies, National Defence University, Pakistan (2012)
BS in Business Administration Hons, COMSATS University, Pakistan (2010)

Research Interests

  • Ethics
  • Leadership
  • Pro-environmental behavior

Teaching Areas

  • Management

Courses Taught

  • Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Business Research Methods

Notable Publications

  1. Yasir, M., & Jan, A. (2023). Servant leadership in relation to organizational justice and workplace deviance in public hospitals. Leadership in Health Services, 36(2), 164-185.
     
  2. Yasir, M., Ullah, A., Siddique, M., Hamid, Z., and Khan, N. (2022). The Capabilities, Challenges, and Resilience of Digital Learning as a Tool for Education During the COVID-19. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, 16(13), pp. 160-174.
     
  3. Khan, N. U., Cheng, J., Yasir, M., Saufi, R. A., Nawi, N. C., and Bazkiaei, H. A. (2022). Antecedents of Employee Green Behavior in the Hospitality Industry. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.836109
     
  4. Yasir, M., & Khan, N. (2020). Mediating role of employees’ trust in the relationship between ethical leadership and workplace deviance in the public sector hospitals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Leadership, Education, Personality: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2(2), doi:10.1365/s42681-020-00010-5
     
  5. Yasir, M., and Rasli, A. (2018). Direct and Indirect Effects of Ethical Leadership on Workplace Deviance in Public Healthcare Sector of Pakistan. Journal of Advances in Management Research, 15(4), 558-574.
     
  6. Yasir, M., Imran, R., Irshad, M. K., Mohamad, N. A. & Khan, M. M. (2016). Leadership Styles in Relation to Employees’ Trust and Organizational Change Capacity. SAGE Open, 6(4), 1-12.
     
  7. Yasir, M. & Mohamad, N. A. (2016). Ethics and Morality: Comparing Ethical Leadership with Servant, Authentic and Transformational Leadership Styles. International Review of Management and Marketing, 6(4S), 310-316.
     
  8. Yasir, M., Imran, R. & Irshad, M. K. (2013). Mediating Role of Organizational Climate in the Relationship between Transformational Leadership, its Facets and Organizational Performance. Actual Problems of Economics, 145(7), 559-569.

Achievements & Accolades

Best Postgraduate Student Award in the 59th UTM Convocation (2017), Faculty of Management, UTM, Malaysia.