Department of Management Sciences

Dr. Fouzia Ashfaq

Dr. Fouzia Ashfaq
Dr. Fouzia Ashfaq

Assistant Professor/Incharge

Department of Management Sciences 

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Career Objectives
To excel in the field of education by enhancing my research capabilities.
Qualification
Degree
Name of Institution
Year
PhD
PhD – Business Administration
National College of Business and Economics, Lahore
2022
Work Experience
20 years
Name of Employer
Dr Fouzia Ashfaq
Position held
  • October 2011 till Date
    Assistant Professor
  • December 2022- July 2023
    Incharge, Department of Management Sciences
  • January 2015- May 2016
    Incharge, Department of Management Sciences & Department of Public Administration
  • October 2004- October 2011
    Lecturer, Department of Management Sciences
Main activities &  responsibilities
  • Managing Editor-Journal of Management and Administrative Sciences
    (HEC approved Y category Journal)
  • Program Coordinator BBA
  • Teaching PhD, MS, MBA and BS-level classes
  • Research Thesis Supervision of PhD/ MS/ MBA students
Honors & Awards
Received Scholarship from Australian Government through AusAID for MS level studies.
Trainings, Seminars & Workshops
  • 2-day Advanced Level Course for PhD Supervision conducted at LCWU from 13th June 2024 to 14th June 2024.
  • 3-day workshop on Leveraging AI in Academia, Fostering Innovation and Building a Sustainable AI Ecosystem conducted by Dr Akira Murata through Faculty Development Centre, LCWU from 14th May 2024 to 16th May 2024.
  • 4-month course on Professional Development Skills conducted by Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong, Australia (March 2010 to June 2010).
  • 100 credit hour course on Academic Writing Skills conducted by Wollongong College Australia (4th January 2010 to 5th February 2010).
  • 3-days training on Syllabus Writing conducted by the Directorate of Faculty Development and Internationalization, LCWU from 24th November 2020 to 26th November 2020.
  • Effectively delivered 32-hour sessions for the course Citizenship Education & Community Engagement Programme -Active Citizens under the British Council of Pakistan in 2015/16.
  • 3-week workshop on Indigenous on-campus training under the Higher Education Commission’s Modern University Governance Program. LCWU (Jan -Feb 2015).
  • 10 days extensive workshop on Qualitative Research Methods (28th May 2012- 18th June 2012) conducted by Dr. Shabana Mir, Oklahoma State University.
  • One-week training course on Project Planning conducted by Management and Professional Development Department, Government of the Punjab (23rd January 2012 to 27th January 2012).
  • Extensive Research training on Conducting Quantitative Research For High Impact Factor Publications with introduction to SPSS conducted by Institute of Business & Management, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore (17th February 2013)
  • Workshop on Train the Trainer by Chartered Institute of Management Accountants on 13th December 2014.
  • Session conducted on Economic Conditions of Pakistan by the Directorate of Faculty Development and Internationalization, LCWU on 27th February 2020
  • Workshop on Mixed Methods Research Methodology using SPSS & NVIVO. NCBA&E (2018)
  • Workshop on APA Manuscript Preparation and Submission. NCBA&E May 08, 2018.
  • Received International Computer Driving License after successfully passing all modules conducted by ICDL Asia Pacific and European Computer Driving License Foundation on 23 November 2007.
  • Institute of Banker’s workshop on International Standard of Examining the Documents under Documentary Credit (July 2004).
  • Institute of Banker’s workshop on Cash Flow Based Lending (January 2004).
  • Institute of Banker’s workshop on SMEs Policies & Procedures (2002).
  • Institute of Banker’s workshop on SBP Prudential Regulations & Supervision (March 2002
  • Union Bank’s training on Customer Service Excellence (April 2002).
  • Institute of Banker’s workshop on Understanding Financial Statement (Mar 2001).
  • Union Bank’s training on Total Quality Management (October 1999).
Book Contribution
CHAPTERS IN BOOK
  • Fouzia Ashfaq, Ghulam Abid, & Sehrish Ilyas (2022). Work engagement: creating value through sustainable leadership and resilience. In Business in the 21st Century (pp. 121-132). Emerald Publishing Limited.
  • Sehrish Ilyas, Ghulam Abid, & Fouzia Ashfaq (2022). Bringing Societal Impact by Eliciting DSIW Among Employees to Cater COVID-19 Outbreak. In Business in the 21st Century (pp. 93-102). Emerald Publishing Limited
Thesis Supervision / Examination
  • Anticipating Organizational Futures: The Role of Digital Readiness, Technical Expertise, and Market Pressures in Decision-Making Effectiveness
  • Empathetic Influence: Charting a Course for Employee Wellbeing through Leadership in the Service Sector
  • Workplace Flexibility and its Impact on Organizational Commitment.
  • The Effect of Perceived Organizational Support on Employee’s Intention to leave Vs Employee’s Intention to stay.
  • Impact of Transformational Leadership Behaviours on Organizational Change.
  • Impact of Organizational Culture (Clan, Adhocracy, Market and Hierarchy) on Job Satisfaction.
  • Impact of Organizational Learning and Innovation on Performance.
  • Effect of Flexible Employment Practices on Work Life Balance.
  • Impact of Spiritual Leadership on Employee Commitment to Organizational Change: The moderating role of psychological empowerment
  • An Employee’s Perspective: Psychological Capital Impact on Knowledge Sharing Behaviour: Considering Role of Innovative Team Climate.
  • The Impact of Visual Packaging Design on Perceived Food Product Quality and Brand Preference Moderating Effect of Gender.
  • The Impact of Workplace Ostracism on Cyber-loafing: Mediating role of work stress.
Research & Teaching Interest
Interested in analyzing the underlying mechanisms that foster employee contribution towards organizational effectiveness.

Publications

S.
No
Authors
Year
Title
Journal Name
Volume, Issue
HEC
Category / Impact Factor(IF)
1
Fouzia Ashfaq, Ghulam Abid, Sehrish Ilyas, Ahmed Faseeh
2024
Fueling Work Engagement through Sustainable Leadership: Examining Sequential Mediation of Perceived Organizational Support and Mental Health
Human Systems Management
Vol 45
Ahead of prints
 
X IF 1.5
2
Fouzia Ashfaq, Ghulam Abid, & Sehrish Ilyas 2023
Transformational leadership and life satisfaction: The sequential mediation model of organizational trust and
proactive behavior.
Scandinavian Journal of Management, 39(4) 101298
1-12
W IF 2.9
3
Fouzia Ashfaq, Ghulam Abid, Sehrish Ilyas, Khola Binte Mansoor
2023
Perceived organisational support and work engagement among health sector workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multicentre, time-lagged, cross-sectional study among clinical hospital
staff in Pakistan.
BMJ
open, 13(6), e065678.
1-10
 
W IF 2.7
4
Muhammad Yasir Imran, Natasha Saman Elahi, Ghulam Abid, Fouzia Ashfaq, Sehrish Ilyas
2020
Impact of perceived organizational support on work engagement: Mediating mechanism of thriving and flourishing.
Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 6(3), 82.
1-18
W
 
 
5
Sehrish Ilyas, Ghulam Abid, Fouzia Ashfaq, Muhammad Ali, & Wasif Ali .
2021
Status quos are made to be broken: The roles of Transformational Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Psychological Empowerment, and Voice
Behavior.
SAGE Open, 11(2), 1-14
 
 
W IF 2.3
 
 
6
Sehrish Ilyas, Ghulam Abid, & Fouzia Ashfaq 2023
Enhancing the perceived organizational support, perceived ethical- philanthropic CSR and subjective well-being: The
role of ethical leadership.
International Journal of Ethics and Systems, 39(4),
713-736.
 
 
W IF 1.9
 
7
Maryam Rehmat, Ghulam Abid, Fouzia Ashfaq, Bindu Aryad, Saira Farooqie 2020
Workplace      respect                       and organizational identification: A Sequential mediation.
International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change. 14
(12), 446-471
 
 
W
8
Fouzia Ashfaq, Ghulam Abid, Sehrish Ilyas, Ali Raza Elahi
2025
Sustainable Leadership and Work Engagement: Exploring Sequential Mediation of Organizational Support and Gratitude
Public Organisation Review
Vol 25
 
 
X IF 1.60
9
Fouzia Ashfaq, Mattiullah Butt & Sehrish Ilyas 2020
Volunteering: what drives and retains it? An analysis of motivational needs together with organizational policies and practices.
Qualitative Research Journal, 21(2),
189-205.
 
X IF 2.70
10
Sehrish Ilyas, Mattiullah Butt, Fouzia Ashfaq, Daniela Acquadro Maran
2020
Drivers for Non-Profits’ Success: Volunteer Engagement and Financial Sustainability Practices through the Resource
Dependence Theory.
Economies, 8(4), 101
1-17.
 
X IF 2.20
11
Sehrish Ilyas, Ghulam Abid, & Fouzia Ashfaq 2020
Ethical leadership in sustainable organizations: The moderating role of general self-efficacy and the mediating role of organizational trust.
Sustainable Production and Consumption, 22, 195-204
 
 
X IF 10.9
12
Sehrish                    Ilyas, Ghulam Abid, & Fouzia Ashfaq 2022
The impact of perceived organizational support on professional commitment: a moderation of burnout and mediation of well-being.
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 43(7/8), 710-
726.
X IF 1.9
13
Annum Tariq Maan, Ghulam Abid, Tahira Hassan Butt, Fouzia Ashfaq, Saira Ahmed
2020
Perceived organizational support and job satisfaction: a moderated mediation model of proactive personality and psychological
empowerment.
Future Business Journal, 6
(1):21,
1-12.
 
Y IF 3.4
14
Dur-e- Shahwar, Fouzia Ashfaq, Maliha Khan 2024
The Impact of Visual Packaging Design on Perceived Food Product Quality and Brand Preference with Moderating Effect of Gender
Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE), 13(1).
714-719
 
Y
15
Fouzia Ashfaq, Ghulam Abid, Sehrish Ilyas, Anwer Hasnain 2021
How transformational leadership influences innovative behavior: the mediating role of psychological empowerment and proactivity of employees
Independent Journal of Management & Production
 
IF 0.4
16
Zulfiqar Ahmed Iqbal, Ghulam Abid, Muhammad Arshad, Fouzia Ashfaq, Muhammad Ahsan Athar, Qandeel Hassan
2021
Impact of authoritative and laissez-faire leadership on thriving at work: The moderating role of conscientiousness.
European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education, 11(3), 667-685.
 
Y IF 3.0
17
Syeda Fatima Azeemi, Fouzia Ashfaq, Khurram Shahnawaz Rana 2024
Empathetic Influence: Charting a Course for Employee Well-being Through Leadership in the Service Sector.
Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE), 13(1).
690-695
 
 
Y
18
Fouzia Ashfaq & Ghulam Abid 2022
Mental health, hope and work engagement: An empirical study in the
health sector.
Global Social Sciences Review, 7(1),
253-263.
 
Y
19
Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Jawad Kashif, Fouzia Ashfaq, Ghulam Abid 2023
Volunteers are not Volunteering to Sacrifice their Objectives.
Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE), 12(4),
23-32.
 
 
Y
20
Sehrish Ilyas, Alia Ahmed, & Fouzia Ashfaq 2021
Protecting the Copyrights and Trademark Infringements: An Integrated Model of Anti-
Counterfeiting Strategies.
GMJACS, 11(2)
41-61.
Y
21
Fouzia Ashfaq, Ghulam Abid, & Sehrish Ilyas 2021
Impact of ethical leadership on employee engagement: role of self-efficacy and organizational commitment.
European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 11(3), 962-974
 
Y
IF 3.0
22
Fouzia Ashfaq, Alia Ahmed, & Sehrish Ilyas 2021
Workplace Harassment & Organizational Liability: Application of Situational Crime Prevention Techniques as Deterrence.
GMJACS, 11(1)
1-22
Y
 
23
Sehrish                    Ilyas, Fouzia Ashfaq , Anum Attique 2024
Revisiting the National Ranking Methodology of Higher Education Institution in Pakistan: A Societal and Entrepreneurial Perspective
Research Journal for Societal Issues Vol 6 No 2,
177-189
Y
24
Fouzia Ashfaq, Sehrish Ilyas, & Anum Shahid 2018
From Frugal to Reverse Innovation: Is the Great Leap Possible? An Analysis of Diffusion Patterns of Frugal Innovations.
Global Management Journal for Academic & Corporate Studies, 8(1),
22-32.
 
Y
25
Ali Raza Elahi, Anum Iqbal,
Bilal Ahmad Minhas, Fouzia Ashfaq
2023
The Behavior Risk Biases and Sustainable Investment Decision. .
Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE), 12(3),
74-88
Y
26
Sehrish Ilyas, , Ghulam Abid, Fouzia Ashfaq, Ahmed Faseeh
2025
From Support to Desire: Unraveling the Role of Burnout in Moderated Mediation between Perceived Organizational Support, Perceived Ethical Responsibility, and Desire to Have a Significant Impact through Work. 
Public Organiz Rev (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-025-00874-5
 
 
X IF 1.60