VU
Virtual University of Pakistan
Federal Government University
Dr. Ambreen Sarwar
Assistant Professor
Department of Management Sciences
Faculty of Management


PhD (Management Sciences)


Management/ Human Resource Management
Official Email ambreen.sarwar@vu.edu.pk
Dr. Ambreen Sarwar is serving as an Assistant Professor at Department of Management Sciences, Virtual University (VU) of Pakistan since March 2023. Earlier she has served the same institute as a Lecturer for two years. She has also worked for Islamia University of Bahawalpur as Associate Lecturer. She earned her doctorate (Ph.D.) from COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus in 2022 and MS degree in Human Resource Management from VU with Gold Medal. She also has MBA and BBA degrees. Her areas of research interest revolve around organizational behavior and human resource management especially workplace mistreatment, gender diversity, green HRM, and artificial intelligence. She has several publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals with a cumulative impact factor of more than 28.
Experience
Assistant Professor
Virtual University of Pakistan
From Mar 17, 2023 To present
Lecturer
Virtual University of Pakistan
From Apr 01, 2021 To Mar 16, 2023
Associate Lecturer
Islamia University of Bahawalpur
From Oct 22, 2020 To Mar 22, 2021
Honors And Awards
HEC Approved Ph.D. Supervisor Status
Year: 2023
Highest CGPA in Ph.D. course work
Year: 2016
Gold Medal in MS/MPhil
Year: 2014
95 Percentile Score in GAT (Graduate Assessment Test) Subject (Management Sciences).
Year: 2014
Publications
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~~~~2023. Does Workplace Ostracism Negatively Affect Family Life During a Pandemic? Personnel Review
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~~~~2023. I value ethics, do you? An employee-oriented perspective on ethical leadership and organizational change. Evidence-based HRM a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship
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~~~2022. Disruption in Family Life due to Despotic Leadership and COVID-19: The Mediating Role of Emotional Exhaustion. Kybernetes
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~~~2022. How Ostracism Jeopardizes Customers' Interests at Restaurants: A Study in Context of COVID-19. Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies
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Category: Academy of Management Proceedings
~2022. Keeping the Faith in Times of Fear: COVID-19 and Its Effect on Employee’s Job Engagement. Academy of Management Proceedings
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~~~2022. Role of Emotional Labor in Driving Sabotage Behaviors among Frontline Healthcare Workers. International Journal of Work Organization and Emotion
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~~~2022. When Fear about Health Hurts Performance: COVID-19 and Its Impact on Employee’s Work. Review of Managerial Science
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~~~2022. Does Social Media Usage Boost Career Prospects of Women: An Exploratory Study in the Academia. Kybernetes
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Category: Academy of Management Proceedings
2021. COVID-19 and Its Impact on Employee’s Work Performance. Academy of Management Proceedings
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2016. The Best Perspective in Reward Structure: Case Studies from Pakistan with Theosophical Analysis. Science International
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2019. Exploring Women’s Multi-Level Career Prospects in Pakistan: Barriers, Interventions and Outcomes. Frontiers in Psychology
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2019. Mitigating Effect of Perceived Organizational Support on Stress in the Presence of Workplace Ostracism in the Pakistani Nursing Sector. Psychology Research and Behavior Management
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Category: Y
2019. The Effect of Innovative Organizational Climate on Project Success: Mediating Role of Innovative Work Behavior. International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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Category: Y
2019. Collaborative Effect of Workplace Ostracism and Self-efficacy Versus Job Stress. Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation
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~2020. How does Workplace Ostracism lead to Service Sabotage Behavior in Nurses: A Conservation of Resources Perspective. Frontiers in Psychology
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~2020. How Innovative Climate leads to Project Success: The Moderating Role of Gender and Work Culture. Innovation and Management Review
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~~2021. Female Entrepreneurial Intentions in Pakistan: A Theory of Planned Behavior Perspective. Frontiers in Psychology
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~~2021. I Can, I'm doing, but I'm Unfit: An Exploratory Approach towards Entrepreneurial Regret, Gender in Management
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~~2021. Knowledge Management Capabilities and Organizational Outcomes: Contemporary Literature and Future Directions. Kybernetes
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~~2021. Will I Speak Up or Remain Silent? Workplace Ostracism and Employee Performance Based on Self-Control Perspective. The Journal of Social Psychology
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~~2021. Manifestations of Workplace Ostracism: An insight into Academics' Psychological Wellbeing. South Asian Journal of Business Studies
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