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Dr. Khizar Hayat Khan Tahir

Associate Professor

Ph.D. (Human Resource Management) University of Karachi

MBA/MS  (Human Resource Management & Finance) (PIDE), Quaid e Azam University Islamabad.

About

Dr. Khizar Baloch has been associated with Iqra University since January 2018, has demonstrated a multifaceted engagement encompassing teaching, research, and administrative support. Proficient in planning and developing appropriate programs and skilled in integrating relevant technology to support classroom to optimize learning process.

He has over 25 years unique Industry experience include, diverse teaching, capacity building, training, managing human capital, administration, and financial/security auditing. His academic excellence, coupled with extensive industry knowledge, enhances his ability to devise innovative solutions for contemporary challenges.

His doctoral research, titled “Compensation as a Strategic Tool for Employee Performance & Retention: A Comparative Study of Public & Private Sector Universities in Karachi, Pakistan,” underscores his scholarly contributions, evident in his publications across national and international journals.

Area of Expertise

  • Human Resource Management
  • Leadership

Publications & Research Work

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Management at Iqra University, Karachi. He holds more than 17 years of full-time university teaching, research, mentorship, and graduate thesis supervision experience. Additionally, he has been serving as the Cluster Head (Management) since January 2020 at the Main Campus. He is currently a member of the advisory and review boards of 18 national and international scholarly journals. 

He has presented various research ideas at international conferences abroad and has published over 25 research papers in national and international journals with 700+ Google citations. He has also authored a monograph on Leadership and Strategy published in Germany. He is an HEC-approved PhD supervisor and five Ph.D. candidates are going to complete their doctoral thesis under his sole supervision. In addition to supervising several industrial projects, 32 MPhil and hundreds of MBA students have successfully passed their research thesis in the Management discipline under his sole supervision. His research interests include the dark side of leadership, workplace mistreatment, multilevel modeling, and creative performance in higher education. He completed a ten-day comprehensive Training of Trainers conducted by Sindh HEC in May 2023.

Dr. Shahnawaz earned his Ph.D. degree in Management from an AACSB and AMBA-accredited business school of Malaysia in 2021. Earlier, he received his MPhil from Iqra University, a ‘triple-crown’ (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS-accredited) MBA from Newcastle University (UK), Postgraduate Diploma from Stratford College London (UK), and B.Sc. (Honours) with Distinction from London Metropolitan University, UK. He has secured seven consecutive distinctions in his academic career and has clinched First Class First Position at Sindh Board of Technical Education. He has been associated with Iqra University as a permanent faculty member in the Department of Business Administration since August 2008. His main hobbies include horse-riding, playing scrabble, cooking, bird-farming, and long driving.

KHK Tahir, M Hashim, A Iqbal, MAF Khar, AA Khan, Central European Management Journal 30 (4), 523-535 (2022)

I Bashir, NI Quraishi, MAF Khar, KHK Tahir, A Javaid, Central European Management Journal 30 (3), 264-270 (2022)

Publish an article “WTO and agriculture sector of Pakistan” July 2012, for Jahangir’s World Time Magazine.