Associate Professor
 

Profile

Rabia is actively involved in undergraduate education in department of Management at Dhofar University through her teaching and curriculum development activities. Her major area of expertise is management with a focus on organizational behavior and HRM. She has taught a number of undergraduate courses including Human Resource Management, Leadership for Results, Principles of Management, Business Ethics, and Research Methodology. At master level she has taught strategic Human Resource Management and Entrepreneurship courses.

Rabia’s teaching style focuses on student engagement. She tries to make things simplified for the students and emphasizes a lot on contextualizing the content. Her effectiveness of her teaching pedagogy is reflected in the encouraging reviews from students despite the language barrier.

She has supervised 20 MS/ Mphil researches, approximately 90 master and 50 undergraduate researches.

Research

Areas of expertise:
Rabia’s research interests are in the areas of Leadership; HR practices especially High Performance Work Systems, Organizational and individual characteristics, and Innovation. Since her PhD in 2010, she has pursued a set of integrated activities for research, teaching, and service in the area of Human resource management. She is particularly interested in the way individual and organizational characteristics play their role in higher performance of the organization. Dr. Imran has 31 refereed and indexed journal publications, 17, conference publications, 1 book and 1 book chapter.

Engagement

Business and Academic Communities Engagement:
Rabia is a member of Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, British Academy of Management and a Senior Member International Economics Development and Research Center (IEDRC. She has been a session chair in many of the international conferences and is a reviewer of many journals and reputable international conferences.

Within Dhofar University she has always made continuing productive contributions by being involved in the college level committees, including college academic council, college recruitment committee, college research committee, course equivalency committee, academic support services committee, doctoral program development committee and staff support and welfare committee. She has also been a volunteer for other committees such as Alumni committee. She has also been involved in university level committee i.e. quality assurance and OAAA accreditation committees.

Teaching

Rabia is actively involved in undergraduate education in department of Management and Marketing at Dhofar University through her teaching and curriculum development activities. Her major area of expertise is management with a focus on organizational behavior and HRM. She has taught a number of undergraduate courses including principles of Management, Human Resource Management, Business Ethics, Leadership and Research methodology. At master level she has taught strategic Human Resource Management and Entrepreneurship courses.

Rabia’s teaching style focuses on student engagement. She tries to make things simplified for the students and emphasizes a lot on contextualizing the content. Her effectiveness of her teaching pedagogy is reflected in the encouraging reviews from students despite the language barrier.
She has supervised 20 MS/ Mphil researches, approximately 90 master and 50 undergraduate researches.