Dr. Nazrul Islam
@iub.ac.bd
Professor, School of Business and Entrepreneurship
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)
Nazrul Islam is a professor of International Business at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). He began his career in Academia in 1991 at Khulna University in the Discipline of Business Administration. In 2004, he joined BRAC University as an Associate Professor of Management. In 2005, he joined North South University’s School of Business as an Associate Professor. In 2007, he joined East West University as a Professor, where he also served as a Dean of the Faculty of Business and Social Studies. Since 2008, Prof. Islam has served as a Business School Dean at various universities like East West University, Eastern University, Canadian University of Bangladesh and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Northern University Bangladesh. Prof. Islam has supervised two PhD scholars and three M. Phil students at Bangladesh University of Professionals. Prof. Islam has published more than 100 research papers which were published in national and international refereed journals indexed by Scopus and ADBC.
EDUCATION
Professor Nazrul Islam has completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in International Business from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. Dr. Islam also obtained his Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com - Honors) and Master of Commerce (M. Com) degrees in Management from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Business and International Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, General Business, Management and Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation
Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
Md. Shamsul Arefin, Md. Shariful Alam, Nazrul Islam, and Mateusz Molasy
Emerald
PurposeResearchers have shown increasing interest, in recent times, in organizational politics and how it affects employees and organizations. This paper aims to investigate how perceived organizational politics (POPS) impact employee behaviors such as task performance, organizational citizenship and turnover intention, by affecting work-family conflict.Design/methodology/approachA sample of 287 full-time frontline hotel employees in Bangladesh was collected. A hierarchical regression analysis was applied to test the hypotheses. Data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software.FindingsThe results show that work–family conflict plays a mediating role in the indirect effect of POPS on task performance, organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and turnover intention. The findings of the study also suggest that POPS has a positive association with work–family conflict and turnover intention, and negative association with task performance and OCB.Research limitations/implicationsThis study cannot confirm causal inference, which can be the scope for future studies.Practical implicationsManagers may design the work environment in ways that ensure work and family interface and employee retention. Training programs can help employees deal with organizational politics and potential impact on work and nonwork problems. Managers should provide employees with the necessary support to sustain in-role and extra-role behavior in the political environment.Originality/valueTo the best of our knowledge, no prior studies have been carried out with this scope in the South Asian context.
Md. Shamsul Arefin and Nazrul Islam
SAGE Publications
Training and development activities in the banking sector of Bangladesh are quite extensive due to the compliance requirements for the central bank and other banks. These training programmes focus not only on increasing knowledge but also on transferring that knowledge to the job. However, the effectiveness with which training is transferred primarily depends on the motivation to transfer. There is extant research from recent years on the motivation to transfer training in different industries and in this sector. However, little is known about the motivation to transfer training in the banking industry of Bangladesh. Thus, this study attempts to identify the factors that influence the motivation to transfer training in the banking sector of Bangladesh. A sample of 275 employees who obtained training from banks was surveyed using a structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using the structural equation modelling (SEM) technique. The results show that self-efficacy, supervisory support and opportunity to perform have a significant impact on the motivation to transfer training in the banking industry of Bangladesh. This study suggests that the supervisory styles and working environment of banks play the most important role in motivating employees to transfer training in this sector of Bangladesh.
Muhammad Sabbir Rahman, AAhad M. Osman-Gani, Md. Abdul Momen, and Nazrul Islam
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Abstract The aim of this inquiry is to investigate the relationships among the antecedents of knowledge sharing effectiveness under the position of non-academic staff of higher learning institutions through an empirical test of a conceptual model consisting of trust, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, leadership style, workplace spirituality and online social network. This study used the respondents from the non-academic staff of higher learning institutions in Malaysia (n = 200), utilizing a self-administered survey questionnaire. The structural equation modeling approach was used to test the proposed hypotheses. The outcomes indicate that all the antecedents play a substantial function in knowledge sharing effectiveness. In addition, perceived risk plays a mediating role between trust and knowledge sharing effectiveness. On the other hand, this research also proved the communication skill also plays a mediating role between leadership style and knowledge sharing effectiveness. This study contributes to pioneering empirical findings on knowledge sharing literature under the scope of the non-academic staff perspective.
Muhammad Sabbir Rahman, Bashir Hussain, A.N.M. Meshquat Uddin, and Nazrul Islam
Elsevier BV
Saadia Shabnam and Nazrul Islam
SAGE Publications
The tremendous increase of the use of mobile phones in Bangladesh by the young users has expanded the cellular phones market that has also attracted the attention of the foreign investors. This article attempts to investigate underlying sets of consumer motives for using cellular phones in Bangladesh. A primary survey was conducted among 157 young Bangladeshi mobile phone users aged from 20 to 30 years reside in Dhaka city. Structured questionnaire was used to interview the respondents. Factor analysis was conducted to identify the factors for using cellular phones in Bangladeshi young mobile phone users. Results show that there are five important factors that are considered by the Bangladeshi young mobile phone users. The factors are concerned with value added services, social connectivity, connection with the family, obtaining information on foreign education and facing emergency situation. This study also identified five different patterns of possible segmentation of cellular phone users that is, conscious, connective, communicative, continental and contingent and constitute the basis for strategic positioning.
Nazrul Islam and G. M. Shafayet Ullah
Clute Institute
Fast food industry is a high growing sector of Bangladesh. It is concerned with the tastes and habits of the people. The food-taking habit especially in fast food segment has been changing very fast over last decade among the people of Dhaka - the capital city of Bangladesh. The reasons could be attributed by the increase of awareness, growth of education, development of information technology, and expansion of television channels and print media in Bangladesh. Hence, this paper aims at identifying the preference factors of fast food consumers living in Dhaka city. This study was conducted among the university students who usually eat fast food at their leisure time. To conduct the study, a total of 250 respondents were interviewed with a structured questionnaire. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used in analyzing the data. Multivariate analysis technique like factor analysis was performed to identify the preference factors of the fast food student-consumers of Bangladesh. Multiple regressions were run to identify the relationship between the factors identified and the overall preference of the consumers. Results show that the consumers give most importance on brand reputation of the food item followed by nearness to receive and accessibility, similarity of taste with previous experience, cost and quality of the food, discount and taste, cleanliness and hygiene, salesmanship and decoration, fat and cholesterol level, and self-service factors. This study suggests that the brand reputation, nearness and accessibility, similarity in taste, and cost and quality relationship should be emphasized to improve the attraction of the university students towards the fast food items in Bangladesh.
Nazrul Islam
SAGE Publications
This study deals with the job satisfaction of women workers and managerial policies of garment companies in Bangladesh. The garment industry is the fast growing export sector of Bangladesh. More than three fourths of total foreign earnings of the country come from this sector. This sector has a low labor cost advantage in producing garments. The manufacturing technology of garment production has been changing from labor-intensive to more sophisticated and capital-intensive production. This change creates dissatisfaction for the lower skilled workers because of their inability to adapt to the new manufacturing process. Work dissatisfaction reduces the performance of workers and, in turn, company performance is negatively affected. Hence, the strategies related to the use of sophisticated technology and to manage human resources for the production of garments for the international markets are crucial. Therefore, this study evaluates the impact of technological change on job satisfaction of women garment workers in Bangladesh. It also explores the strategies for decreasing dissatisfaction of lower skilled workers. The study identifies the relationship between job satisfaction and the overall impact of the change. A set of job satisfaction variables was developed from the Technological Change Survey (Slem and Levi, 1995). The overall impact is defined as how workers see the impact of change on income and benefits to the family, and the identity they have as a wage earner. The specific relationship between job satisfaction and the overall impact shows that fair pay, task significance, bureaucracy, conflicts, and sharing information are significantly related. Task significance and information sharing are positively related to the overall impact. Fair pay, bureaucracy, and conflicts are negatively and significantly related to the overall impact. Less fair pay, high bureaucracy, and more conflicts cause a limited positive overall impact on women workers. The positive relationships to technological change include improvement of task significance, salary increase, improvement of the quality of supervision, improved co-workers relations and increase benefits. The negative consequences are unfair pay, work dissatisfaction, bureaucracy, conflicts between management and workers, decreased information sharing, and decreased promotions for workers. Managers, in such a situation, may not be able to resist the increasing change required because of the new technologies but they can do more to manage the change through reducing the level of unfairness in all respects, the level of bureaucracy, the level of conflicts between workers and management, and increasing information sharing with workers. This could be achieved through appropriate human resource policies such as, fair pay, rewards for work, attention to the subordinates' feelings, work redesign, communicating company goals to workers, sharing information, increasing benefits, increasing promotions, and above all providing more skill training to women garment workers.
Barbara Igel and Nazrul Islam
Elsevier BV
F.W. Swierczek and N. Islam
IEEE
M.Z. Mamun, B. Igel, and N. Islam
IEEE
G Williams, F Billson, R Husain, S A Howlader, N Islam, and K McClellan
BMJ
Nazrul Islam
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Publications
1. Md. Farhad Hossain and Nazrul Islam. (2023). Impact of Effective Performance Appraisal Systems on Employee Motivation and Retention in Private Banking Industry of Bangladesh. Journal of Economics, Management and Trade, 29(8): 8-23. ISSN: 2456-9216. DOI: 10.9734/jemt/2023/v29i81111. Indexed by Copernicus ICV: 97.07, CrossRef.
2. Mohammad Alam Tareque and Nazrul Islam. (2023). The Relationship between Leadership Behavior and Firm Performance in the Ready-Made Garments Industries of Bangladesh. European Journal of Business and Management Research, 8(2): 1-15.
ISSN: 2456-9216. DOI: . Indexed by SCILIT,Crossref.
3. Hoque, M. S.; Islam, N. (2022). Leadership Behaviors of Women Entrepreneurs in SME Sector of Businesses, 2(2): 228-245. Published by: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). ISSN (E): 2673-7116. Published by: MDPI.
DOI: . Indexed by EBSCO & ProQuest.
4. Taskina Ali & Nazrul Islam. (2022). Integrating Porter-Lawler Theory of Motivation and Hofstede’s Dimensions of National Culture with Modeling Career Preferences of Graduating Students of Bangladesh: A Survey of Literature. International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT), 7(1): 912-918 ISSN: 2456-2165.
DOI: . Impact Factor: 7.176. Int’l Scientific Index (ISI), Indexed by Copernicus ICV: 97.07.