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Completed Bachelor's (2008), MSc (2009), MS/M.Phill. (2014) degrees in Economics from International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Later achieved a Master's in Business Administration (2016) from Dublin Business School, Ireland. Published several research articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Works in the areas of Social Sciences with an emphasis on Management Sciences, Business Management, and Economics.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Altaf Akbar

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1012-9226-E72D
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3116-8813

Email addresses

  • altafakbar@ua.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Business and Management
Education
Degree Classification
2020/09/05 - 2024/07/05
Ongoing
 DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS SCIENCES (3rd CYCLE) (Doutoramento)
Major in Management
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015/04/04 - 2016/07/20
Concluded
 Master in Business Administration (MBA) (Master)
Major in Human Resource Management
Dublin Business School, Ireland
"Factor Influencing Job Satisfaction among Health care assistants In Dublin" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2012/02/03 - 2014/08/29
Concluded
 MS Economics (Master)
Major in Economics
International Islamic University, Pakistan
"Do Microfinance Programs Really Help The Poor? Evidence from Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, (PPAF)-Pakistan " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/09/04 - 2009/08/30
Concluded
 MSc Economics (Master)
Major in Economics
International Islamic University, Pakistan
2004/09/06 - 2008/07/10
Concluded
 BSc HONS Economics (Bachelor)
Major in Economics
International Islamic University, Pakistan
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/07/20 - 2020/12/12 Lecturer (University Teacher) HITEC University Department of Management Sciences, Pakistan
HITEC University, Pakistan

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/07/10 - 2019/07/20 Carreiras / Categorias Subsistentes SOFTIER Company, Pakistan
SOFTIER Company, Pakistan
2017/10/15 - 2018/06/30 Carreiras / Categorias Subsistentes BQ International, Pakistan
BQ International, Pakistan
2010/09/01 - 2015/04/01 Encarregado Geral Operacional (Assistente Operacional) Punjab AIDS Control Program, Pakistan
Punjab AIDS Control Program, Pakistan
2009/09/01 - 2010/08/31 Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico) Executive Business Center, Pakistan
Executive Business Center, Pakistan

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/08/01 - Current Online Teaching to Undergraduate Students Ibadat International University Islamabad, Pakistan
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/07/20 - 2023/10/20 Blue Route Project - UAlg
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PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
 Universidade do Algarve
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Akbar, Altaf. "Leadership Styles and Innovative Work Behaviour: Mediated Moderation of Organizational Embodiment and Engagement". Journal of Management Practices, Humanities and Social Sciences 7 6 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.33152/jmphss-7.6.5.
    Open access • Accepted • 10.33152/jmphss-7.6.5
  2. Altaf Akbar; Department of Economics, Management, University of Aveiro, Portugal. "Controlled and Autonomous Motivation Relation with Social Media Network Content Contribution: Post-COVID-19 Scenario". Journal of Digitovation and Information System 2 2 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.54433/jdiis.2022100013.
    10.54433/jdiis.2022100013
  3. Lwin Phone Myat; Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad; Indra Neel Pulidindi; Hamed Algarni; Laveet Kumar; Abul Kalam; S. Wageh; et al. "Effect of Polyethylene Glycol and Activated Carbon Macroparticles on Thermal Conductivity of Paraffin Wax for Thermal Storage Applications". Polymers (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/14/19/4181.
    10.3390/polym14194181
  4. Altaf Akbar. "IoT malware detection architecture using a novel channel boosted and squeezed CNN". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18936-9.
    10.1038/s41598-022-18936-9
  5. "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Laser Based Biomedical Sensor Development and Examination of Device Trajectory". Sensors 22 9 (2022): 3413-3413. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22093413.
    10.3390/s22093413
  6. "Role of Information System Strategies, Business Intelligence and Analytics used to Enhance Firm Performance: Mediating role of Innovation Ambidexterity". Journal of Digitovation and Information System 1 2 (2021): 13-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.54433/jdiis.2021100006.
    10.54433/jdiis.2021100006
  7. "Factors Influencing the Usage of Instagram for Business and its Effect on Financial Performance and Non-Financial Performance". Journal of Digitovation and Information System 1 (2021): 43-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.54433/jdiis.2021100004.
    10.54433/jdiis.2021100004
  8. Altaf Akbar. "Investment climate analysis: A case of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa economy". Journal of Administrative and Business Studies 7 4 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.20474/jabs-7.4.2.
    10.20474/jabs-7.4.2
Online resource
  1. Factors influencing job satisfaction among healthcare assistants (HCA). 2017. https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:55469711.
  2. Do microfinance programs really help the poor? evidence from Pakistan poverty alleviation fund (PPAF). 2014. http://opac.iiu.edu.pk:64445/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=181714.