Forbis Ahamed

@msu.edu.my

Associate Professor, Department of Business Management and Law, Faculty of Business Management & Professional Studies
Management and Science University

Forbis Ahamed


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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Cognitive Neuroscience, Applied Psychology, Business, Management and Accounting
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Scopus Publications

Scopus Publications

  • CONTENT DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL MEDIA DYNAMICS: THE ROLE OF QUALITY AND ENGAGEMENT IN SHAPING TOURIST TRUST AND BEHAVIOR IN SAUDI ARABIA
    Tpm Testing Psychometrics Methodology in Applied Psychology, 2025
  • BEYOND LIKES AND SHARES: THE EFFECT OF INFLUENCER-FOLLOWER INTERACTION ON TRAVEL DECISIONS IN SAUDI ARABIA
    Mohammed Almohammed
    International Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2025
    Influencers on social media crucially have impact on consumer behavior, especially in the travel industry where decisions are made primarily through digital engagement. Knowing how influencer-follower dynamics affect travel decisions has become crucial in Saudi Arabia, a nation that is rapidly developing its tourism industry under Vision 2030. This study looks at how influencer-follower interactions affect the travel choices of domestic tourists in Saudi Arabia. It examines how these interactions build trust and shape behavioral intentions. We used a quantitative, cross-sectional design to collect data through an online questionnaire from 300 domestic tourists in Saudi Arabia who actively follow travel social media influencers. We analyzed the data using structural equation modeling (SEM) with SmartPLS. The measurement model showed reliability and validity. Path analysis found that influencer-follower interaction positively affects tourist trust (β = [Path Coefficient], p < .001) and directly impacts tourist reaction behavior (β = [Path Coefficient], p < .001). Trust partially mediated this relationship. The findings confirm that active communication between influencers and followers is essential for building trust and directly impacting travel planning and destination choices. For tourism marketers in Saudi Arabia, encouraging genuine interaction is as important as producing quality content.
  • Exploring Workplace Happiness: Islamic Leadership and Work Ethics Driving Engagement and Helping Behaviour
    Wahibur Rokhman, Muhammad Qoes Atieq, Forbis Ahamed, Shuana Zafar Nasir, Sehrish Shahid
    Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal, 2025
    Leadership and work ethics, particularly Islamic or faith-based, are crucial indicators of employees’ well-being and work engagement. It increases helping behaviour through motivation and satisfaction levels achieved from a supportive work environment. The research aim is to examine the influence of Islamic leadership and Islamic work ethics on helping behaviour and work engagement through happiness at work to verify this phenomenon, data has been collected from 320 employees working with Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across central Java, Indonesia. All question items from all variables are said to be valid with a value of more than 0.7 and reliable with a value of more than 0.5. This is quantitative design research where a convenience sampling technique was employed. Statistical analysis was done through SmartPLS, revealing a direct relationship among all study variables, such as Islamic leadership, to helping behaviours and work engagement. Additionally, the study identified a direct relationship between Islamic work ethics and helping behaviours, except for a link with work engagement; similarly, employees’ happiness at the workplace acts as a mediator in this study. The hypothesis is accepted because the significance value is more than 1.97. While previous studies have examined workplace happiness and engagement broadly, limited attention has been paid to the role of faith-based leadership and ethics within SMEs in culturally diverse settings like Central Java, Indonesia. This study offers a novel perspective by discussing the pivotal role of Islamic leadership and Islamic work ethics in shaping workplace dynamics, particularly helping behaviour and engagement through happiness.
  • Sincere behaviour: Moderating leadership, culture and lecture performance in higher education
    Fullchis Nurtjahjani, Forbis Ahamed, Ayu F. Puspita, Kadek S. Batubulan, Ane F. Novitasari
    SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 2025
    Orientation: Higher education institutions have the potential to produce quality human resources. For this reason, it is necessary to monitor the quality of its teaching workforce.Research purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence that transformational leadership and organisational culture have on the performance of lecturers and to examine the possible moderating effect that honest conduct may have on the link between these two factors.Motivation for the study: This study was conducted because the author wants to know the influence that transformational leadership and organisational culture have on the performance of lecturers through moderating sincere behaviour.Research approach/design and method: This study is considered explanation-grounded research. The sample consists of 170 Indonesian academics working at various universities. This research makes use of a technique known as structural equation modelling-partial least squares (SEM-PLS).Main findings: The study findings show a significant relationship between transformational leadership culture in the workplace and the impact on lecturer success. Furthermore, the results of the study suggest that sincerity plays a moderating function in the connection between transformative leadership and organisational culture on lecturer performance.Practical/managerial implications: The policy makers in higher education institutions could be able to implement policies for lecturers in improving lecturer performance through the application of transformational leadership and organisational culture.Contribution/value-add: The results of this research provide valuable insights for decision makers in an effort to improve lecturer performance.
  • HOW CAN A MENTOR’S ROLE ENHANCE A MENTEE’S CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS IN ORGANISATIONS?
    , NOR’AIN ABDULLAH, FORBIS AHAMED, , I WAYAN EDI ARSAWAN, , NURUL ASYIKEEN ABDUL JABAR, , MOHD FIKRI ISHAK, and
    Journal of Sustainability Science and Management, 2024
    This study was conducted to evaluate a direct relationship between mentors’ roles and mentees’ achievements. A total of 136 respondents in the Mentoring Programme for Public Service Department from the year 2014 to 2016 was purposively sampled. Data collected using questionnaires were analysed descriptively using Smart Partial Least Squares (SmartPLS) to evaluate the confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling for testing the hypothesised relations. The result revealed four important outcomes: First, career function was significantly related to mentees’ career satisfaction. Second, career function was significantly related to mentees’ career motivation. Third, psychosocial function was significantly related to mentees’ career satisfaction. Finally, psychosocial function was significantly related to mentees’ career motivation. These results demonstrate the ability of mentors to appropriately implement career and psychosocial functions can enhance mentees’ career achievements in the organisations examined.
  • EMPOWERMENT LEADERSHIP AS A PREDICTOR OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    Achmad Sani Supriyanto, Vivin Maharani Ekowati, Wahibur Rokhman, Forbis Ahamed, Misbahul Munir, Titis Miranti
    International Journal of Professional Business Review, 2023
    Purpose: This study aims to examine the relationship between empowerment leadership and organizational innovation. This analyzes the influence of empowerment leadership on organizational innovation, whether knowledge sharing mediates the effect of empowerment leadership on individual creativity, if individual creativity moderates the influence of empowerment leadership on organizational innovation, and how psychological empowerment mediates the effect of leadership on individual creativity.
 
 Theoretical framework: Empowerment leadership includes delegation of authority, participating in decision-making, informing employees about regulations, becoming a role model, showing concern, and interacting with the team members. Organizational innovation is the ability to generate and adopt new ideas or behaviors because it increases productivity and business performance. Knowledge sharing is a mechanism that fosters individual creative thinking and increases employees' creativity. Therefore, leaders tend to promote the practice of knowledge sharing by generating useful new ideas and thoughts.
 
 Design/methodology/approach: Respondents are lecturers at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Islamic Higher Education (IHE) in Java, Indonesia, who have been selected as participants. Data were analyzed using the PLS-SEM to test the modified results of several models.
 
 Findings: The results showed that empowerment leadership directly affects organizational innovation, knowledge sharing mediates the influence of empowerment leadership on Individual creativity howevet, it failed to mediate the effect of empowerment leadership on organizational innovation, while psychological empowerment failed to moderate the relationship between variables.
 
 Research, Practical & Social implications: This study added distinctive supports to the leadership literature by identifying key leadership behaviors that foster or impair individual creativity, knowledge sharing and organizational innovation through investigating their relationships with leadership styles in the same research model.
 
 Originality/value: This study indicates that empowerment leadership majorly affects organizational innovation. Furthermore, knowledge sharing plays an important role by mediating between variables for the development of organizational innovation.
  • The Prospect of Waqf in Financing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Yemen
    Abdo Yousef Qaid Saad, Mustafa Omar Mohammed, Ibrahim Al-Jubari, Forbis Ahamed
    Qudus International Journal of Islamic Studies, 2022
    The role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in economic development has been duly recognised. However, SMEs encounter a number of challenges. The most pressing obstacle SMEs face is the lack of finance. Therefore, it is extremely important to find new and suitable finance sources in order to support SMEs either in their establishment or growth phases. Waqf is regarded one of the best sources of finance in the Islamic financial system. There is much potential in its use to finance SMEs financing. The present study explored the prospect of Waqf as an Islamic financial instrument to finance SMEs. It further examined a proposed modified Waqf model and whether it was applicable in Yemen. The study has adopted a qualitative method in the form of semi-structured interviews with 6 experts from Waqf institutions and from SMEs developmental institutions. The experts interviewed are mainly SMEs owners, Waqf directors and beneficiaries specialized in the areas of Waqf and SMEs. The findings of the study indicate that Waqf appeared to be one of the most important instruments in financing such economic activities as it can play a crucial role in financing SMEs. Further, the study significantly contributed by suggesting a new method that will help in financing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Yemen. Thus, providing a finance for these firms will help to create more jobs for the low income, which in turn helps in the economic development.
  • The Legal Culture In the Distribution of Heritage Property Among the Muslim Community In Karas Kepoh Village, Pancur District, Rembang, Central Java
    Supriyadi Supriyadi, Forbis Ahamed
    Al Adalah, 2021
    This study aims to reveal the legal cultural background of the community in the distribution of inheritance in the village of Karas Kepoh, Pancur sub-district, Rembang district. All members of the village community can be said to have embraced Islam so that, theoretically, the community should follow Islamic law in the distribution of inheritance. In reality, however, they use the provisions in the Civil Code. This study uses a socio-legal research approach which is analyzed qualitatively. The results of the study indicate that several things underlie the legal culture of the community in the distribution of inheritance. First, the long history of Dutch colonialism which only knows the Civil Code ( Burgerlijk Wet Boek ). Second, almost all community members study in general education, only very few residents attend Islamic boarding schools. As a result, there are almost no community leaders or religious leaders who understand Islamic inheritance law ( farâid s). Thirds, village leaders in the past only justified or legalized the distribution of inheritance based on the Civil Code. Such things encourage the formation of an inheritance tradition that is not based on the provisions of Islamic law, but on the Civil Code instead. The tradition, then, turn out to be a culture that is then passed from a generation to the next generation.
  • Leadership style and innovativeness in the plantation sector: The mediating role of organizational culture
    International Journal of Innovation Creativity and Change, 2019
  • The role of social and psychological factors on entrepreneurial intention among islamic college students in Indonesia
    Wahibur Rokhman, Forbis Ahamed
    Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2015
    This study explores the influence of social and psychological factors on entrepreneurial behaviour among students studying at Islamic college of Kudus, Central Java, Indonesia. Three hundred undergraduates that represent four faculties were selected using cluster-sampling technique for the investigation. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression technique were used to analyse data. Results revealed that both social factors such as family background, education system and social status and psychological factors like need for achievement, propensity to risk and locus of control are quite prominent and significant indicators to become entrepreneurs. The study discovered that all the social attributes have impacts on entrepreneurship intention. University students who are properly trained can obviously play a leading role in this regard. This study is useful in identifying suitable students for any entrepreneurial activity in future. With the support of government, they can promote entrepreneurial culture in the country. Research on student entrepreneurship has intensified in some countries, but few have explored Islamic students in Indonesia.
  • Supervisory behaviour and employee work engagement: Interpersonal and institutional trust as mediator
    Forbis Ahamed, Arif Hassan
    Journal for Global Business Advancement, 2014
  • Authentic leadership, trust, and employees' work engagement: A comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia
    Forbis Ahamed, Arif Hassan, Junaidah Hashim
    Journal for Global Business Advancement, 2013