Biography:

Omer joined COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI) as "Lecturer" in August 2005. Before joining CUI, he worked as Officer Grade III in Allied Bank Limited and as MTO in National Insurance Company Limited. In 2010, he was promoted as "Assistant Professor." He obtained his PhD in Resource Management from the Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia in 2014. Currently, he is working as "Tenured Associate Professor." He is an HEC Approved Supervisor. His research interests include workplace aggression/violence, workplace bullying/cyberbulling, destructive leadership, workplace terrorism, perceived organizational politics, and knowledge management. He also has a keen interest in both variance and covariance-based structural equation modeling (SEM). He has conducted several hands-on trainings on SEM using AMOS and SmartPLS in several universities. He is supervising research students at both masters and doctoral levels. Under his supervision, 33 master students have completed their theses, whereas 4 PhD students have completed their degree requirements. Currently, 5 PhD and 5 MS students are working under his supervision. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Business Ethics (FT 50), Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Personality and Individual Differences, Frontiers in Psychology, International Journal of Conflict and Violence, among others. He is "Associate Editor" for Frontiers in Psychology.