YU -AlKhobar

Dr. Karim Rabiul

Assistant Professor of Management

Biography:

Dr. Md Karim Rabiul is an Assistant Professor of Management at Al Yamamah University. Prior to joining Al Yamamah University, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a lecturer at Prince of Songkla University in Thailand.

He has a comprehensive academic background, holding a doctoral degree in Management from Universiti Utara Malaysia (AACSB-accredited), an MBA from the University of Sunderland, a Postgraduate Diploma in Hospitality from the University of West London, and a Foundation Degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management from the Management Development Institute of Singapore.

His teaching interests include Hospitality Management, Leadership and People Management, Business Research Methodology, Strategic Management, and Guiding Statistics. His research focuses on leadership, organizational behavior, leadership communication, and human resource management practices.

Currently, he serves on the editorial advisory board for the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights. Additionally, he has reviewed more than 240 manuscripts for various top-tier journals, including:

  • International Journal of Hospitality Management
  • International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
  • Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management
  • Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
  • Management Decision
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Journal of Management Development
  • Management Research Review
  • European Journal of Management and Business Economics
  • Journal of Quality Assurance in Tourism and Hospitality
  • International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration
  • Sustainability
  • Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights
  • Administrative Sciences
  • Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication
  • Business Perspectives and Research

Publications:

  1. Rabiul, M. K., & Yean, T. F. (2021). Leadership styles, motivating language, and work engagement: An empirical investigation of the hotel industry. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 92, 102712.
  2. Rabiul, M. K. (2024). Does one’s sense of psychological safety mitigate the link between workplace ostracism and employee vitality? Meaningful work as a boundary role. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 114, 1-9.
  3. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2024). An investigation of the interrelationships of leadership styles, psychological safety, thriving at work, and work engagement in the hotel industry: A sequential mediation model. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 113, 103508.
  4. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2024). Effects of servant leadership on service quality: Meditating roles of employees’ relational energy perceptions with managers and emotional energy perceptions toward work roles. Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, 0(0), 0-0.
  5. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2021). The role of servant leadership, self-efficacy, high performance work systems, and work engagement in increasing service-oriented behavior. Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, 31(4), 504-526.
  6. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2023). Connecting transformational leadership and emotional energy to job performance: the boundary role of meaningful work. Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management. 32 (8), 1126-1145
  7. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2022). Fostering quality customer service during COVID-19: The role of managers’ oral language, employee work engagement, and employee resilience. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 53, 50-60.
  8. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2023). Task performance of hotel employees: Role of ostracism, meaningfulness, and emotional exhaustion. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 56, 314-321.
  9. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2021). Construct validation of leaders’ motivating language in the context of the hotel industries of Bangladesh and Malaysia. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 33(8), 2695-2720.
  10. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2023). Workplace ostracism and service-oriented behaviour: Employees’ workload and emotional energy. Management Decision. 62(4), 1323-1340.
  11. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2023). Transformational leadership style and psychological safety to meaningful work: moderating role customer incivility. Journal of Management Development, 43(1), 49-67.
  12. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2023). Motivating language and employees' need satisfaction to service quality: Conservation of resources and speech act theories. Management Research Review. 46(12), 1783-1801
  13. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2021). Linking human resources practices to employee engagement in the hospitality industry: The mediating influences of psychological safety, availability and meaningfulness. European Journal of Management and Business Economics, 32(2), 223-240.
  14. Rabiul, M. K., Sigala, M., & Karim, R. A. (2025). Commitment to quality service in hospitality: Role of human resources practices, turnover intention, organizational engagement, and adaptability. European Journal of Management and Business Economics.
  15. Rabiul, M. K., & Panha, I. (2024). Motivating language and relational energy to performance: Workload as moderator. Anatolia, 0(0).
  16. Rabiul, M. K. (2022). Does transactional leadership generate work engagement in the hotel industry? The role of motivating language and job prestige. Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism, 1-25.
  17. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2021). Leadership styles, psychological factors, and employee commitment to service quality in the hotel industry. Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism, 23(4), 853-881.
  18. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2023). Managers’ motivating language and employees’ job engagement: role of meaningfulness and employee-manager relationship. Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism.
  19. Rabiul, M. K. et al. (2021). Linking leadership styles and two-way communication to engagement: A study among the hospitality employees in Bangladesh. International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, 23(6), 1219-1241.
  20. Rabiul, M. K. (2022). Linking leadership styles to communication competency and work engagement: Evidence from the hotel industry. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights, 6(2), 425-446.
  21. Yasami, M., Rabiul, M. K., Promsivapallop, P., & Zhu, H. (2022). The COVID-19 crisis and factors driving international tourists’ preferences for contactless dining services. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 34(11), 4029-4051.
  22. Jarumaneerat, T., Rabiul, M. K., Prideaux, B., & Promsicapallop, P. (2023). Pandemic travel fear, travel intention, and self-protection intention of Chinese tourists: An application of protection motivation theory. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. 28(9), 1019-1030.
  23. Karim, R. A., Rabiul, M. K., Ahamed, T., Karim, D. N., & Mehzabeen, M. (2024). Integrating Green Entrepreneurial Orientation, Green Information Systems, and Management Support with Green Supply Chain Management to Foster Firms’ Environmental Performance. Sustainability, 16(12), 4921.
  24. Karim, R. A., Rabiul, M. K., & Arafat, S. (2023). Factors influencing tourists’ behavioural intentions towards beach destinations: the mediating roles of destination experience and destination satisfaction. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights.
  25. Karim, R. A., Rabiul, M. K., & Kawser, S. (2023). Linking green supply chain management practices and behavioural intentions: the mediating role of customer satisfaction. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights. 7(2), 1148-1168.
  26. Karim, R. A., & Rabiul, M. K. (2022). The relationships of corporate sustainability, customer loyalty, and word of mouth: The mediating role of corporate image and customer satisfaction. Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism, 25(3), 421-441.
  27. Karim, R. A., Rabiul, M. K., Ishrat, M., Promsivapallop, P., & Kawser, S. (2023). Can blockchain payment services influence customers’ loyalty intention in the hospitality industry? A mediation assessment. Administrative Sciences, 13(3), 85.
  28. Karim, R. A., Rabiul, M. K., & Kawser, S. (2023). Connecting e-Customer Relationship Management and e-Loyalty to Willingness to Recommend a Bank Service: The Sequential Mediating Roles of e-Satisfaction and e-Service Quality. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication.
  29. Karim, R. A., Rabiul, M. K., Taskia, A., & Jarumaneerat, T. (2023). Millennial customer engagement with Fintech services: The mediating role of trust. Business Perspectives and Research.
  30. Karim, R. A., Rabiul, M. K., Tahrin, S., & Syed, A. (2024). The Nexus between CRM and Behavioral Loyalty in Hotel Sector: The Mediating Role of Relationship Quality (Trust & Satisfaction). Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, 1(1), 1-18.
  31. Karim, R. A., Rabiul, M. K., Munira, S., Karim, D. N., & Kawser, S. (2025). Fostering employee retention intention through talent development practices, employee empowerment and organisational learning in the private banking sector. The learning organization, 0(0), 1-27.
  32. Miraz, M. H., Rabiul, M. K., Adeyinka-Ojo, S., Nair, V., Tariq Hasan, M., Hossain, M. A., & Ha Jin, H. (2025). Digital literacy, marketing ability and tourist healthcare facilities influence tourists' intention to visit Asian countries through the moderation of AI. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes.
  33. Patwary, A. K., Rasoolimanesh, S. M., Rabiul, M. K., Aziz, R. C., & Hanafiah, M. H. (2022). Linking environmental knowledge, environmental responsibility, altruism, and intention toward green hotels through ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 34(12), 4653-4673.
  34. Al Karim, R., Kabir, M. R., Rabiul, M. K., Kawser, S., & Salam, A. (2024). Linking green supply chain management practices and environmental performance in the manufacturing industry: A hybrid SEM-ANN approach. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31(9), 13925-13940.
  35. Karim, R. A., Jebunnesa, U., & Rabiul, M. K. (2025). Linking talent management, work engagement and sustainable organizational performance: The mediating role of perceived supervisor support and perceived organizational support. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication.
  36. Karim, R. A., Kawser, S., Rabiul, M. K., Chowdhury, T., & Murtaza, F. N. (2024). Green supply chain management practices and environmental performance in the healthcare sector: The mediating role of green innovation. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication.
  37. Karim, R. A., Sobhani, F. A., Rabiul, M. K., Lepee, N. J., Kabir, M. R., & Chowdhury, M. A. (2022). Linking Fintech payment services and customer loyalty intention in the hospitality industry: The mediating role of customer experience and attitude. Sustainability, 14(24), 16481.
  38. Patwary, A. K., Mohamed, M., Rabiul, M. K., Mehmood, W., Ashraf, M. U., & Adamu, A. A. (2022). Green purchasing behaviour of international tourists in Malaysia using green marketing tools: Theory of planned behaviour perspective. Nankai Business Review International, 13(2), 246-265.
  39. Patwary, A. K., Alwi, M. K., Rehman, S. U., Rabiul, M. K., Babatunde, A. Y., & Alam, M. M. (2022). Knowledge management practices on innovation performance in the hotel industry: Mediated by organizational learning and organizational creativity. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, 73(4/5), 662-681.
  40. Patwary, A. K., Azam, N. R., Ashraf, M. U., Muhamed Yusoff, A., Mehmood, W., & Rabiul, M. K. (2023). Examining employee performance through knowledge management practices, organisational commitment and capacity building in the Malaysian hotel industry. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, 74(3/4), 733-752.

Teaching:

  • Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality
  • Guiding Statistics
  • Business Statistics
  • International Business in Hospitality and Tourism
  • Contemporary leadership
  • Human Resources Management
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Negotiation and Conflict Management

Services:

I serve as an Editorial Advisory Board member for the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, and Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights.

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