Dr. Muhammad Rafiq (Ph.D.) is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management at UCSI Graduate Business School at UCSI University (top 1% worldwide), Malaysia. Prior to his academic career, he was a Coordinator of UE Business School at the University of Education, Vehari Campus, Pakistan. Dr. Rafiq received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Business Administration from the School of Management (Association of MBA, AACSB, and CAMEA MBA accredited) of Harbin Institute of Technology, China (top 1% worldwide), Management Science in Management Sciences from the Air University, Pakistan, and BBA (Hons) in Marketing from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan.

His research examines numerous areas related to human resources and organizational behavior, such as job insecurity, work engagement, job attitudes, job embeddedness, and job outcomes. This work has been published in international refereed journals indexed on the Web of Science (WOS), Scopus, Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC), and Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS). His current Google Scholar Citation H-index is 16; Scopus H-index = 08; and Clarivate Analytics-Web of Science H- index = 08 till dated 19 September 2023. Dr. Rafiq publications are seen in journals such as Vision Journal (Sage, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Scopus; ABDC; ABS), Career Development International (Emerald, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), JCR 2022 IF = 2.443; Scopus; ABDC; ABS), WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment, and Rehabilitation (IOS Press, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); JCR 2022 IF: 1.803; Scopus; ABS), Education + Training (Emerald, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); IF = 3.058; Scopus; ABS), Frontiers in Psychology (Frontiers, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); JCR 2022 IF = 4.232; Scopus; ABS),  International Journal of Financial Studies (MDPI, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Scopus; ABDC), International Journal of Services Technology and Management (Inderscience, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Scopus), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); JCR 2022 IF: 4.614; Scopus), World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development (WASD, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Scopus), and among others. Dr. Rafiq is also presented his research work at several international conferences on management and social sciences  include Proceeding in the 31st International Business Information Management Association Conference (IBIMA 2018), Milan, Italy; 7th ESE International Conference on Management Science, Education Science and Human Development (ESE-MEH 2017) Manila, Philippine; Proceeding in the 2016 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, (ICMSE 2016) Olten, Switzerland;  Proceeding in the 2nd Asia-Pacific Management and Engineering Conference (APME 2016), Shanghai, China.

Dr. Rafiq is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Vision: The Journal of Business Perspectives (SAGE; Scopus; ABDC; ABS) and article editor for Sage Open Journal (SAGE; Social Science Citation Index (SSCI); Scopus). He is a guest editor of Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour Journal (Frontiers). He also serves as a reviewer for several journals, such as the International Journal of Human Resource of Management (Taylor & Francis, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); JCR 2022 IF = 6.026; Scopus; ABDC; ABS), International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (Emerald, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), JCR 2022 IF = 9.321; Scopus; ABDC; ABS), Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (Wiley, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); JCR 2022 IF = 1.490; Scopus; ABDC; ABS), International Journal of Educational Management (Emerald, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Scopus; ABDC; ABS), WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment, and Rehabilitation (IOS Press, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); JCR 2022 IF: 1.803; Scopus; ABS), Vision: The Journal of Business Perspectives (Sage, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Scopus; ABDC; ABS), and Human Systems Management (IOS Press, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Scopus; ABDC). Dr. Rafiq holds several professional memberships. He is a member of the Malaysia Institute of Human Resource Management (MIHRM), Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia (QRAM), and Productivity Association of Pakistan (PAP).

As an educator, Dr. Rafiq has been instrumental in classroom teaching. His teaching methodology within the class creates a healthy learning environment for his students. He is well-versed with the up-to-date technology in classroom teaching for online, hybrid, and face-to-face learning. Based on his services to the students in the classroom. Dr. Rafiq has been recognized by UE Business School and received the best rating consecutively from the last two academic years of teaching evaluation 2020-2021.