Work ethics: An Islamic prospective
By Muhammad Ahmad. 2011
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Islamic principles completely cover all prospects of life including working in organization. The impact of management style used in an organization play an important role in employee commitment towards its work. This paper is an effort to explore impact of Islamic work ethic on human resource of organization including the prospective of work conflict, job satisfaction, job turn over, turnover intentions and organizational commitment. Data for current study was collected personally through questionnaires from 18 branches of seven banks of Pakistan who practices Islamic banking. In total, 150 Muslims employees were targeted as respondent of current study, while response rate was above 85%. Results show that there is significant impact of Islamic work ethics on organizational commitment, job satisfaction and rewards while Islamic work ethic has no significant relation with intention to quit job. Out of seven, only three hypotheses were fully supported, while two were partially supported, however number of rejected hypothesis were two. Islamic work ethics are source to built greater morale in employees resulting greater job satisfaction. Adopting Islamic work ethics improves organizational commitment, source of motivation as well as reduces the negative intentions of quitting job.
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Citations in the corpus
- Impact Of Islamic Work Ethics, Competencies, Compensation, Work Culture On Job Satisfaction And Employee Performance: The Case Of Four Star Hotels (2020, background): “The development and empowerment of human resources is a process to improve human knowledge, expertise and Work ethic is a set of positive behaviors rooted in fundamental beliefs accompanied by total commitment to an integral work paradigm [25].”
- Islamic Work Ethic, innovative work behaviour, and adaptive performance: the mediating mechanism and an interacting effect (2017, background): “…of IWE on various outcomes which include organizational change, job satisfaction, job involvement, turnover intention, and organizational citizenship behaviour (see Ahmad, 2011; Khalil & Abu-Saad, 2009; Khan et al., 2015; Mohamed, Karim, & Hussein, 2010; Murtaza et al., 2014; Yousef, 2000a, 2001).”
- Impact of Islamic Work Ethics on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and Knowledge-Sharing Behaviors (2014, background): “For example, past studies have examined the effect of the IWE on organizational change, job satisfaction, job involvement, and turnover intentions (see, Yousef 2000, 2001; Khalil and Saad 2009; Mohamed et al. 2010; Ahmad 2011; Khan et al. 2013 for discussion).”
- Organizational Justice and Job Outcomes: Moderating Role of Islamic Work Ethic (2015, background): “Ahmadi (2011) found a positive relationship of distributive and procedural justice with job involvement.”
- Mediating effect of intrinsic motivation on the relationship between Islamic work ethic, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment in banking sector (2019, background): “and social dimensions (Ahmad, 2011), and states that work should be generally meaningful for the individual and society.”