ISLAMIC WORK ETHICS (IWE) TOWARDS THE ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT Syukurriah Idrus Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Machang, 18500, Kelantan, MALAYSIA e-mail: syukuriah@kelantan.uitm.edu.my Prof. Dr.Fauziah Noordin Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, 40450,Selangor, MALAYSIA e-mail: fauziah716@salam.uitm.edu.my Yusrina Hayati Nik Muhammad Naziman Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Machang, 18500, Kelantan, MALAYSIA e-mail: yusrina@kelantan.uitm.edu.my Nadia Farleena Aznan Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Machang, 18500, Kelantan, MALAYSIA e-mail: nadia910@kelantan.uitm.edu.my Azmahani Othman @ Yaacob Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Machang, 18500, Kelantan, MALAYSIA e-mail: azma928@kelantan.uitm.edu.my Abstract— the study investigates the implication of Islamic work ethics (IWE) towards the organizational commitment and the moderating impact of job involvement. IWE is analogous to the concept of Islam that emphasizes cooperation in work, and consultation is seen as a way of overcoming obstacles and avoiding mistakes to meet one’s needs and establish equilibrium in one’s individual and social life. IWE is examined on how far the employees practicing what they have claims to be for the organization The result will determine impact of the implementation of Islamic work ethic and the employee commitment towards the organization. Other than that it will determine the understanding of the Islamic work ethics from the employee perspective. This research will help the management to determine the understanding of the employee towards Islamic work ethics and to measure the element in Islamic work ethics that lead to the organizational commitment. Keywords-component; Islamic work ethics, job involvement, organizational commitment, affective commitment, continuace commitment and normative commitment. I. INTRODUCTION The relationship between protestant work ethics toward organizational commitment has received considerable attention in commitment literature in reference [1]. There are five universal form of work commitment has been study in previous research, reference [1] and [2] that were mentioning on the examine the reciprocal relation between the commitment themselves, as well as the influence on each other such as protestant work ethic, career commitment, job commitment and the organizational commitment. Based on model by reference [3] the study determines that protestant work ethics will influence job involvement insofar as this will lead to the full commitment of the employee towards their job. The study in protestant 2011 IEEE Colloquium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research (CHUSER 2011), Dec 5-6 2011, Penang 978-1-4673-0020-9/11/$26.00 ©2011 IEEE 402