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
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