Basic Management Traits for Today's Global Competitive Environment

This study identifies and analyses basic management traits that are important for managers and organizations in toda's global competitive environment. Common effective management practices could be found in successful organizations. Among those practices are establishing well-defined values and goals and working to make employees accept those values as their own, knowing the organization's clients and working to find and keep those clients satisfied, developing and supporting employees, and communicating clearly. This chapter elaborates five basic management practices that must be mastered by all managers and Its importance for today's highly competitive business environment.

Empowering Spiritual Leadership in Organisations

This chapter attempts to examine spiritual leadership in the digital age. The elaboration of featured characteristics from the hikmah (wise-based performance) will be conducted referring to the several literatures critically in line with the main subject of related topic, such as from journals, chapters, proceedings, and also monograph works. The finding reveals that expanding the pathway of spiritual leadership together with hikmah distinctive feature is drawn into the particular attention through divine governance, responsible integrity, and caring consistent awareness in a properly good organisation management. The implication is that spiritual leadership with hikmah offered the continued consistency of emphasising the service mutually in line with the wide-ranging standpoint in the workplace atmosphere. This chapter is expected to contribute to disseminating the knowledge understanding of spiritual leadership in line with hikmah-based performance.

Islamic Leadership in Building a Supportive Workplace Culture to Overcome Discrimination of Women in the Workplace

Many Muslim leaders, entrepreneurs, and managers in Malaysia successfully apply the Al-Quran and Sunnah to their business organizations. In an organization, Islam stresses the cooperation and sense of collectiveness among the employees, as in fact, the religion cannot be practiced in separation. The collective efforts of people in a work situation should be aimed at achieving a certain goal since organizations are composed of very distinct people who are each of unique character and contribute in a particular way based on cultural diversity. In order to create an ethical organization culture that provides a fair treatment to all employees, Islamic leadership principles would become the best method for realizing it. Many verses in the Al-Quran explains justice and honesty in trade as well as courtesy and fairness in employment. In succession, managers should follow many values and norms in Islam as regards the practice in the organization.

Personal Branding and Teachers' Perspectives on Leadership of the Prophet

The leadership styles of the Prophet consist of Shiddiq, Amanah, Tabligh, and Fathanah, which can be adopted as teacher leadership styles. Personal branding in Islamic perspective is a character that can be imaged by someone so that other people who see it can characterize that person, while leadership in a teacher's personal branding can be seen from the akhlaq possessed by the teacher in managing the class so that the learning process teaches work effectively. This chapter explains the definition of leadership and the leadership style of teachers in the classroom, the leadership style of the Prophet Muhammad SAW, the definition of personal branding, and how teachers can implement the type of leadership of the Prophet in leading classes that will be used as role models for their students through their personal branding assessment. It aims at how a teacher can make a personal branding who will be a role model and idolized by students in the class so that he can become a leader according to the perspective of the leadership of the Prophet Muhammad.

Principles and Values of Islamic Communication in Organizations

This chapter discusses Islamic communication principles and values which are ideal for any organizations. The discussion starts by elaborating communication from Islamic point of view. The discussion continues by deliberation on communication values and their relationship with good organization. Some thoughts of Muslims' prominent scholars that are relevant to communication are highlighted to integrate them towards the establishment of an ideal Islamic organization. The deliberations on Islamic values are highlighted through five pertinent values and their roles in building up a solid organization.

Distinguishing Leadership Between Islam and Conventional Perspectives

The purpose of this study is to compare between conventional and Islamic leadership which have different styles, approaches, and views. It consists of viewpoints rather than empirical findings which are considered crucial in understanding comprehensively the whole concept of both leadership views. This would neglect some negative or misperceptions especially for the Islamic leadership approach. By discussing each of the elements and its content on both leadership views, further studies and researches could be conducted in order to examine or test those elements empirically. This could be beneficial for the practitioners or public figures who are the leaders in their workplaces for adopting or adapting some key principles from both leadership views. Some experiences of leaders in Muslim or non-Muslim countries will be included in this chapter, so that more arguments and examples could be implemented. In Islamic leadership, the Islamic teachings based on Al-Qur'an and Hadith are fundamental principles and the main sources for every discussion.

Succession Planning on Muslim Family Enterprises

In Islamic faith and ideology, tremendous emphasis is paid to leadership as an essential instrument for realizing an ideal society which is built on fairness and compassion. Muslims practice the Islamic faith, which Islamic law regulates the faithful's way of life, from moral issues to etiquette and business conduct. Established laws governing the Muslim's behaviour and activities are included in Sharia decisions, and many Islamic teachings deal with business activities. The business etiquettes and rules of succession are contained in Sharia laws. Sharia law offers guidelines on integrity, fairness, risk, fraud, bribery, and kindness in business activities. The family business culture is influenced by the business element of the enterprises, which offers principles, mutual goals, commitment towards a prosperous future, and complimentary relationships between enterprises. The family enterprises are considered in a socio-cultural and religious environment in which the business is operated to gain a greater awareness of leaders' succession and successor development.

Islam, Opinion Leaders, and Social Media Influencer

Social media plays an important role in disseminating information and news to the audience. Through its influencer, the information could be shared faster in a wider spectrum. Meanwhile, the opinion leaders greatly influence other people's decision making, attitudes, behaviors, and are perceived to be models for others. However, in Islam, the use of social media is regulated and has to comply with the principles and values stated in the hadith of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as well as the verses in the Al-Qur'an. Every Muslim has the responsibility to share valid and credible information to everyone regardless of their religion. The social media platforms can be used by Muslims to interact and understand the content more easily. Islam emphasizes the ethics and moral aspects in any interaction or communications. In fact, Islam has a da'wah system where the communication and understanding of the content or messages must be clearly identified and discussed before spreading to others.

The Importance of Qalb for Effective Leadership Competency in Organization

Leadership competencies consist of several skills and behaviours of leaders that could influence leadership performance. This study aims to explore leadership competencies based on the nature of human being. In doing so, this article discusses the relationship of Qalb (Heart) and leadership as well as the importance of Qalb (Heart) for institutional leadership competencies. This includes examining the nature and functions of Qalb (Heart) which could contribute to the practice of effective leadership in organization. The implication of Qalb (Heart) as the centre for leadership competencies in organization is also presented in this chapter. This is done by breaking down examples of prominent leaders' leadership behaviours in different situations. This article concludes that organizational leadership competencies should never be separated from the the basic source of human being or Qalb (Heart). This is because Qalb (Heart) locates the spiritual centre of human being that very powerful to determine the behaviour of leaders.

Islamic Business Ethics and Bank Competitiveness

Over the recent economic history, the world banking industry has gone through exponential developments. This sectorial growth has been paved with ever-increasing challenges linked to the problematique of business ethics, banking governance, and industry regulation. As global banking operations continue to grow, the need for a global business ethics re-evolution has become a matter of urgency. Within this historical context, the concept of Islamic business ethics and ethical banking has evolved equally capturing the attention of industry professionals and academic scholars. These developments have created a global niche market for Islamic banking, and it became clear that the success of Islamic bank global redeployment in a hyper-competitive banking environments should be embedded on the constant creation of new short-term competitive advantages so as to sustain sustainable competitive advantage.