The relationship between spirituality and leader’s effectiveness: a perspective from the Holy Qur’an

This research is an attempt to reveal leadership concepts from the Qur'an. Despite decades of ongoing inquiry and increasing interest, research on leadership has ignored religious elements, especially form the Qur'an as a source of knowledge. Based on the characteristics of the Motaqeen ac...

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Main Authors:	Zandi Pour Joopari, GholamReza, Sulaiman, Mohamed, Naysary, Babak, Rashed, Nayal
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Caspian Journal of Applied Sciences Research 2013
Subjects:	HC Economic History and Conditions
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/30402/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/30402/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/30402/1/The_Relationship_between_Spirituality.pdf

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spelling	iium-304022013-07-25T08:12:47Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/30402/ The relationship between spirituality and leader’s effectiveness: a perspective from the Holy Qur’an Zandi Pour Joopari, GholamReza Sulaiman, Mohamed Naysary, Babak Rashed, Nayal HC Economic History and Conditions This research is an attempt to reveal leadership concepts from the Qur'an. Despite decades of ongoing inquiry and increasing interest, research on leadership has ignored religious elements, especially form the Qur'an as a source of knowledge. Based on the characteristics of the Motaqeen according to the Qur'an, the concept of Taqwa has been operationalized as having two distinct components, that is, Spirituality and Responsibility. This study tries to examine the relationship between the first component i.e. spirituality and leader's effectiveness. A cross-sectional field study was carried out in which spirituality was a self-constructed measurement while leadership effectiveness was constructed from existing scales in the literature. Multiple regression and hierarchal regression techniques using SPSS were used to test the hypotheses utilizing sample of 206 companies. The results show that leaders' level of spirituality influences the leaders' effectiveness, where one dimension of Spirituality, that is Belief, was found to predicate business leadership effectiveness. In the light of findings of present research several recommendations are made to improve the Spirituality of leaders within the organizational culture. Caspian Journal of Applied Sciences Research 2013-04 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/30402/1/The_Relationship_between_Spirituality.pdf Zandi Pour Joopari, GholamReza and Sulaiman, Mohamed and Naysary, Babak and Rashed, Nayal (2013) The relationship between spirituality and leader’s effectiveness: a perspective from the Holy Qur’an. Caspian Journal of Applied Sciences Research, 2 (4). pp. 8-16. ISSN 2251-9114 http://www.cjasr.com/volumesandissues/issued-articles/2013/87-2013-04/208-april-2013-2-4-02
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spellingShingle	HC Economic History and Conditions Zandi Pour Joopari, GholamReza Sulaiman, Mohamed Naysary, Babak Rashed, Nayal The relationship between spirituality and leader’s effectiveness: a perspective from the Holy Qur’an
description	This research is an attempt to reveal leadership concepts from the Qur'an. Despite decades of ongoing inquiry and increasing interest, research on leadership has ignored religious elements, especially form the Qur'an as a source of knowledge. Based on the characteristics of the Motaqeen according to the Qur'an, the concept of Taqwa has been operationalized as having two distinct components, that is, Spirituality and Responsibility. This study tries to examine the relationship between the first component i.e. spirituality and leader's effectiveness. A cross-sectional field study was carried out in which spirituality was a self-constructed measurement while leadership effectiveness was constructed from existing scales in the literature. Multiple regression and hierarchal regression techniques using SPSS were used to test the hypotheses utilizing sample of 206 companies. The results show that leaders' level of spirituality influences the leaders' effectiveness, where one dimension of Spirituality, that is Belief, was found to predicate business leadership effectiveness. In the light of findings of present research several recommendations are made to improve the Spirituality of leaders within the organizational culture.
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author	Zandi Pour Joopari, GholamReza Sulaiman, Mohamed Naysary, Babak Rashed, Nayal
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title	The relationship between spirituality and leader’s effectiveness: a perspective from the Holy Qur’an
title_short	The relationship between spirituality and leader’s effectiveness: a perspective from the Holy Qur’an
title_full	The relationship between spirituality and leader’s effectiveness: a perspective from the Holy Qur’an
title_fullStr	The relationship between spirituality and leader’s effectiveness: a perspective from the Holy Qur’an
title_full_unstemmed	The relationship between spirituality and leader’s effectiveness: a perspective from the Holy Qur’an
title_sort	relationship between spirituality and leader’s effectiveness: a perspective from the holy qur’an
publisher	Caspian Journal of Applied Sciences Research
publishDate	2013
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/30402/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/30402/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/30402/1/The_Relationship_between_Spirituality.pdf
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