The impact of spirituality and social responsibility on organizational citizenship behaviour from the Islamic perspective: empirical investigation of Malaysian businesses

The phenomenon of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) emanating from the Western value system has received enormous attention from researchers, however, the model of organizational citizenship behavior from other cross cultural or religious perspectives such as the Islamic perspective, has not...

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Main Authors: Naail Mohammed Kamil, Mohamed Sulaiman, Sugumaran Selladurai, Nadhira Khalid
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysian 2015
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9102/
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spelling ukm-91022016-12-14T06:48:58Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9102/ The impact of spirituality and social responsibility on organizational citizenship behaviour from the Islamic perspective: empirical investigation of Malaysian businesses Naail Mohammed Kamil, Mohamed Sulaiman, Sugumaran Selladurai, Nadhira Khalid, The phenomenon of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) emanating from the Western value system has received enormous attention from researchers, however, the model of organizational citizenship behavior from other cross cultural or religious perspectives such as the Islamic perspective, has not been much explored. This empirical study attempts to enrich the understanding of OCB from Islamic management perspective. In view of this, Western OCB framework was studied and further enriched in light of the Islamic heritage (Qur’an and Sunnah, i.e. that Prophetic tradition of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him) and established the need for Taqwa serving as antecedent of citizenship behaviors from the Islamic perspective. The survey data used for this empirical research was drawn from 405 Muslim employees in business organizations in Malaysia. Principal component analysis (i.e. PCA using SPSS version 18.0) and confirmatory factor analysis (i.e. CFA using AMOS version 18.0) of the constructs; Islamic spirituality (IS), Islamic social responsibility (ISR) and Organizational citizenship behaviour from Islamic perspective (OCBIP), were conducted. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), good fit indices led to two major findings, thus, ISR influences employees’ OCBIP performance; IS does not. Several implications from the study were discussed. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysian 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9102/1/V31_1_4.pdf Naail Mohammed Kamil, and Mohamed Sulaiman, and Sugumaran Selladurai, and Nadhira Khalid, (2015) The impact of spirituality and social responsibility on organizational citizenship behaviour from the Islamic perspective: empirical investigation of Malaysian businesses. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 31 (1). pp. 59-80. ISSN 0128-1496 http://www.ukm.my/jkom/journal/volumes/volume31-1-2015.html
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description The phenomenon of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) emanating from the Western value system has received enormous attention from researchers, however, the model of organizational citizenship behavior from other cross cultural or religious perspectives such as the Islamic perspective, has not been much explored. This empirical study attempts to enrich the understanding of OCB from Islamic management perspective. In view of this, Western OCB framework was studied and further enriched in light of the Islamic heritage (Qur’an and Sunnah, i.e. that Prophetic tradition of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him) and established the need for Taqwa serving as antecedent of citizenship behaviors from the Islamic perspective. The survey data used for this empirical research was drawn from 405 Muslim employees in business organizations in Malaysia. Principal component analysis (i.e. PCA using SPSS version 18.0) and confirmatory factor analysis (i.e. CFA using AMOS version 18.0) of the constructs; Islamic spirituality (IS), Islamic social responsibility (ISR) and Organizational citizenship behaviour from Islamic perspective (OCBIP), were conducted. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), good fit indices led to two major findings, thus, ISR influences employees’ OCBIP performance; IS does not. Several implications from the study were discussed.
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author Naail Mohammed Kamil,
Mohamed Sulaiman,
Sugumaran Selladurai,
Nadhira Khalid,
spellingShingle Naail Mohammed Kamil,
Mohamed Sulaiman,
Sugumaran Selladurai,
Nadhira Khalid,
The impact of spirituality and social responsibility on organizational citizenship behaviour from the Islamic perspective: empirical investigation of Malaysian businesses
author_facet Naail Mohammed Kamil,
Mohamed Sulaiman,
Sugumaran Selladurai,
Nadhira Khalid,
author_sort Naail Mohammed Kamil,
title The impact of spirituality and social responsibility on organizational citizenship behaviour from the Islamic perspective: empirical investigation of Malaysian businesses
title_short The impact of spirituality and social responsibility on organizational citizenship behaviour from the Islamic perspective: empirical investigation of Malaysian businesses
title_full The impact of spirituality and social responsibility on organizational citizenship behaviour from the Islamic perspective: empirical investigation of Malaysian businesses
title_fullStr The impact of spirituality and social responsibility on organizational citizenship behaviour from the Islamic perspective: empirical investigation of Malaysian businesses
title_full_unstemmed The impact of spirituality and social responsibility on organizational citizenship behaviour from the Islamic perspective: empirical investigation of Malaysian businesses
title_sort impact of spirituality and social responsibility on organizational citizenship behaviour from the islamic perspective: empirical investigation of malaysian businesses
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysian
publishDate 2015
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9102/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9102/
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