The effect of Islamic leadership and Islamic work ethics on the Islamic performance of employees with the mediating role of Islamic organizational culture

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Abbas Ghaedamini Harouni ¹ , Mehrdad Sadeghi de cheshmeh ² , Ali Morad Khosravi ³ , Ghulam Reza Maleki Farsani ⁴

1 - PhD in Cultural Management, , lecturer at the Comprehensive University of Applied Sciences of Farsan Center
2 - Assistant Professor of Facuty Management Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran Islamic Azad University, Tehran ,Iran
3 - PhD in Private law, , lecturer at the Comprehensive University of Applied Sciences of Farsan Center
4 - PhD in Cultural Management, , lecturer at the Comprehensive University of Applied Sciences of Farsan Center

Received: 2022-04-23 Accepted : 2022-08-10 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: Islamic work ethics, Islamic leadership, Islamic performance of employees, Islamic organizational culture,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study is to determine the effect of Islamic leadership and Islamic work ethics on the Islamic performance of employees with the mediating role of Islamic organizational culture. The current research is applied in terms of purpose description, and  correlational data collection. The statistical population of the present study was consisted of all the employees working in (case of study: Islamic Azad University, Isfahan branch (Khorasgan)) including  660 employees. With the help of   Cochran sampling formula, the number of 244 employees through the stratified sampling method  with proportional to the volume were selected. The research tools were the standard Islamic leadership questionnaire by Fabriani et al. (2018 ) ,  the  standard Islamic work ethics questionnaire by Ali and Al-Kazemi (2007), the standard Islamic organizational culture questionnaire by Fazlur Rahman and Fawad (2022), and finally  standard Islamic performance questionnaire by Marsudi et al. 2019) The validity of the questionnaires was examined based on content, form and construct validity. After adding the necessary terms, the validity was confirmed and  the reliability of the questionnaires calculated as 0.90, 0.90, 0.92 and 0.92 and data analysis was done at an inferential level including structural equation modeling. The results of the research showed that Islamic leadership, Islamic work ethics and Islamic organizational culture have a positive and significant effect on the performance of employees. On the other hand, Islamic leadership with the mediation of Islamic organizational culture had a significant effect on the performance of employees. 

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