Leadership from the Qur’an relationship between taqwa, trust and business leadership effectiveness

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dc.contributor.authorMukred Mohsen, Nayal Rashed
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-14T01:35:19Z
dc.date.available2014-11-14T01:35:19Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.descriptionPhDen_US
dc.description.abstractDespite decades of ongoing inquiry and increasing interest, research on leadership has ignored religious elements, especially from the Qur’an, as a source of knowledge. The first aim of the study was to reveal leadership concepts in the Qur’an. 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. Spirituality consists of three dimensions namely Iman (Belief), Ibadat (Rituals) and Tawbah (Repentance). Responsibility consists of six dimensions namely Emotional Control, Sadakah, Forgiveness, Integrity, Patience and Justice. This study examined the effects of leader’s spirituality and responsibility together with the mediating influence of Trust on Business Leadership Effectiveness. A cross-sectional field study was carried out in the Republic of Yemen specifically in Sana’a and Taiz. Taqwa was a self-constructed measurement while Trust and Leadership Effectiveness were constructed from existing scales in the literature. As a result of factor and reliability analysis, four of the six dimensions of Responsibility merged, that is, Patience with Emotional Control and Justice with Integrity. Multiple regression and hierarchal regression techniques using SPSS version 12 were used to test seven main hypotheses utilizing sample of 206 companies. The results show that leaders’ level of Taqwa influences the leader’s effectiveness, where one dimension of Spirituality, that is Belief, and three dimensions of Responsibility, namely Sadakah, Integrity and Emotional Control were found to predicate Business Leadership Effectiveness, whereas Trust was found to positively influence Leadership Effectiveness. Besides, Trust was found to fully mediate the relationship between Iman and Leadership Effectiveness. On the other hand, Trust was found to partially mediate the relationship between Responsibility and Leadership Effectiveness. Practical implications include designing training programs to improve the spirituality of leaders and to inculcate Taqwa within the organizational culture.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/448
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectHumanitiesen_US
dc.subjectLeadershipen_US
dc.subjectQur’an relationshipen_US
dc.subjectleadership effectivenessen_US
dc.titleLeadership from the Qur’an relationship between taqwa, trust and business leadership effectivenessen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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