Mohamed Sulaiman

Examination of the relationship between organisational learning and firm's product innovation

Stemming from the growing interest in the learning process in the organisational context, the present article is aimed primarily at investigating the relationship between organisational learning and innovation. A theoretical model describing the hypothetical relationships between organisational learning and innovation was developed and tested using the structural equation modelling technique. Data was collected from a sample of 420 firms listed in the national directory of ICT organisations. From these, 250 usable questionnaires were completed and returned. Results of the study indicate a positive influence of organisational learning on product innovation. From the findings, the study also discusses several practical implications for practitioners.

Islamic spirituality and social responsibility in curtailing the workplace deviance

Purpose The current study aims to examine the relationship between Islamic spirituality (IS), Islamic social responsibility (ISR) and workplace deviance (WD). Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 400 Muslim employees of 9 business groups in Pakistan from manufacturing and services industry. The structure equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses, and the proposed model was assessed through renowned model fit indices. Findings The findings revealed that IS and ISR help curtail WD. The study also provides empirical support to the hypotheses that employees with high levels of IS and social responsibility will tend to avoid deviant behavior at workplace. Originality/value This study proposed IS and ISR as two possible stimuli that can help reduce employee deviant behavior at workplace. The findings of the present study revealed that IS, as well as ISR, is inversely related to WD. The present results augmented the existing body of knowledge regarding workplace spirituality in the field of organization behavior and further enriched the WD theory by offering new empirical relationships from an Islamic perspective.

The Conceptual Framework of Responsibility and Leaders Success from an Islamic Perspective

The present research aims at empirically revealing the leadership concepts from the holy Qur?an. Among plenty research on leadership only few account the religious views of leadership in particular from the Moslems? source of knowledge, the Holy Qur?an. The concept of Taqwa, as a characteristic of Motaqeen according to the Qur?an, has been included of Spirituality and Responsibility dimensions. This research studies the relationship between responsibility and leader?s effectiveness. A cross-sectional approach was conducted in which responsibility was measured based on a self-constructed basis when leadership effectiveness was built up from the current scales in the literature. Analytical techniques including multiple regression and hierarchal regression by using SPSS were used to examine the hypotheses drawn from a sample of 135 companies. The results represent except forgiveness other dimensions of responsibility are significant and positively associated to leadership success.