Principles and Fundamentals of Islamic Management

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The traditional approach to business and public management assumes that management decisions and outcomes will remain the same,irrespective of the environment in which they are applied. However, the value systems operating within a society can also influence the principles that govern modern management within organizations. Principles and Fundamentals of Islamic Management examines the concept of business and public management from the viewpoint of Islam, with close reference to the Quran and other illuminating Islamic sources. Seyed Mohammad Moghimi provides key insights from an Islamic perspective across a comprehensive range of management topics, including planning, decision making and policy making, organizing, human resources management, directing and organizational control. The book concludes by analyzing the role of a company director within an Islamic context. Through this in-depth exploration of Islamic management principles and fundamentals, the author creates a modern and practical framework suitable for use by international business managers. Providing a much-needed insight into the practicalities of management operations in an Islamic context, this book is essential reading for researchers, managers, and for students of Islamic management at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Cover PRINCIPLES AND FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAMIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAMIC MANAGEMENT Copyright Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables About the Author Preface SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION OF ISLAMIC MANAGEMENT 1. The Concept of Organization and Management from the Islam Point of View Behavioral Objectives At the end of this chapter, readers will be able to: 1.1 What Is Organization? 1.1.1 Existential Philosophy of Organization From the Islam Viewpoint 1.1.2 The Nature of Organization From Islam Viewpoint 1.1.3 The Organization as an Instrument for Realizing a Goodly Life 1.2 Typology of Organizations According to Islam 1.3 The Elements of Organization According to Islam 1.4 Organization purposes and policies in Islam 1.4.1 The Nearness to The Divinity 1.4.2 Justice 1.5 Management from Islamic perspective 1.5.1 Definitions of Islamic Management 1.5.2 The Importance and Necessity of Management in Islamic Verses and Narratives 1.5.3 Leaders and Managers’ Characteristics According to Islam 1.5.3.1 Managers’ Features and Characteristics in the Quran 1.5.3.2 The Managers’ Features and Characteristic from Innocents’ Point of View 2. The Process of Islamic Management Formation and Its Approaches Behavioral Purposes At the end of this chapter, readers will be able to: 2.1 The Process of Islamic Management Formation 2.1.1 The Nature of Islamic Management as a Useful Science 2.1.2 Explaining the Nature of Religion 2.1.3 The Inclusion Realm of Islamic Management 2.1.4 Methodology of Islamic Management 2.1.4.1 Divine revelation method 2.1.4.2 Method of intuition 2.1.4.3 Method of traditions and Islamic narration 2.1.4.4 Method of intellectual 2.1.4.5 Experimental or sensual method 2.2 Approaches to Islamic Management 2.3 Schools and Theoreticians of Islamic Management 2.3.1 Early Scholars on Islamic Management 2.3.2 Contemporary Scholars of Islamic Management SECTION 2: MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS IN ISLAMIC MANAGEMENT 3. Principles of Planning in Islamic Management Behavioral Objectives At the end of this chapter, readers will be able to: 3.1 Importance and Necessity of Planning in Islam 3.2 Principles of Planning in Islam 3.2.1 Principle of Adherence 3.2.2 Principle of Clarity and Transparency 3.2.3 Principle of Facility 3.2.4 Principle of Flexibility 3.2.5 Principle of Prediction 3.2.6 Principle of Providence 3.2.7 Principle of Congruence 3.2.8 Principle of Moderation 3.2.9 Principle of Insight 3.2.10 Principle of Justice Expansion 3.2.11 Principle of Opportunity Inclination and Threat Erasing 3.2.12 Principle of Continuation 3.3 Planning Based on Resistant Economy 3.4 Definitions and Typology of Plans in Islamic Management 3.5 Governmental Decrees as Tactical Plans 3.6 Time Management 3.7 Planning and Budgeting 4. Decision-making and Policy-making in Islamic Management Behavioral Objectives 4.1 Foundations of Policy-making and Decision-making from Islam's Point of View 4.2 Decision-making Based on Expediency 4.2.1 Semantics and Regulations for Expediency Discernment 4.2.2 Expediency in the Quran 4.2.3 Jurisprudential Rules Regarding Decision-making Based on Expediency 4.2.4 Principle of Public Beneficence Precedence 4.3 Decision-making Based on Consultation 4.4 Decision-making Based on Trust in God 5. Principles of Organizing in Islamic Management Behavioral Objectives 5.1 Concept of Organizing 5.2 Organizational Structure and Hierarchy of Management in Islam 5.2.1 Management Based on the Oneness of God 5.2.2 Management of the Prophetic 5.2.3 Alawite Management 5.2.4 Management Based on Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) 5.2.4.1 Authorities of the jurisdiction 5.2.4.2 Islamic jurisprudence sources 5.3 Laws and Regulations 5.3.1 The Nature of Rules and Regulations from the Viewpoint of Holy Quran 5.3.2 Typology of Rules in Islamic Management 5.4 Principle of Management Hierarchy 5.5 The Principle of Responsibility and Accountability 5.6 The Principle of Just Division of the Work 5.7 The Principle of Authority and Power 6. Human Resources Management in Islamic Management Behavioral Objectives 6.1 The Nature of Human Resources From the Viewpoint of Islam 6.1.1 Existential Aspects of Human Beings 6.1.2 Characteristics of Human Resources in the Quran 6.1.2.1 Positive characteristics of human resources 6.1.2.2 Negative characteristics of human resources 6.1.3 Efficient Human Sources 6.2 Job Description and Job Qualification 6.2.1 Importance of Job and Its Compatibility With the Doer 6.2.2 Job Qualification in Islam 6.2.3 Meritocracy 6.2.4 Gender and Job 6.3 Choosing, Appointment, and Dismissing 6.3.1 Choosing and Appointment 6.3.2 Succession 6.3.3 Displacement, Expulsion, and Dismissal 6.4 Organizational Socialization 6.5 Training and Development of Human Resources 6.5.1 Instruction through Allegory 6.5.2 Instruction through Telling Story 6.5.3 Instructions through Case Excavating Method 6.6 Performance Assessment 6.6.1 Assessment as the General Law of The Divinity 6.6.2 Precise Recording of the Performance 6.6.3 Assessment of Basic Performance for Assessing the Organizational Competence 6.6.4 Creating Testable Criteria in the Assessments 6.6.5 Revealing the Results of Assessment 6.6.6 Precedence of Positive Points Over Negative Ones in Performance Assessment 6.7 Reward Management 7. Directing in Islamic Management Behavioral Objectives 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Human Behaviors in an Organization 7.2.1 The Behavior of Piouses (Positive Organizational Behaviors) 7.2.2 Behaviors of the Indifferent Group (Neutral Organizational Behaviors) 7.2.3 The Behavior of the Hypocritical Group (Destructive Organizational Behaviors) 7.3 Motivation in Islam 7.4 Commitments in Hereafter-oriented Organizations 7.4.1 Communications in Islamic Management 7.4.2 Organizational Leadership 7.4.2.1 The importance of leadership in Islam 7.4.2.2 Approaches to leader–follower relations 7.4.2.2.1 First Viewpoint: The Viewpoint of Akhbaris (Special in Narration) 7.4.2.2.2 The Second Viewpoint: The Traditional Fundamentalists 7.4.2.2.3 Third viewpoint: fundamentalists who believe in the religious government 7.5 Islamic Ethics as the Essence of Organizational Culture 8. Organizational Control in Islamic Management Behavioral Objectives 8.1 Performance Management 8.1.1 Organizational Control Types 8.1.2 Organizational Control Strategies 8.1.2.1 Self-control strategy 8.1.2.2 Public control strategy 8.2 Principles of Control and Supervision in Hereafter-oriented Organizations 8.2.1 The Principle of Divine Supervision 8.2.2 The Principle of Simultaneous Reward and Punishment 8.2.3 Principle of Accepting Repentance and Forgiveness 8.2.4 The Principle of Proportionality 8.2.5 The Principle of Patience in Punishment 8.2.6 The Principle of Leniency in Punishment 8.2.7 The Principle of Public Interest and the Principle of Flexibility in the Implementation of Disciplinary Measures 8.2.8 The Principle of Synergizing the Control 8.2.9 The Principle of Purgation Through Goodness 8.2.10 The Principle of Eliminating Allegations 8.2.11 The Principle of Documentation in Supervision 8.2.12 The Principle of Decisiveness in Administrating Punishment 8.2.13 The Principle of Justice in Rewards 8.3 Organizational Discipline Strategies References Index