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Islamic spirituality and social responsibility in curtailing the workplace deviance

Omar Khalid Bhatti (Department of Economics and Management Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Management Sciences, Iqra University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Muhammad Aftab Alam (Management Sciences, Iqra University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Arif Hassan (Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Mohamed Sulaiman (Faculty of Graduate School of Management, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Humanomics

ISSN: 0828-8666

Article publication date: 14 November 2016

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Abstract

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.

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Citation

Bhatti, O.K., Alam, M.A., Hassan, A. and Sulaiman, M. (2016), "Islamic spirituality and social responsibility in curtailing the workplace deviance", Humanomics, Vol. 32 No. 4, pp. 405-417. https://doi.org/10.1108/H-03-2016-0022

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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