دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی تشخیص هوش معنوی اسلامی برای پایداری سازمانی - امرالد 2018

Introduction

The last two decades has seen an upsurge in the employee unethical practices in global organisations leading to the collapse of these organisations (Pearce et al., 2013; Schwartz, 2013; Stevens & Rago, 2013). Media and news reports have highlighted numerous cases of employee ethical misconduct such as dishonesty, bribery, and cheating (Chapman & Lindner, 2016; Schwartz et al., 2005) that have undermined organisational sustainability. This high level of ethical misconduct questions the efficacy of existing ethical programs. It emphasises the importance of organisational sustainability and its social and economic impact on organisations (Lange et al., 2012; Pearce et al., 2013; Soltani, 2014). Since the last decade, organisational sustainability has emerged as a discipline, and debate on its indicators and measures has attracted the attention of researchers (Özlem & Besler, 2014). Globally, a significant number of big companies such as Enron Corporation, WorldCom, Arthur & Anderson collapsed mainly due to the lack of ethical practices among their employees (Chernov & Sornette, 2016; Stevens, 2013). These organisations suffered from low efficiency, revenue losses and bankruptcy (Arshad, 2017; Nielsen, 2010). Thus, it can be argued that the ethical lapse of a single employee may result in financial and moral damage to the entire organisation though most of the large organisations have formal codes of ethics (Weber & Wasieleski, 2013). Moreover, they also offer ethical training to their employees. Nevertheless, these programs have proven largely ineffective with unethical employee practices remaining prevalent in the organisations. This is a serious concern for organisational sustainability. In addition, employees are spiritually weak and require spiritual training to increase their awareness concerning right and wrong actions.

Conclusion

This conceptual paper deliberates the unavoidable role of Islamic spiritual intelligence for organisational sustainability as employees are considered the most valuable asset to their organisation (Mahmood et al., 2015). This resource is under threat as employees confront behavioural problems due to a lack of spirituality which can be detrimental to organisational sustainability. Therefore, appropriate training programs and activities performed by the organisation in line with the Islamic spiritual intelligence are predicted to be the best solution to the said phenomenon. The paper proposed that Islamic spiritual intelligence is intelligible with the individual’s internal strength of having a pure heart. A person with a pure heart has a strong aspiration to act in such a way that it will be beneficial for them and others (Rahman & Shah, 2015). The importance of the heart has been mentioned by Bukhari and Muslim as been stated by Prophet Mohammed (PBUH): Allah has created us, and we must express our utmost devotion to Him. This means that by having high spiritual intelligence, one could control his or her emotions well and later influence good thinking towards certain individuals, works and situations. Also, Islamic spiritual intelligence develops spiritual awareness in the employees that makes them more effective in the organisations. Thus, employee positive behaviour will have a great impact on organisations and can lead to organisational sustainability.