Islam-based spiritual orientations and quality of work life among Muslims
Individuals’ beliefs, as well as their spiritual orientations (SOs), can affect the quality of their work life cycle. Given that a large portion of people’s lives are spent in organisations, it is crucial to consider the factors affecting quality of work life (QWL) among employees. Against this back...
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| author | Sulieman Ibraheem Shelash Al-Hawary Satya Subrahmanyam Iskandar Muda Tribhuwan Kumar Andrés Alexis Ramírez-Coronel Ammar Abdel Amir Al-Salami |
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| description | Individuals’ beliefs, as well as their spiritual orientations (SOs), can affect the quality of their work life cycle. Given that a large portion of people’s lives are spent in organisations, it is crucial to consider the factors affecting quality of work life (QWL) among employees. Against this background, the present study investigated the effects of the Islam-based SOs on the QWL in Muslim employees working for Iraqi municipalities in 2022. For this purpose, an applied research design was adopted, using field studies of the correlational type for data collection. In total, 1345 staff of Iraqi municipalities were selected by simple random sampling in 2022, and two standardised questionnaires were utilised to collect the data. The content validity method was further recruited to determine the validity of the questionnaires, and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was used to measure the reliability. To analyse the data, descriptive tests, including frequency, mean and standard deviation (SD), along with inferential statistics, namely one-sample t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and independent-samples t-test, were implemented using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software package. The correlation coefficients accordingly showed a rising trend in the QWL among these employees following the growth in their SOs. Moreover, there was a significant relationship between the components of SOs, namely spiritual beliefs, sense of spirituality, spiritual self-actualisation and spiritual practices, and the QWL of the Muslim employees.
Contribution: This study revealed that the increase in the Islam-based SOs and its components led to an increase in the QWL of Iraqi Muslim employees. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4b2c7e6ae5d3445da54834bfef6806262023-03-02T11:47:33ZafrAOSISHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies0259-94222072-80502023-02-01791e1e610.4102/hts.v79i1.81945626Islam-based spiritual orientations and quality of work life among MuslimsSulieman Ibraheem Shelash Al-Hawary0Satya Subrahmanyam1Iskandar Muda2Tribhuwan Kumar3Andrés Alexis Ramírez-Coronel4Ammar Abdel Amir Al-Salami5Department of Business Administration, Al al-Bayt University, MafraqDepartment of Business, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, KaslikFaculty of Economic and Business, Universitas Sumatera Utara, MedanDepartment of English Language and Literature, College of Science and Humanities, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, SulailAzogues Campus Nursing Career, Health and Behavior Research Group (HBR), Psychometry and Ethology Laboratory, Catholic University of Cuenca; and Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research Group, CES University, ColombiaDepartment of Qur’anic Studies, College of Islamic Science, The Islamic University, NajafIndividuals’ beliefs, as well as their spiritual orientations (SOs), can affect the quality of their work life cycle. Given that a large portion of people’s lives are spent in organisations, it is crucial to consider the factors affecting quality of work life (QWL) among employees. Against this background, the present study investigated the effects of the Islam-based SOs on the QWL in Muslim employees working for Iraqi municipalities in 2022. For this purpose, an applied research design was adopted, using field studies of the correlational type for data collection. In total, 1345 staff of Iraqi municipalities were selected by simple random sampling in 2022, and two standardised questionnaires were utilised to collect the data. The content validity method was further recruited to determine the validity of the questionnaires, and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was used to measure the reliability. To analyse the data, descriptive tests, including frequency, mean and standard deviation (SD), along with inferential statistics, namely one-sample t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and independent-samples t-test, were implemented using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software package. The correlation coefficients accordingly showed a rising trend in the QWL among these employees following the growth in their SOs. Moreover, there was a significant relationship between the components of SOs, namely spiritual beliefs, sense of spirituality, spiritual self-actualisation and spiritual practices, and the QWL of the Muslim employees. Contribution: This study revealed that the increase in the Islam-based SOs and its components led to an increase in the QWL of Iraqi Muslim employees.https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/8194spiritual orientationsislamspiritual practicesquality of work lifemunicipality employees. |
| spellingShingle | Sulieman Ibraheem Shelash Al-Hawary Satya Subrahmanyam Iskandar Muda Tribhuwan Kumar Andrés Alexis Ramírez-Coronel Ammar Abdel Amir Al-Salami Islam-based spiritual orientations and quality of work life among Muslims HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies spiritual orientations islam spiritual practices quality of work life municipality employees. |
| title | Islam-based spiritual orientations and quality of work life among Muslims |
| title_full | Islam-based spiritual orientations and quality of work life among Muslims |
| title_fullStr | Islam-based spiritual orientations and quality of work life among Muslims |
| title_full_unstemmed | Islam-based spiritual orientations and quality of work life among Muslims |
| title_short | Islam-based spiritual orientations and quality of work life among Muslims |
| title_sort | islam based spiritual orientations and quality of work life among muslims |
| topic | spiritual orientations islam spiritual practices quality of work life municipality employees. |
| url | https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/8194 |
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