Mahazan A. Mutalib

• Doctor of Philosophy (management)
• Professor (Associate) at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia

The aim of this study is to review how human resource management (HRM) practice influences laborproductivity in oil companies in Libya. This study brought the fact that due to the distinct features of oilcompanies, common discourses of MRM very often ruled out. In addition, this study focused that HRM isapplied at the micro level, which influences...

In rapidly changing environment, creativity is not only necessary for competitive advantage but is also contributing to organizational innovation, effectiveness, and survival. The study aims at uncovering the role of personal characteristics and intrinsic motivation on the creative performance of private university officers in Bangladesh. The prese...

In rapidly changing environment, creativity is not only necessary for competitive advantage but is also contributing to organizational innovation, effectiveness, and survival. The study aims at uncovering the role of personal characteristics and intrinsic motivation on the creative-performance of private university officers in Bangladesh. The prese...

Palm oil is one of the largest contributors to Malaysia's economy and accounts for 8.5% of global oil and fat production. Despite being a renowned palm oil producer, this sector is highly dependent on migrant workers. There are several issues beleaguering this sector, particularly labor, that disrupt their well-being. Among the common labor issues...

It is crucial to establish sustainable livelihoods and distribute wealth in order to ensure inclusion across rural and urban regions as well as between various ethnic groups. Microfinance, as one of the social finance instruments, could help the underprivileged gain access to capital. Islamic microfinance, unlike conventional microfinance, avoids r...

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of human resource management practices on job satisfaction among academics in a Malaysian higher education institution. Design/methodology/approach-A pilot study was carried out on a sample of 144 academics in a higher education institution. The respondents included a wide range of...

The term spirituality is often misinterpreted and seen as similar to religion, certain views, moral standards, and traditions. In its simplest form, spirituality is not structured or organised like religion in general. Spirituality derives from the Latin word ‘spiritus’, which means a vital breath. Spirit is an unseen power that breathes life into...

First, pertaining to the contextual nature of the literature, all of the literature that discusses leadership, whether it is about Islamic Leadership, Servant Leadership, or general leadership, discusses the idea of leadership free from any specific context. The context here refers to whether the literature is bounded exclusively by social, politic...

This book aims to analyse various spiritual leadership concepts, including spiritual leadership, Servant Leadership, managerial leadership, and other leadership concepts with the principles of leadership found in Islam or Islamic leadership. The idea for this book arose from three related arguments.

This section presents the overall understanding we gain from reading Islamic leadership literature. Based on the work of Noor (2002), Badawi and Beekun (1998), and Hisham Al-Talib (?), this book identified several baseline traits of Islamic leaders. As pointed out previously, the characteristics and traits of leadership identified in the Islamic le...

This chapter presents the definitions of several leadership concepts and terminologies frequently used in this book, namely Islamic leadership, spiritual leadership, managerial leadership, and Servant Leadership.

Nowadays, social media has an important role in all organisations and individuals, including leaders. An interesting term released by McKinsey Quarterly is “Organisational Social-Media Literacy”. This term refers to knowledge and skills in utilising social media to benefit organisations and companies.

In Islam, leadership is always closely related to responsibility. Responsibility (Masuliyah) is based on authority (shalahiyah) and rights decision-making (taqrir), which is mandated to a leader. All three are elements of leadership mandated independently to a leader. It is normal when a leader is tasked with achieving a goal according to capacity....

This chapter explains the main sources and higher purposes of the moral bases in the concept of Islamic leadership. These main sources and higher purposes of the moral bases of the Islamic leadership are explained by introducing their definitions, etymologies, chronologies, functions, and main references for further study. The three main sources re...

In addition to the Islamic understanding of faith and ethics, leadership in Islam is derived from the function of the human heart and soul. In Islam, leaders with the ability to educate and control their desires (nafs) will be able to answer the challenges of leadership. Understandably, leadership comes with lures and powers; thus, a person with hi...

Revolusi industri 4.0 yang menekankan ledakan maklumat serta teknologi digital adalah sebuah kesinambungan kepada revolusi-revolusi industri sebelumnya. Revolusi-revolusi industri yang berlaku menjanjikan landskap baru bagi kegiatan ekonomi, interaksi sosial dan corak gaya pemikiran masyarakat. Terdapat pelbagai kebaikan dan aspek positif yang dapa...

Purpose This research paper aims to determine the factors needed to propose a platform where waqf (Islamic endowment) organizations can collaborate with government public hospitals to develop corporate waqf hospitals. Consequently, the elements of governance and sustainability are included in the management of corporate waqf hospitals thereby leadi...

Leadership, according to Islamic views, is highly emphasized and the responsibility to preserve it is entrusted to every Muslim's individual. Based on this understanding, an Islamic leader should manage the governance wisely and safeguard the given trust by keeping himself from being trapped in transgression actions and always consistent to fulfil...

Many Muslim leaders, entrepreneurs, and managers in Malaysia successfully apply the Al-Quran and Sunnah to their business organizations. In an organization, Islam stresses the cooperation and sense of collectiveness among the employees, as in fact, the religion cannot be practiced in separation. The collective efforts of people in a work situation...

The study aims at uncovering the role of personal characteristics and intrinsic motivation on the creative-performance of private university officers in Bangladesh. In today's rapidly changing environment, creativity is not only necessary for competitive advantage but is also contributing to organizational innovation, effectiveness, and survival (A...

Persoalan kepemimpinan di menara gading bukanlah suatu perkara yang boleh dipandang ringan. Kepemimpinan universiti yang baik dapat merencanakan perjalanan program pendidikan tinggi yang berdaya saing dan penghasilan siswa-siswi yang dapat menyumbang secara positif kepada pembangunan negara. Pelbagai perbincangan ilmiah telah dizahirkan untuk menek...

The employment problem is a topic of concern to the whole society which is related not only to the future direction of employment of college students but also to the development and progress of the future society and the reform and development of higher vocational education. With the development of the current society and the continuous improvement...

Xi Jinping's new era of socialist economic thought, rooted in the great practice of China's economic construction, systematically explains the issue of China's economic development and reform, and clearly answers the important questions of how the economic situation is to be judged, how to judge the development stage, how to determine the developme...

Xi Jinping's new era of socialist economic thought, rooted in the great practice of China's economic construction, systematically explains the issue of China's economic development and reform, and clearly answers the important questions of how the economic situation is to be judged, how to judge the development stage, how to determine the developme...

The concept of the production-based economy has moved to the knowledge-based economy where knowledge becomes the new engine of corporate expansion. From the human resource point of view, human capital, being a vital element of intellectual capital, plays a significant role in the case of emerging performance of an organization in this knowledge-bas...

The concept of the production-based economy has moved to the knowledge-based economy where knowledge becomes the new engine of corporate expansion. From the human resource point of view, human capital, being a vital element of intellectual capital, plays a significant role in the case of emerging performance of an organization in this knowledge-bas...

Persoalan kepemimpinan di menara gading bukanlah suatu perkara yang boleh dipandang ringan. Kepemimpinan universiti yang baik dapat merencanakan perjalanan program pendidikan tinggi yang berdaya saing dan penghasilan siswa-siswi yang dapat menyumbang secara positif kepada pembangunan negara. Pelbagai perbincangan ilmiah telah dizahirkan untuk menek...

The objective of this paper is to determine the effective dimensions of intellectual capital. For fulfilling this objective, the study examined 88 empirical research on the intellectual capital of the past two decades (1998–2018) in the field of intellectual capital, its dimensions and practices in different sectors of different countries. Peer-rev...

The quality of public service is very much depending on the motivation level of public servants. Even though career motivation is one of the important aspects of the public service, only a few studies were conducted to cover this topic. Most studies on public servants were conducted to address public service motivation rather than career motivation...

Risalah Panduan Ibadat Islam

Manual of Islamic Worship (English)

Risalah panduan ibadat dalam bahasa Mandarin / manual of Islamic worship in Mandarin

This paper aims at exploring the impact of Islamic human resource (HR) practices on organizational performance though organizational commitment. Data were collected from randomly selected 170 branch managers of six Islamic Banks listed on Dhaka Stock Exchange of Bangladesh. After collecting data, descriptive analysis and structural equation model w...

Islam has gained a place in the hearts of non-Muslim communities. As a proof, statistics released by the Syarie Lawyers Association of Malaysia recorded an increase in the number of converts up to 76,663 people all over Malaysia in 2000 until 2009. There are various factors that motivated these people to Islam. For example, some are impressed with...

Converts is one of the group which obtained a portion of zakat after asnaf and poor groups and registed zakat collecters (amil). Systematic distribution of zakat can give justice to those who are eligible to receive zakat donations as converts. Majlis Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (MAIWP) as an institution that responsible for managing the zakat...

The difference of thinking leads to diversity of the use of the term for particular issue. There is a wide term used to the new convert to Islam as convert Muslim, new brothers and sisters, a brother Muslim, reverted Muslim and mualaf. However, the question arises regarding the most appropriate term to use for this group either in everyday conversa...

Conversion to Islam among the new converts in Malaysia increasing every year. This positive development should be given proper attention, especially in terms of welfare, social support and increase their understanding of Islam, with the intention that they have not turn them back to their religion of origin. Zakat institution is one of the institut...

The spread of Islam in Malaysia had a positive impact against the increasing number of converts. Before embracing Islam, someone should know the conversion procedures to prevent any problems arise after becoming a Muslim. Having converted to Islam, the development of a new convert was very important to ensure they are on the right path. Association...

The aim of this study is to determine the dimensions of transformational leadership that influence schools to achieve productivity growth and improve the performance of teaching as well as gaining access to new high-quality education. Although schools have been competing to gain high-quality education, empirical evidence shown that many educational...

While the number of women labor force in Malaysia is increasing, only a few of them make it to the top. For many reasons, some women turn down top position offer and some of them refuse to stay working. Commitment to the family, work-life conflict and lack of support from the family and the colleagues are among issues that caused women to have less...

Converts is categorised as those entitled to receive zakat in Islam. There are differences in the interpretation of the definition of converts who can influence the distribution of zakat management. The differences that may exist are either non-Muslims that Islam is also likely to be eligible to receive zakat or not. Thus, the objective of this art...

This article discusses the importance of comparative religion in the mualaf management module in Negeri Sembilan from the perspectives of both: Mad'u and Da'i. Comparative religion is a discipline of study which discusses comparatively the histories, beliefs, practices, ethics and many other religious aspects between two or more religions. In the I...

Based on the statistics released by the Syarie Lawyers Association of Malaysia in 2012 shows that an increase rate of muslim conversion is a total of 76, 663 people between 2002 until the year 2010, thus, it is proving good acceptance of Islam from the non-Muslims. Those who recently embraced Islam in ‘urf’ called convert and has the right in share...

Researches have highlighted significant cultural and religious contextual differences in leadership studies. This research aims to investigate variance of Islamic leadership behaviour orientation among women managers in Malaysia government-linked companies or GLCs. This research is a survey research and was conducted between 2013 and 2015. A set of...

This is a conceptual paper and the aim of this paper is to investigate the existing literature on the impact of Human Resource Accounting on organizational performance and to develop a framework that could be beneficial for the researchers, policy makers and investor's community. This paper uses a systematic review of literatures that focus on the...

Zakat (Islamic poor tax) is a mechanism for wealth distribution dedicated to the eight recipients (asnaf) as determined by Allah SWT. The distribution of zakat should be able to attain the objectives of the Syariah (Maqasid Syariah). All the schemes provided by the zakat institutions should be assessed in order to achieve the objectives of the Syar...

This study investigated the association of imams’ religiosity behavior, leadership behavior, motivation to lead, and mosque performance of both rural and urban mosques in three states of Peninsular Malaysia or Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, and Negeri Sembilan. 250 randomly selected mosques around the three states were visited in this...

The paradigm of production based economy has shifted to knowledge based economy and knowledge becomes the new engine of corporate expansion. From human resource point of view, Human capital, being a vital element of intellectual capital, plays a significant role in case of emerging performance of an organization in this knowledge-based economics. T...

New Muslims have to go through three different phases in the course of embracing Islam. The three phases are pre-conversion, conversion and post-conversion. The purpose of this paper is to seek understanding of what the new Muslims have to go through in embracing Islam. Focus groups and surveys were conducted to reveal the phenomena new Muslims enc...

The traditional lipidic parameters when present and clusters within reference range, often fails to predict the risk of acute coronary syndrome in young population in this region. Measurement of Apolipoprotein B (Apo B), a parameter of the lipoprotein-lipid profile, provides a method of quantifying the concentration of lipoproteins, rather than the...

This study investigates leadership of imams in Peninsular Malaysia based on two surveys conducted between 2009 and 2015. The focus is to identify the different roles played by elderly and younger imams by using two sets of leadership measures. The findings reveal that the elderly imams have limited roles over mosque leadership when measured by a co...

This study evaluated the links between HRM practices and Labour productivity comprehensively with the mediating role of social skills. The study focuses on the Libyan oil and gas companies that play an important role in Libya’s economic development. The data of this study were collected using the quantitative approach, whereby the questionnaire was...

Converts is categorised as those entitled to receive zakat in Islam. There are differences in the interpretation of the definition of converts who can influence the distribution of zakat management. The differences that may exist are either non-Muslims that Islam is also likely to be eligible to receive zakat or not. Thus, the objective of this art...

Graduate entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial graduates are two focal concerns of the Ministry of Education of Malaysia due to the increasing rate of unemployment in Malaysia. A study conducted by Centre of Student Entrepreneurship Development at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) and the Office of Alumni Management USIM is aimed at understanding...

The purpose of this research is to investigate separate themes of Islamic Leadership based on analyses conducted on selected literature of conventional and Islamic Leadership. The themes of Islamic Leadership were identified for the purpose of developing a specific inventory to measure Islamic Leadership or the Islamic Leadership Inventory (ILI). I...

The relationship between organizational performance and Human Resource Management has been a strongly argued topic through the decades. Throughout this paper, a closer look at the issues associated with HR practices and HR development in term of the academic institutes' enterprises. This paper also responds to the call of several HRM researchers wh...

Keywords Graduate Employability, Graduate Skills, Revealed Knowledge, Acquired Knowledge.

The purpose of this research is to reinvestigate the 19 themes and its

This research focused on the focal aim of analysing students’ perceptions in public universities in regards to the development of leadership values through their participation as the members of students’ representative council (JAKSA) in student’s accommodation.The current study implemented a qualitative methodology via semi-structrured focus group...

This article aims to discuss three major arguments. First, mosque performance could be measured at least by using two dimensions; number of regular jamaah (congregants) of the mosque and number of religious classes organized by the mosque. Second, the association of imams' leadership and mosque performance is centralized on the issue of how imams'...

This study investigated the process of how and when imams' leadership traits could influence their leadership behavior. In the moderated mediation analysis, this research hypothesized, two leadership traits of imams (i.e. motivation to lead or MTL and past leadership experiences) might mediate the influence of three leadership traits (general cogni...