The corporate world today is highly competitive and in order for organizations to
survive and remain competitive, they must constantly evolve through change.
However, the majority of organizational changes neither result in successful
implementation or foster sustained change. It is suggested that the success of
changes are highly contingent on employees’ responses towards them. To this
end, Islamic Work Ethic (IWE) has become a subject of growing interest amongst
academia and human resource literature attempting to understand and predict
employees’ responses towards organizational change, particularly in Muslim
societies. Despite this, studies attempting to uncover IWE’s influence on
characteristics of employees’ responses towards change have revealed varying
outcomes. Thus, the nature of the relationship remains ambiguous. To tackle this
gap, this study contributes to knowledge by developing a conceptual model that
assists in identifying the influence of IWE on employees’ responses towards
change in the shape of their commitment to change and organizational deviance
behaviors. The testing of these relationships was carried out in the ever changing
and developing Islamic banking industry within the Middle Eastern context of
Kuwait. Through a quantitative case-study approach, data was collected from 398
branch-level employees via questionnaires. The outcomes revealed that the extent
of IWE’s influence on employee commitment to change varied greatly across
different components (affective, normative and continuance). On the other hand,
IWE was found to negatively influence employee engagement in organizational deviance towards change. Due to such findings, several theoretical implications, practical recommendations and future research directions are put forward.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/19435 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Al-Shamali, Ahmed |
| Contributors | Irani, Zahir, Weerakkody, Vishanth J.P. |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Faculty of Management and Law |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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