Islamic Work Ethics and Workplace Deviance

Abstract

The main purpose of the study is to explore Islamic work ethics and workplace deviance. For this study researcher site the articles that were published in the period of 1970 to 2022. Most of the researcher’s explored ethics more focused on Protestant work ethics (PWE) which was first time introduced in Germany. Organizations that don't have a solid spotlight on conforming to business rules and laws are bound to have WPD social inclinations identified with maltreatment of the resources of organizations. This study explores Islamic thoughts to find out different workplace ethics (WPE). Because, literature shows that people that belong to different religions are working in one place, due to creating lots of problems like conflicts, discrimination, nepotism, deviance, biases, and favoritism. In all workplaces, deviance (WPD) behavior was observed more than other challenges. So, in this study researcher try to examine the relationship between Islamic work ethics and workplace deviance. The examination suggested that significant negative connections were found between the IWE and WPD in the scarce extant literature. It shows that Islamic ethics is more powerful in diminishing the behaviors of deviance. W-E programs in organizations result in encouraging positive outcomes such as increased happiness, serenity, job satisfaction, and commitment. Findings are showing all those factors that help, support, and discourage the employees in the workplace, second how IWE support them, and how they behave in front of situations when WPD is experienced by the organization.

This study is a torchlight to those organizations that encourage ethical work environments and observe an increase in the overall commitment, productivity, adaptability, and innovation of their employees. Findings is showing failed to fulfill the needs of the business world PWE, Buddhist work ethic, and Hindu work ethic, the researcher started to explore the second-largest religion in the world Islam that fulfills the needs. It is expressed that the workers that practice the values of Islam have a higher feeling of equity in correlation with the individuals who don't. Unfairness, abusive supervisors, victimize employees from the organization, and injustice in the workplace reciprocated to the misbehaving or negative attitude of the employees. Hence, it is more appropriate for Islamic work ethics (IWE) to deal with all challenges. In normal circumstances in the workplace, IWE is negatively related to WPD. To conclude, the study seconds the proposition (P₁) that IWE has a negative connection with WPD.

Keywords: Workplace Deviance, Islamic Work Ethics, Ethics