The Influence of Islamic Values on Management Practice

ISBN-13: 9781137335111 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 225 str.

Gillian Forster

Opis

The Influence of Islamic Values on Management Practice is a cultural study which examines how Islamic values influence management practice.

In contrast with current academic thinking on the role of Islam in management, this book reveals that in this part of the Arab World, where there is a pull away from tradition towards modernity, there is a shared perspective from those 'doing management' that Islamic values do not, and should not, have any greater institutional influence on management practice than, for example, Christianity might have in a (secular) Christian country. But what emerges with equal clarity is that Islamic values influence management practice through each individual's own religiosity. The influence can therefore be conscious and deliberate, or unconscious and osmotic, formative or marginal, depending on the individual's own beliefs.
Using Morocco as a case study, and through academic research and actual business managers working in this context, this text explores and explains how national characteristics, including Islam, shape management practice.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Morocco As A Social And Cultural Context For Management Practice 3. Islamic Values 4. A Profile Of Management – Morocco In The Broader Pan-Arab Context 5. Management Practice in Morocco 6. Lifting the Veil 7. A New Synthesis for Management Practice in Morocco 8. Conclusions And Contribution To Knowledge

O autorze

Gillian Forster is the Programme Director of the Organisation and Human Resource Management and Development programmes and lecturer of Organisation, Management Development and People Management Modules at Northumbria University, UK. She joined NBS in 1993 following a number of years working in a variety of roles in the design profession, including training and development, corporate sponsorship and public relations. Gillian's main research interests are in the field of organisation studies, in particular organisation culture and international/cross-cultural management together with pedagogical developments relating to international students.