Attitudes of Current Managers towards Hadiths on Management and Managers

Abstract

The objective of this study is to observe the perception of Islam concerning the concept of management by revealing characteristics, the content of concepts of management and manager in fundamental Hadith resources and the relationship with other concepts and to observe the attitudes of current managers toward this perception. The study was finalized with a survey research carried out with 603 participants, being managers of public enterprises and non-governmental organization. It is observed that the expressions established according to Hadith contents studied as a result of analysis conducted show parallelism with contemporary ideal management principles. In this respect, managers show positive approach to the messages given in general. According to the results of survey research, meaningful attitude differences were detected in terms of features of managers, management applications and opinions about the behaviours of subordinates among public, enterprise and non-governmental organization managers.