Virtue-based leadership and organizational commitment: a study from Al-Ghazali’s perspective

IF 1.7 Q2 ECONOMICS

International Journal of Ethics and Systems Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI:10.1108/ijoes-03-2024-0081

Taylan Budur

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Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to investigate the impact of leader’s religiosity on teachers’ organizational commitment and leaders’ virtuous behaviors. Second, it is intended to examine the significant influence of Al-Ghazali’s fundamental virtues – wisdom, justice, temperance and courage – on the level of commitment displayed by teachers in K12 schools.

Design/methodology/approach

To analyze this connection, a total of 335 surveys were collected from K12 private schools situated in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The data were then evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling.

Findings

It has been found that leaders’ virtuous behaviors have significant positive effects on teachers’ commitment. Furthermore, while religiosity did not directly influence teachers’ commitment, the virtuous behaviors of leaders played a significant mediating role in this relationship.

Originality/value

This research fills a gap in the literature by exploring the impact of Islamic ethical principles on employee commitment, specifically within the context of K12 education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It emphasizes the critical role of leaders’ virtuous behaviors in improving employee commitment.

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以德为本的领导力与组织承诺：从阿尔-加扎利的视角开展的研究

目的本研究旨在探讨领导者的宗教信仰对教师组织承诺和领导者美德行为的影响。其次，研究阿尔-加扎利的基本美德--智慧、正义、节制和勇气--对 K12 学校教师所表现出的承诺水平的重要影响。为了分析这种联系，研究人员从伊拉克库尔德斯坦地区的 K12 私立学校共收集了 335 份调查问卷。结果发现，领导者的美德行为对教师的承诺有显著的积极影响。此外，虽然宗教信仰并不直接影响教师的承诺，但领导者的道德行为在这种关系中起到了重要的中介作用。原创性/价值本研究填补了文献空白，探讨了伊斯兰道德原则对员工承诺的影响，特别是在伊拉克库尔德斯坦地区 K12 教育的背景下。它强调了领导者的良性行为在提高员工承诺方面的关键作用。

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International Journal of Ethics and Systems ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

4.40

自引率

11.10%

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Ethics and Systems (formerly named Humanomics, the International Journal of Systems and Ethics) is a multidisciplinary journal publishing peer review research on issues of ethics and morality affecting socio-scientific systems in epistemological perspectives. The journal covers diverse areas of a socio-scientific nature. The focus is on disseminating the theory and practice of morality and ethics as a system-oriented study defined by inter-causality between critical variables of given problems.