Servant leadership from the Muslim perspective

• Main Authors: Ahmad , Khaliq, Abdul Kadir, Mohd Ali Bahari
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malaysian Institute of Management 2012
• Subjects: HF5549 Personnel management
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/34858/2/Servant_Leadership_from_the_Muslim.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/34858/; http://www.mim.org.my/pdf/mmr/MMRJan-Dec12.pdf

This paper has been prepared to discuss contemporary issues in leadership, and also serves as a means of reviewing the literature in the area of Servant Leadership. Islamic leadership principles and a spiritual dimension in leadership are touched upon. The main purpose of this paper is to better understand the aforesaid leadership terms through empirical data, since most Islamic leadership theories are hardly supported by on the ground facts and realities. This paper also modestly compares the three leadership principles from existing literature and, in the end, tests the practical issues that came into the sight of the authors from the survey results. The authors hope that this paper, to a certain extent, will be able to explore previous pioneering work that has been conducted in the field of leadership. We hope that this piece of research will stimulate specific interest in the areas of servant leadership and Islamic leadership in Muslim-minority countries in other parts of the world.