The relationship between Islamic work ethics, Muslim religious beliefs and relationship management towards organizational commitment at one government organization in Kedah / Najihah Azimi Ahmad Najib

This study aimed to examine the significant relationship between Islamic work ethic, Muslim religious believe, relationship management and organizational commitment. A total of 85 staff at one government organization in Kedah was selected as respondents through convenience sampling technique. The conceptual framework of this study is Islamic work ethics, Muslim religious belief and relationship management as independent variables and organizational commitment as dependent variable. This study utilized the survey research design, quantitative method using survey questionnaire. Finding indicates that the respondents' perception on level of agreement of Islamic work ethics was high (M = 4.26, SD = 0.39) while the level of agreement for organizational commitment was also high (M = 3.96, SD = 0.43). In addition the respondents' perception on the level of frequency for Muslim religious beliefs was moderate (M = 3.58, SD = 1.00) and level of frequency for relationship management was high (M = 3.83, SD = 0.52). Result on correlation analysis indicate that organizational commitment was significant, moderately, and positively correlated with Islamic work ethics (r = .210; p < .05) and was significant, positively and strongly correlated with relationship management (r = .364; p <.01 ). However, for Muslim religious beliefs organizational commitment was significant, weak, and negatively correlated (r = -0.021; p <.05). This study also provides recommendation in the context of achieving organizational cornn1itment among employees at the organization.