A study on determinant of knowledge among islamic banking employees toward Islamic banking products / Muhammad Dehya Nadzri

This research has concentrated on the determinant of knowledge among the Islamic bankers towards the Islamic banking products. It is planned to identify the main factor that influence the knowledge of Islamic bankers which include the understanding of underlying principles, religiosity factors, perceptions towards the Islamic banking and training gained by the worker in the workplace. This research is to examine the relationships between the knowledge of Islamic bankers with all those factors to know its significant relationship. A proposed theoretical framework has been developed in this study. The hypothesis between the relationships of all factors with the knowledge are tested using survey by distributing to 120 employees which are worked in the Islamic banks and all of them will be choose for this research. The result shows that a positive relationship between the understanding of underlying principles and training gained by employees in the Islamic banks with the knowledge. Besides that, the perception and religiosity have not given too much influenced towards the knowledge. The results fro his examination are helpful to both industry and academics by giving pertinent exploratory information about the learning. The results also must be able to recommend some way on enhancing the knowledge among the Islamic banking employees. The issue of the accessibility of well-trained and skilled employees must be talked fundamentally by the business players, government and also academician keeping in mind the end goal to get supportable development and to acknowledge Malaysia as Asia Islamic financial hub.