Islam: The Importance Of Work Ethics In Islam

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1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Ethics mean the standards of right and wrong that being set by the society about what humans should do and should not do. It is also usually in term of rights, fairness, obligations, benefits to society or for some specific reasons. In simple words, ethics is rules of behaviour that belief what is morally good and bad. On the other hand, work ethics can be defined as a view of work that has moral advantage and it is really essential in order to strengthen the character of a person. Besides that, work ethic also be defined as an ethical responsibility of individual based on job (Salajeghe & Farrokhiyan, 2015). Some example of work ethics are being responsible, honest, having good attitude and respect to each other. Next is the definition of Islamic Work Ethics (IWE). Islamic Work Ethics means the principle and teaching of Islam about how one’s should behave at his work place (Mohamed, Karim & Hussein, 2014). Actually, Muslim’s key to success and work ethic concept are all inside Qur’an and Sunnah. By practicing all the guidance in Qur’an and Sunnah, Muslims are actually can achieve a high level of ethical and economic compare to the non-Muslim (Ahmad & Owoyemi, 2012). Besides that, the definition of job stress according to Salajeghe and Farrokhiyan (2015), is the workplace stress that arise when there is higher …show more content…

According to Ajmal and Irfan (2014), the presence of Islamic Work Ethics in job stress situation has good impact to job satisfaction. Islamic Work Ethics has positively moderate the relation between job stress and job satisfaction. This is due to Islam is highly focus and pay attention on patience, tolerance and brotherhood. When we talk about patience, in Qur’an Surah Hud verse 115 has conveyed such meaningful “promise” from Allah

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