Islam is a comprehensive religion which covers every single aspect of human activity. Islam is not a religion that only focuses on the private life of individuals, but also covers and guides humans' interaction and activities in their daily lives. Despite the comprehensiveness of the Islamic teachings, limited studies have been conducted to examine the practice of Islam in the management of business processes in Muslim organizations. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the understanding of Muslim managers regarding Islamic management in their organization. The study utilizes a qualitative research design by means of in-depth interviews with the selected Muslim managers from the prominent Muslim organizations in Malaysia. The findings of this study indicate that Muslim managers in Malaysia have great understanding of Islamic management practices and they have implemented these practices in their organizations. However, there is a great opportunity for improvement in the future with regards to Islamic management practices. The implication of this study is also discussed.

Purpose Four main strategies required for firms to be able to achieve their main objectives in organizations under the unified theory of the firm are technological advance, intellectual development, spirituality conducts and customer satisfaction concern. This study aims to explore the inclination of firms to adopt all these strategies in, factors that contribute to the adoption of all these strategies and significant relationship between these strategies of firms in the context of Malaysian firms. Design/methodology/approach Using primary data from the survey on a sample of firms in the financial sector of Malaysia, the study adopts several methods of analysis such as t-test for dependent sample, t-test for independent sample and correlation. Furthermore, ordinary least squares regressions are estimated to determine factors that have an impact on a particular strategy. Findings It is found that the strategies of the unified theory of the firm significantly contributed to the education level of managers. Highly educated managers tend to adopt strategies most of the time. It is also found that scores of customer satisfaction concern are highly related to scores of intellectual development and spirituality conduct. The correlation coefficient is also high between spirituality conduct and intellectual development. Originality/value The study analyzes the adoption of important strategies of a unified theory of firm among several firms using first-hand data (primary data) collected from the survey.

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to explore on how the leadership of TV AlHijrah Malaysia, counter the economic crisis brought by Covid19 pandemic that they have succeeded in creating tv program like My QuranTime which led them to be awarded for ASEAN Inspiring Award Winner 2021 Innovation, Inspire, Creativity, the top ASEAN Award 2021. The interest of the paper is to understand how the transposition of spiritual leadership into Islamic leadership model could be explained practically. Methodology – The paper adopts qualitative research approach by employing interviews as the research instruments for the interest of the paper to go into in-depth understanding as well as to get the explanation on the leadership style of the leader of the organization Findings – The paper discovered that a new emerging element define as ulul albab has become the main contributor in explaining the transposition od spiritual leadership into Islamic leadership model element by explaining the elements of human capital aspects. Simultaneously, the findings have also able to explain the performance of the subject during such crisis in terms of the ability to transform the followers as well as organizational performances Implications – Potentially all Muslim leaders could improve their understanding of Islamic leadership from the lenses of spiritual leadership on taking the organization towards the desirable outcomes, covering the elements of organizational as well followers’ performance.Originality – The paper is believed to be with the original value as it only focuses on explaining the transposition of spiritual leadership into Islamic leadership model, by focusing on one specific organization, namely TV AlHijrah, that the emergence of ulul albab in explaining the human capital is seen as among the contribution.