The Role of Religiosity in Ethical Decision-Making: A Study on Islam and the Malaysian Workplace

Sulaiman, Rahizah Binti; Toulson, Paul; Brougham, David; Lempp, Frieder; Haar, Jarrod

doi:10.1007/s10551-021-04836-x

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“…This implies that a successful religious practice complements the same output on healthy lifestyle behaviors. This aligns with the outputs by (Sulaiman, 2019) who found that religious education can be instrumental in improving adolescents' healthy lifestyle behaviors by developing reinforcing religious coping, developing respect for religious diversity, and promoting connectedness.…”

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Mediating Role of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors on the Relation between Religious Practice and Academic Achievement in University Students

Shiferaw

Naidoo

Berhanu

2023

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Background The issues of religiosity, healthy lifestyle behaviors and academic achievement are global agendas. Most previous research has focused on either one or two of the variables, not three of them (e.g. just the relationship between religiosity and healthy lifestyle behaviors). And addressing these three issues, by and large, demands a systemic approach to re-thinking the current level and improving it. Objective To examine the causal relationship between religiosity, healthy lifestyle behaviors, and academic achievement in the case of Debre Markos University (DMU) and Injibara University (IU), Ethiopia. Methods Four hundred forty students participated voluntarily using a simple random sampling technique. To attain this objective, a cross-sectional research method design was used. Results The mean scores of students’ religious practice and healthy lifestyle behaviors are more than average in all aspects. MANOVA results revealed that batch, ethnicity (region), and the university did not display a statistically significant difference among the composite (or combined) scores of both students’ healthy lifestyles and religiosity. However, religious affiliation and gender have an effect on religiosity and healthy lifestyle behaviors respectively. The correlation output informs that religiosity and healthy lifestyle behaviors are positively and significantly correlated with each other. Religious practice also significantly predicted students’ healthy lifestyle behaviors. Despite this, the academic achievement of students didn’t have any relationship with their religious practice and healthy lifestyle behaviors. Conclusion University students’ healthy lifestyle behavior doesn’t play an intervening variable in the effect of religious practice on academic achievement. Possible practical implications and recommendations have been forwarded.

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confidence: 82%

Mediating Role of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors on the Relation between Religious Practice and Academic Achievement in University Students

Shiferaw

Naidoo

Berhanu

2023

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“…The outcome is a context-specific version of CSR that differs from established CSR frameworks (e.g., Carroll, 1979;Crane et al, 2013), known for typically following profit-driven and instrumental reasons for CSR engagement (Hafenbrädl & Waeger, 2021;Lu et al, 2022;Yin & Jamali, 2021). Therefore, the study advances the literature on ethical decisionmaking (e.g., Ananthram & Chan, 2016;Kumar et al, 2022;Nakpodia et al, 2020), particularly concerning the influence of Islam (e.g., Alziyadat & Ahmed, 2019;Sulaiman et al, 2021); organisational CSR behaviour (e.g., Peifer, 2015;Ray et al, 2014), CSR outcomes (Aguinis & Glavas, 2012;Christensen et al, 2014;Jamali & Karam, 2018), and the role of Islam in this regard (Jamali et al, 2020;van Aaken & Buchner, 2020); as well as the emerging field of Islamic CSR (Koleva, 2021) by introducing impactful concepts such as a'jr and al'akhira that offer a better understanding of CSR from an Islamic point of view, as well as playing a substantial role in terms of motivations for CSR engagement.…”

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The influence of Islam in shaping organisational socially responsible behaviour

Koleva

Meadows

El‐Masry

2023

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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The role of religion in ethical decision‐making, both for individual managers and at an organisational level, remains elusive due to contrasting findings in extant literature. This is exacerbated by a dearth of studies focusing on specific religious mechanisms that can foster ethical decision‐making, particularly with respect to organisational corporate socially responsible (CSR) behaviour and in backgrounds different from Christianity. This exploratory study investigates the mechanisms in Islam that can influence individual/micro‐ and organisational/meso‐level ethical decision‐making, and hence CSR outcomes. It draws on in‐depth, qualitative data from 63 domestic organisations in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. The findings reveal a complex macro‐normative religious environment, founded on specific factors that shape ethics and decision‐making. Internalised by organisational leaders, these factors translate into organisational CSR behaviour as the organisation becomes a place for fulfilling individual religious responsibilities and even creates CSR products shaped around religious principles. The study contributes to the literature on ethical decision‐making, organisational behaviour and Islamic CSR and offers recommendations for policymakers and practitioners on integrating religion within the organisation.

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“…(2021) that extended the TPB theory by including religiosity and ethical judgement, this study adds religiosity to examine fraudulent customer behaviour on eBay. Ethical judgement and religiosity have been explored by studies (Alsaad et al., 2021; Kashif et al., 2017; Sulaiman et al., 2021; Uysal & Okumuş, 2019) however not in the context of fraudulent customer behaviour.…”

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Does psychological distance and religiosity influence fraudulent customer behaviour?

Singh

Gaur

Sharma

2022

Int J Consumer Studies

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Online businesses incur significant losses because of fraudulent customer behaviour. This study investigates the factors motivating fraudulent customer intention on eBay. A conceptual framework is developed that extends the theory of planned behaviour with religiosity factors, social detection risk, ethical judgement, and moderating factor of perceived psychological distance. A quantitative methodology is adopted that collects data from 450 respondents. Covariance‐based structural equation modelling is used to analyse the proposed hypotheses. Results reveal that intrinsic and extrinsic religiously negatively influences attitude towards fraudulent customer behaviour on eBay. Attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control positively influence fraudulent customer intentions, while ethical judgement negatively impacts it. Psychological distance strengthened the relationship between attitude, perceived behavioural control, and fraudulent customer intentions on eBay. Additionally, the association between ethical judgement and fraud intention was weaker for individuals with higher perceived psychological distance. The study contributes to the literature and provides insights to online businesses and cyber security developers into factors motivating fraudulent customer behaviour and strategies that can be used to combat this growing threat.

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The Role of Religiosity in Ethical Decision-Making: A Study on Islam and the Malaysian Workplace

Cited by 30 publications

References 105 publications

Mediating Role of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors on the Relation between Religious Practice and Academic Achievement in University Students

Mediating Role of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors on the Relation between Religious Practice and Academic Achievement in University Students

The influence of Islam in shaping organisational socially responsible behaviour

Does psychological distance and religiosity influence fraudulent customer behaviour?

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