Journal of Management Development: Volume 31 Issue 10

Practical wisdom for management from the Islamic tradition

Wafa El Garah, Rafik I. Beekun, André Habisch, Gilbert Lenssen, Cristian Loza Adaui

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the special issue on practical wisdom for management from the Islamic traditions.

Character centered leadership: Muhammad (p) as an ethical role model for CEOs

Rafik I. Beekun

The purpose of this paper is to examine the leadership style of Muhammad (p) within a character‐centric framework as a useful alternative to the transactional, self‐centered model…

Human resource development, motivation and Islam

Muhammad Burdbar Khan, Naeem Nisar Sheikh

An increasing number of human resource development (HRD) theorists and researchers are calling for a broader philosophical framework for HRD within management practice. The…

Islamic perspectives on training and professional development

Abderrahman Hassi

The purpose of this paper is to draw a portrait of training and development ideals and practices from the Islamic point of view.

Evaluating Chris Argyris's ideas: an Islamic perspective

Rodrigue Fontaine, Gapur Oziev, Hussein Hassan‐Hussein

The purpose of this paper is to investigate Chris Argyris's ideas from an Islamic perspective.

Spiritual capital: The co‐evolution of an ethical framework based on Abrahamic religious values in the Islamic tradition

Ouarda Dsouli, Nadeem Khan, Nada K. Kakabadse

The aim of this paper is to investigate how values from within Abrahamic religions could be adopted to improve liberal market economies’ (LMEs’) corporate governance business…

Boundaries and knowledge in a Sufi Dhikr Circle

Ali Aslan Guemuesay

The purpose of this paper is to infer, from the mystical Islamic tradition, practical wisdom for management development on knowledge transfer and storage as well as organizational…

Toward applied Islamic business ethics: responsible halal business

Muatasim Ismaeel, Katharina Blaim

The purpose of this paper is to explore the opportunities of using halal regulation and certification as a mechanism for applying Islamic business ethics in contemporary world.

Conference programme

Practical wisdom in management from the religious and philosophical traditions

Gilbert Lenssen, Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, Eric Cornuel, Andrew Kakabadse

Call for papers for the Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management