Islamic. vs. Conventional. HRD

Islamic vs. Conventional Human Resource By: Prof. Dr. Mohd. Ma’sum Billah masum2001@yahoo.com applied-islamicfinance@yahoo.com

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Introduction

Human resource is related with the people who work in an organization and it is also called personnel. Islamic practice could be applied in human resource. Muslim has to apply the Islamic teachings in our daily life whether we are in the workplace or at home. Workers also should know their rights under the labor laws. They should under stand that there may be certain risk associated with such membership. For example, discontinuation of employment in covered positions and holiday and leave entitlement are stated under the law of labor.

Nowadays, there are many organizations that are using conventional human resource practice. We as Muslim have to change this kind of practice by applying the Islamic human resource practice in our workplace. There are many kind of Islamic practice that has been implemented in Muslim and also in non-Muslim organizations. Under this topic, we are discussing about conventional human resource and Islamic human resource in order to do the comparison.

Vendor Efficiencies and Service

➢ In conventional human resource, efficiencies in services are very important in order to obtain good image towards the customer. But, in order to give the best services, sometimes the employees are pushed to work hard and leaving their limitation. This is not good for human health and mind. Several executives claimed that better service could not be obtained with most outsourced services. Moreover, these executives argued that the pursuit of cost savings often resulted in the loss of service quality.

In this case, employees are working for the sake of the company. ➢ In Islam, all of our doings is for the sake of Allah. It is because the doings are considered as our ibadah. So, giving the vendor efficiencies and the best services is for the sake of Allah. Moreover, when we gave efficiencies to others, they will appreciate it and will come back for your services. The people also will be satisfied and have no heart feeling towards the services.

Cost savings ➢ In this sub-topic, conventional human resources always outsource the cost as the lower the cost, the more benefit for the company. The cost saved is usually from the cut budget and to lower the cost, they usually not having honesty in their heart. ➢ In Islamic human resource, cost saved is based on necessities. For example, they cut the budget that they think is preferable to be cut. They do not simply cut the budget just to save the cost because they have to think the long term effect. Moreover, the employees have to be honest in their work in order to achieve success in this world and in the hereafter.

Discipline ➢ Discipline is one of the most important thing in any organization. As a responsible employee, they should perform their discipline with well manner. It could raise the level of respect from others and also could give motivation to them. Discipline also could give satisfaction to others and also to ourselves. ➢ Punctuality is very important in order to make sure that the workers are ready at all time. So, they can perform well in completing their task. Moreover, in Islam, time management is very important because the time that has past us will not come back.

We cannot do anything to change the history. ➢ Responsibility is one of the most important characteristic in the ethics of working. As a Muslim, to complete the task in their work with full concentration and full commitment is the most important requirement in order to fulfill the responsibility of work. This is the stand to be more efficient and productive workers. ➢ Hardworking is also preferable to make sure the task is completed. This attitude will be rewarded by the company if the hardwork is beneficial for the production of the company.

Sexual harassment ➢ In this case, dress code is the best way to prevent sexual harassment from being done by some culprits. Usually, conventional human resource did not pressed about the dress code especially for the private company. The employees will wear whatever kind of dress they like. It will lead to sexual harassment to occur. ➢ Moreover, the dress code by the conventional human resources will disturb others attention or concentration. For example, those who with short skirt will lead to uncomfortable situation especially men.

This situation is not preferable. ➢ But in Islam, dress code that covers their aurah is preferable. It will prevent the workers from sexual harassment. Dress code or attire is also symbol of the organization. For example jobs that wear uniform such as policemen, army, nurses and doctors and many more. To apply the Islamic teachings, the dress code should cover the aurah. The best example is nurse. A few years back, they could not properly cover their aurah because of their attire is not complete and also the regulations itself (when wearing hijab, it consider as not smart).

But it changes now because the uniform of a nurse now cover their aurah and it is not a problem of smart anymore.

Conclusion

After all of the analysis we have done in order to work out this assignment, we have concluded that Islam is a universal religion. Islamic teaching is very suitable to be implied in our daily working life either in the good or bad situation. Moreover, applying Islamic concept brings more good benefit rather than conventional human resource that is much more difficult to be applied. As a Muslim, we have to started in doing all the practice that are teach in Islam, so that, when it give a good effect then the entire organization can accept and respect our religion.

Nowadays, there are many companies that are practicing Islamic human resource. It showed that Islamic human resource is practical and suitable for every human being. On the other hand, if we look deeply, all the practice are not hard to be implemented in workplace because its still not disturb working hour, and give more spirit to the employee to perform well. This will result the organization increase in achievement. This is a good improvement needed by the companies throughout the world.