Operations Management from Islamic Perspective
INTRODUCTION
Management characterizes the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). From western perspective, they usually emphasize on seeking tremendous profits regardless how they get it. They will do what ever it takes in order to achieve their targets. The main thing for them is profit maximization.
Whereas, the Islamic approach to management it is an emerging discipline, often referred to as Islamic management, looks at the management of organizations from the perspective of the knowledge from the revealed sources and other Islamic sources of knowledge and results in applications compatible with the Islamic beliefs and practices. The focus of Islamic management of quality and excellence is man (human resource) and not profit maximization. In other words, Islam put emphasize on balancing worldly and hereafter matters not just only aiming for the profits. They often do it in a right way. No negative elements insert to it. All things are done inline with Islamic guideline. They will think of the maslaha of all.
So here, we are suggesting some ideas pertaining to the management from Islamic perspective.
RESOURCES USED MUST BE PERMISSIBLE (1)
Resources means that a natural, human, or manufactured item that helps a produce goods and services; a productive agent or factor of production. In Islamic perspectives, all resources are provided by Allah and us as a Khalifah is not the owner of all the resources. According to Quran; 2:29, “the resources are for the benefit of all and not just a few”. Thus, it means that all human being must utilize the resources equally. Besides that, everyone also must acquired the resources rightfully, in manner that already indicated by the Quran and Sunnah and not cause any damage and inconvenience to the people and society in general.
Halal or permissible means
Management characterizes the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). From western perspective, they usually emphasize on seeking tremendous profits regardless how they get it. They will do what ever it takes in order to achieve their targets. The main thing for them is profit maximization.
Whereas, the Islamic approach to management it is an emerging discipline, often referred to as Islamic management, looks at the management of organizations from the perspective of the knowledge from the revealed sources and other Islamic sources of knowledge and results in applications compatible with the Islamic beliefs and practices. The focus of Islamic management of quality and excellence is man (human resource) and not profit maximization. In other words, Islam put emphasize on balancing worldly and hereafter matters not just only aiming for the profits. They often do it in a right way. No negative elements insert to it. All things are done inline with Islamic guideline. They will think of the maslaha of all.
So here, we are suggesting some ideas pertaining to the management from Islamic perspective.
RESOURCES USED MUST BE PERMISSIBLE (1)
Resources means that a natural, human, or manufactured item that helps a produce goods and services; a productive agent or factor of production. In Islamic perspectives, all resources are provided by Allah and us as a Khalifah is not the owner of all the resources. According to Quran; 2:29, “the resources are for the benefit of all and not just a few”. Thus, it means that all human being must utilize the resources equally. Besides that, everyone also must acquired the resources rightfully, in manner that already indicated by the Quran and Sunnah and not cause any damage and inconvenience to the people and society in general.
Halal or permissible means
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