Construction project leadership from the perspective of Islam
Construction industry is continuously being accused with common issues such as low performance, corruptions, spillages, bad practices in addition to common project failures despite advances in project management tools and techniques. This further adds to the existing and increasing complex and mu...
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| Language: | English |
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2014
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/108017/1/108017_Construction%20project%20leadership.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/108017/ |
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| Institution: | Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Construction industry is continuously being accused with common issues such as
low performance, corruptions, spillages, bad practices in addition to common
project failures despite advances in project management tools and techniques. This
further adds to the existing and increasing complex and multi-facets business
environment in construction projects that has resulted in the increasing pressure
and challenges faced by project leaders and project managers today. Researchers
in project management literature calls for more project leadership research as
leadership now is increasingly recognised as project success factor. Ethical
dilemma and leadership crisis facing the project managers and business
organisations reveals the shortcomings and inadequacies of the conventional nonIslamic leadership that is believed to be or that has not fully considered the
religious, spiritual, moral and ethical dimensions. Examples of these theories of
leadership are authentic leadership, servant leadership and ethical leadership.
Therefore, recent trend from literature has implicitly suggested a new form of
leadership for construction project manager which is spiritual, moral, values and
ethical form of leadership. The uniqueness of Islam is that it does not separate
religion and other aspects of human life activities. Construction and project
activities are part of the whole economic and social transactions of a nation and
thus it is part of Islam. Project management in particular leadership awaits divine
intervention that is tied to God consciousness and accords with values and
principles prescribed in the Quran and Sunnah. This research is intended to
overcome the spiritual and religious shortcomings of the present leadership models
by proposing an Islamic perspective of leadership for construction project
manager. |
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