Summary

This research is about the Islamic work ethics and it aims to investigate how these Islamic work ethics has impact on two work related outcomes which are named as organisational commitment and job performance. By focusing on the significance of work ethics, this research intent to examine the effect of Islamic work ethics on work connected results that contain job performance as well as organisational commitment. This research is specifically conducted on Kazakhstan Innovational Commercial Bank JSC to solve the current problem related to declining performance. The motivation for conducting this research is that currently Kazakhstan Innovational Commercial Bank JSC is facing various problems related to work related outcomes. As per the demand of the Kazakhstan Innovational Commercial Bank JSC, this research project is designed.

Objectives:

This project revolves around the following deliverables.

• Firstly, this research reviews the previous studies which are already conducted on Islamic work ethics. During this review, the link of Islamic work ethics on job related outcomes is established.
• Secondly, this research examines the role of Islamic work ethics on job performance by conducting a survey at Kazakhstan Innovational Commercial Bank JSC.
• Thirdly, this research has investigated the impact of Islamic work ethics on organisational commitment at Kazakhstan Innovational Commercial Bank JSC.

Methodology

This research has adopted the quantitative research methodology. This research is based on positivism research philosophy. The strategy of survey is adopted. The survey is conducted on Kazakhstan Innovational Commercial Bank JSC, where this research has used the sample size of 250 employees from various branches of this financial institution. For this research, data is analysed through statistical tests. SPSS is used for data analysis. Various statistical tests were used; most important statistical tests were correlation and regression analysis. This methodology is adopted as per the recommendation of the client of this project i.e. Kazakhstan Innovational Commercial Bank JSC.

Key results

The results have proved that Islamic work ethics are of great importance as they positively influence the job performance and organisational commitment. The nature of relationship is positive, which shows that Islamic work ethics has a positive impact on both work related outcomes which are named job performance and organizational commitment. The following table depicts the results of hypotheses of this research project.

Recommendations

It is recommended to Kazakhstan Innovational Commercial Bank JSC that Islamic work ethics must be promoted in this financial institution. it could promote this by giving utmost importance to its external and internal customers. There must be a proper code of conduct for treating both external and internal customers. Moreover, Islamic work ethics policy is suggested to Kazakhstan Innovational Commercial Bank JSC, this must be promoted in Kazakhstan Innovational Commercial Bank JSC.

1.Introduction

Due to the presence of large number of unethical cases in the earlier many years, ethics have become highly significant factor in the work setting. Ethics have become an important topic and concern for large number of scholars. Huge number of issues are being faced by different states as well as business concerns regarding ethics.  Certain types of ethics are dictated by Islamic Shariah. It has been proved from past researches that ethics are significant for job associated results and there is a need to find the function performed by Islamic work ethics (Abdi et al., 2012)

In the view of Ali (1988), job ethics for each person are made by his/her religious belief as well as social beliefs.  Ethics for every person are not same and they are different for every person. Work ethics are highly useful and important for making the business concern successful and sustainable.  Furthermore, business concerns are capable to work more efficiently and proficiently by focusing on work ethics. As per view of Yunus et al (2011) work ethics contributes in the economic development and achievement of the business concern. Furthermore, they also declared that work ethics are beneficial for work connected conduct and results. In a broader view, ethics are significant for a person’s outlooks for the work, therefore his/her work participation, and commitment as well as obligation is related with the ethics at workplace. Therefore, ethical individuals are more useful than those persons who