The practices of Islamic human resource management functions on organizational commitment: a study on administrators at Islamic institutions in Perlis

Muslim is the majority of the population, thus they dominate the workforce in Malaysia. Therefore, the implementation of the policy such as Dasar-dasar Penerapan Nilai Islam is one of the ways to instill the Islamic values towards the employees. This is to ensure that Muslim can practice the Islamic values in their work life where every employee should give their full commitment to their job as obligated in al-Quran. The commitment among employees is influenced by many factors including the management style of the organization. This research paper aims to identify the relationship and influence of the practices of Islamic human resource management functions on organizational commitment. In order to achieve the objectives, a quantitative research approach was employed where we distributed questionnaires to three Islamic institutions in Perlis. In total, 108 Muslim employees acted as the respondent ofthis study. The findings revealed that the selected organizations are highly practiced all of the Islamic human resource management functions. Based on the correlation and regression analysis, it shows that all functions are highly and significantly correlated to organizational commitment and recruitment function contributes the most towards organizational commitment. This research is an attempt to provide a reference for the managers and policy makers about the effective ways to manage and optimize the potential of the employees to achieve the organizational goals. This knowledge would also be useful to even non-Muslim managers. They will have a better understanding on human resource management based on Islamic perspective where it may assist them to manage their organization especially the Muslim employees. This research is unique from other previous studies. This research explores in-depth every functions of Islamic human resource management based on the authentic sources. The research was conducted to the different sample to confirm the previous theory and providing an empirical evidence