A Comparative Study of Management in Islam and the West in the Area of Management Process

Subject Areas : مدیریت

saeideh Lotfipour ¹ , Hasan Rangriz ² , Mehdi Sadegi ³

1 - M.A., Department of Executive Management, Kermanshah Research Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Human Resource Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Management, Islamabad West Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran

Received: 2020-10-15 Accepted : 2020-10-15 Published : 2019-02-20

Keywords: Management, organizing, Islam, Planning, the West,

Abstract :

This paper tries to compare Islam and the West in the area of management process. It is a practical research carried out in 1394(2015) and a descriptive-survey in terms of method and nature which attempts to offer various aspects of Islam's impacts on management. The population of the investigation is 140 administrators and faculty members and 93 seminary leaders and students of Kermanshah city. Sampling was calculated by Cochran’s formula and the number of samples in the academic and seminary communities were selected as 103, and 75 individuals, respectively. Data collection instrument was a questionnaire of 38 items with 5 degree responses based on Likert scale. Its validity was approved by experts and its reliability proved to be 0.869 by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The information was analyzed by SPSS using the Mann-Whitney U test. The results show that the importance of management factors has also been presented in Islam and the West. The results suggest that management in Islam has fundamental differences with the management in the West in terms of effective characteristics of nature, foundation principles and objectives. They have different procedures in planning, organizing, leadership, decision-making, control and coordination as the main management factors. Furthermore, as the difference in methodology for planning and coordination components was minimal, it has been ignored and it is referred as similarity. The result of the library research is presented in a table applying the studies on the provided subject representing the differences among experts’ opinion about management in Islam and the West.