Staffing Practices in an Islamic University in Malaysia: A Conceptual Paper

Abstract

The objective of the study is to investigate the recruitment and selection practices of an Islamic university in Malaysia. The study is conducted due to the fact that the university has a long-standing reputation as the oldest Islamic university is Malaysia that has the merit to be used as a benchmark for other Islamic universities. Given the growing population of Muslims around the world combined with the thriving Islamic economy, a study should be conducted on the organizations’ practices in recruiting and selecting the employees. In Islam, recruiting and selecting employees are no different from the conventional way but the former has the spiritual elements that are based on revealed knowledge and not only based on rationality and emotions. Employees from four different categories from the university will be interviewed and the data will be analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings are expected to be used to develop an Islamic recruitment and selection model that is able to employ high quality employees that lead to high performing organizations.