Developing an organizational design model from the islamic perspective

This paper debates the Islamic perspective on the organizational design. It aims to explore the fundamental design of organization that derived from the main sources of Islam, Quran and Sunnah. The rational of this research lies in the fact that there is a major need to develop an organizational design in light of Quran and Sunnah, and to the best of the authors’ knowledge there is no previous studies dealt with this issue before. The findings of this research effort revealed a fine model contains seven phases as the basic features of organizational design as follows: (1) analyzing the external environment, (2) formulating strategy, (3) building the appropriate structure, (4) arranging and mobilizing resources in a specific culture and system with the appropriate style of leadership. Consequently (5) selecting people in some manner that helps the organization achieve the desired goals. Furthermore, (6) leadership is found to be essential to maintain values and beliefs and enforce the fairness, equity, cooperation and empowerment within the organization. Finally,(7) performance assessmentis considered vital for our proposed model in order to improve and measure individuals' commitment to institutional culture and objectives. The significance of this study is that it addresses the gap in the management literature and suggests a group of features from fundamentals of Islam which can help in developing an organizational design model.