Organizational commitment in Islamic boarding school: the implementation of organizational behavior integrative model

Abstract

Introduction. The goal of the mediation analysis is to see if the Islamic work ethic has a more significant effect on the instructors' organizational commitment than the direct effects of Islamic organizational culture, leadership, and Islamic spiritual intelligence. The importance of this study is to examine these variables in Islamic context. Materials and methods. The population of this research include teachers of Islamic boarding schools on Java region, Indonesia. Participants included 360 teachers who were selected randomly from Islamic boarding schools and questionnaire was distributed online through google forms. SPSS AMOS was used as a technique for structural equation modeling to evaluate the expected direct effect of variables on commitment. To test the hypothesized indirect effect, Sobel test was employed. AMOS was used to evaluate the structure of interrelationships with one comprehensive technique. Research results. Islamic organizational culture, Islamic leadership, and Islamic spiritual intelligence significantly affect Islamic work ethic with (β=0.085, 0.292, 0.244) Respectively. When it comes to Islamic corporate culture, Islamic leadership, Islamic spiritual intelligence, and Islamic work ethics have a significant impact with (β= 0.060, 0.250, 0.206, 0.112) respectively. The findings of the mediation study reveal that Islamic organizational culture, leadership, and spiritual intelligence influences organizational commitment through Islamic work ethic with (β= 0.019, 0.027, 0.044) respectively. The total effect analysis shows that the most effective path to increase teachers’ organizational commitment is Islamic leadership – Islamic work ethic – organizational commitment. Conclusion. This study evaluates the Integrative Model of Organizational Behavior by Colquitt (2016) applied in Islamic Boarding School. The model consists of contemporary leadership and individual characteristic as the antecedent. The mediating variables of the model consist of individual mechanisms such as trust, justice, and ethic. Individual performance and organizational commitment are the model's outcomes. These variables, on the other hand, do not represent the Islamic viewpoint as a whole. As a result, this study aims to assess the role of Islamic principles in the model. The study employs reliability and validity tests to get reliable and valid measures. The findings revealed that the evaluation model is proven to improve organizational commitment at Islamic Boarding School. Another theoretical contribution of this research is to provide more information to answer why there are differences in result of research’s.