Leadership has been much talked about in the literature of social sciences. Numerous theories seem to have confused researchers and therefore scattered ideas about leadership continue to emerge from time to time. These theories can be classified into behavioral studies, contingency studies,...

Rapid development and changes brought about by the global business environment should be accompanied by human resource management (HRM) practices which are progressive and forward looking to avoid failure for firms due to inability to properly manage their human capital. This study was...

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) launched a shar¥cah based Microfinance program named Rural Development Scheme (RDS) in 1995, to uplift the overall socioeconomic plight of the rural poor. Presently, some 0.52 million group members of which 94 percent are female, are involved in this...

The subject of public finance and taxation marked the beginning of systematic and rather exclusive writing on economic issues in Islamic scholarship in its earliest period. Within a few centuries, a large number of works came out on the subject. This trend continued in the later centuries but...

This study looks at the ethical and moral responsibilities of Muslims in the area of problem solving and decision-making. This moral responsibility is based on the objectives of the shar¥cah (maqOE§id al-shar¥cah) and ijtihOEd. This author defines management from an Islamic perspective (MIP)...