In an age marked by digital transformation and global uncertainty, traditional management education remains helpful but no longer sufficient to prepare leaders for the challenges ahead. This paper proposes a holistic framework that integrates human values with digital innovation to create a future-ready paradigm for business education. Built on a strong foundation of ethics, compassion, environmental care, and technological proficiency, our framework introduces Seven Transformative Educational Pillars and Five Engines of Sustainable Business Development. These elements serve as a blueprint for cultivating conscious, adaptive, and impact-driven leaders. By drawing on ideas from systems thinking, emotional intelligence, and stakeholder theory, as well as lessons learned from hands-on, real-world experiences, the paper highlights real-world applications through global case studies from organizations like Google, Unilever, Patagonia, Amazon, and Zappos. It not only presents these cases as sources of knowledge but also reveals the hidden values these companies uphold during pivotal decision-making moments. By uniting humanistic principles with emerging innovations, the paper offers a visionary yet actionable roadmap for reimagining management education in a rapidly changing world.
International relations, Economic growth, development, planning
Viorica Mirela ȘTEFAN-DUICU, Mihaela SUDACEVSCHI, Maria Zenovia GRIGORE
This article focuses on the importance and the strategic role of generative artificial intelligence in process management at the organizational level and outlines the conceptual framework of generative AI technology. At a company level, decision-making processes are directly influenced by the automation of operational processes to a large extent, with human resource being the key to information modelling. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the impact and how generative AI technologies can be strategically leveraged within a company. These aspect concentrates on sustaining innovation at a high level and maintaining a competitive advantage in a dynamic economy. The main points of the research include: descriptive elements of AI technologies, exploration of generative AI capability in organizational environment processes, the strategic role of using these technologies, describing human resources in reshaping the results obtained and the conduct of work processes, identifying challenges and managing risks in this modern global framework of functioning in the human resources market. Generative AI technologies present a major potential in handling the company's business because it provides support on every operational level, being a strategic mechanism that facilitates adaptation to the innovative markets and resilient conditions.
This article explores how smart leadership contributes to developing inclusive, equitable, and sustainable smart cities amidst the backdrop of rapid urbanization and technological advancement. Smart leadership, as articulated in this article, embodies a holistic and forward-looking approach that prioritizes the well-being and inclusion of residents as a primary concern. In line with this approach, technological innovation is harmoniously embodied alongside an unwavering commitment to social justice, sustainability, and long-term planning, enabling cities that are not only technologically advanced, but also more sustainable, equitable and enriched for all residents. Central to this visionary leadership is a profound recognition of equality and representation in city governance. The principles of inclusive leadership require a leadership structure that reflects the diversity of the population, ensuring that the voices of all communities are integral to decision-making processes. Smart leaders actively advocate for the problems and aspirations of each segment of society, promoting a sense of belonging and empowerment among residents, thereby strengthening the city’s commitment to the principles of social cohesion and equal opportunities. In addition, sound leadership recognizes the key challenge of the digital divide, which can exacerbate disparities in urban landscapes. This article highlights the fundamental importance of digital access in ensuring all residents’ full participation in modern society, economics, and governance. Smart leaders introduce policies and initiatives to bridge the digital divide and ensure equal access to digital tools and information for every resident, regardless of socioeconomic background. This proactive approach promotes digital inclusion and lays the foundation for seamless smart technology integration in the city, ultimately improving its residents’ overall quality of life. Through a systematic analysis of articles, this inquiry observes the metamorphosis of cities into centers of advanced technological implementation and economic dynamism. The article proposes the author’s Smart City Leadership Activity Model, which contains several key principles of smart leadership in the context of equitable, sensible, and strategic smart city growth, development, and innovation.
leila jahantigh, Abbas Babaeenezhad, Mohsen Zayandehroudi
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AbstractThe purpose of this research is to model the relationship between the moral code derived from Islamic teachings and performance with the mediating variable of employees' perception. The current research is applicable in terms of purpose, and survey type in terms of nature and method. The statistical population of the present study includes the employees of Sistan and Baluchistan province as many as 48011 thousand people. The collection tool in the current research includes the organizational equality perception questionnaire by Astron (2015). The reliability of the research was checked and confirmed using Cronbach's alpha criterion in SPSS software. AMOS software was used to fit the conceptual model of the research. The results of the exploratory analysis confirmed the mediating role of employees' perception in the effect of the moral charter derived from Islamic teachings on organizational performance. The results show that the code of ethics derived from Islamic teachings has a positive and significant effect on organizational performance (β=0.247, p-value<0.05), and the (partial) mediating role of employees' perception on the relationship between moral code derived from Islamic teachings and organizational performance was confirmed.Extended abstractIntroductionProfessional ethics is one of the fields that have a close relationship with value and belief bases. Man is the fundamental factor of movement and transformation in the organization/department, and attention to this important and strategic factor in the work environment and activities will lead to a series of growth and excellence. Therefore, professional ethics will play an important role in this field with regard to the solutions to improve intra-organizational communication (Mehdizadeh Rostam et al, 2020). Based on this, professional ethics can be seen as the supervisor's behavior and attitude towards other workers within the organization and even with people outside the organization (Hebenstreit et al, 2018). In the 1990s, a wave of voluntary corporate codes emerged, activated by efforts to improve reputation and avoidance of companies from scandals and unethical scandals (Kaptein, 2004). Lack of commitment to ethical and Islamic principles has a positive effect on the initiation, facilitation and expansion of administrative corruption (Morre, 2008). One of the most common employee problems and issues that the management is widely faced with is dishonesty and fraud at work. Research shows that 90% of employees are dismissed due to theft and 88% of them are dismissed due to lying. These cases show the deepening of work ethic norms within organizations (Javadin & Jalilian, 2021). For the proper movement of any organization, it needs to understand and manage the ethical and professional attitude of its employees (Yaqoubi et al, 2020). In Islamic societies, morals and religious values are considered as an essential part of people's culture and identity. Examining the effect of the code of ethics on the performance of employees based on Islamic teachings helps to gain a better understanding of the impact of religious values on individual and organizational behavior and performance, and defines the performance of employees as a standard of progress, overtime, reward, punishment, revision and salary changes. This research seeks to answer the question: "What is the relationship between the code of ethics derived from Islamic teachings and organizational performance, and does the employees' perception of this code of ethics play a role in this relationship?"Theoretical FrameworkCode of ethics in IslamIslam is the last and most complete heavenly religion that addresses all aspects of human life (Fayaz, Mehrabani, 2016). Institutions and business organizations are more inclined to acknowledge consequential ethics than statutory ethics, and the reason is partly due to the persuasive arguments of Adam Smith, the Scottish political economist and moral philosopher. He believed that the personal benefit of a human kind is the providence of God, not the will of the state. Smith presented the fourth philosophy of natural liberty, which represents the classical argument for open market competition and free trade. In this framework, people should be allowed to pursue work that is of personal and economic benefit to them, and the natural efficiency of the labor market serves the improvement of society. Another part of those ideas is presented through spiritual ethics. Theories of ethical writing emphasize the character of the individual and the intention of the actor, as opposed to the character of the action itself or the consequences of the action. These theories emphasize the ethics of piety and are based on Aristotle's approach to character. Robert Solomon is one of the most famous proponents of this Aristotelian approach to business ethics. He favors theories of business ethics that focus on individuals within companies, so he emphasizes both corporate roles and personal piety. The center of Aristotle's view for the inner character and piety of being a person on the behavior or actions of a person; so, a good person who has acted rightly through piety is a person with perfection, and eventually has good moral standards (Nelson et al, 2011).Kozáková et al, (2021) investigated factors affecting the prevalence of ethical codes: evidence from Slovakia. Their findings showed that first, companies with less ethical codes use general terms. When they want to specialize in ethical issues, the scope should be wider. Second, companies with fewer employees do not need extensive codes of conduct because of the clear rules that are directly known to the owners. In multinational companies, the communication of ethical rules is realized through ethical codes with specific objectives, because a direct way is impossible. Third, foreign-owned companies use different management approaches and therefore codes of ethics differ in terms of extent and content.Fallahi (2021) investigated a research entitled professional ethics in education and training centers, emphasizing the statement of the second step of the Islamic revolution. 5 categories of professional ethics; individual, social, training, education, education and training centers are important, as well as the values of professional ethics will lead to self-improvement in the first degree, and in the second degree, to community building, and in the third degree, to civilization.Research methodologyThe current research is applicable in terms of purpose, and survey type in terms of nature and method. The statistical population of the present study includes the employees of Sistan and Baluchistan province in the number of 48011 thousand people, due to the large sample size, 384 employees in the cities of Zabul, Zahedan and Khash were considered as sample, using the Morgan Karjesi table. The collection tool in the current research includes the organizational equality perception questionnaire by Astron (2015).Research findingsSPSS and AMOS software were used to analyze the data. The results of the exploratory analysis confirmed the mediating role of employees' perception in the effect of the moral charter derived from Islamic teachings on organizational performance. The results show that the code of ethics derived from Islamic teachings has a positive and significant effect on organizational performance (β=0.247, p-value<0.05), and the (partial) mediating role of employees' perception on the relationship between moral code derived from Islamic teachings and organizational performance was confirmed.ConclusionThe current research was conducted with the aim of modeling the relationship between the moral code derived from Islamic teachings and performance with the mediating variable of employees' perception. The results of this research are in agreement with the research results of Kozáková et al, (2021), Fallahi (2021), Mehdizadeh Rostam et al, (2020), Yaghubi et al, (2020), Rezaei Kilidbari et al, (2020), Atak & S1k (2019), and Sagheb Esmaeelpour et al, (2019). (Sagheb Esmaeelpour et al, 2019) conducted a research on mentioned topic. The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between work ethic and its dimensions with the job performance of employees. Considering the direct relationship between work ethics and job performance, it can be said that the promotion of employees' work ethics is associated with the increase of employees' performance; therefore, it is suggested to improve the status of work ethics and job performance of employees. More attention should be paid to work ethics in various dimensions of cognitive programs and organizational learning so as to increase the performance and active participation of employees in organizational affairs and to fulfill individual responsibilities; and the managers of universities and subordinate centers should pay serious attention to the various ethical dimensions of administrative therapy employees in order to increase the level of their employees' job performance and try to improve the moral level of employees by holding training workshops, forming problem solving teams and encouraging their employees.According to the results of the research, the following suggestions are presented:According to the Islamic teachings, the moral charter can become a program to transform the global threat into a global opportunity for the advancement of human culture and the excellence of human life. With the rich culture of Islam and the useful experiences of the ancient Iranian civilization, Iranian business organizations can play an important role in promoting global ethics in business; the Islamic code of ethics makes organizations better deal with economic, political and cultural crisis; ethical organizations in Islamic business insist on respecting the rights of employees in addition to the rights of customers, and based on their rights, they begin to formulate their ethical duties. Finally, it helps the organizational personnel to achieve organizational goals by simplifying their work with greater effectiveness.
Public trust in the Indonesian insurance business is shaken by the crisis that rocked multiple insurance companies. This study investigates insurance brokerage institutions’ involvement in Indonesia’s insurance activities and how to improve public trust. This research uses normative legal research by examining library materials or secondary data. In contrast, the nature of the research is analytically descriptive, depicting the existence of insurance brokerage institutions in the Indonesian insurance industry for further analysis to complete the picture of brokerage companies’ role in improving the industry. The research found that insurance brokers help insureds choose an insurance carrier, handle the claims process, and resolve claim disputes, making them crucial to Indonesian insurance. Brokers can gain public trust by increasing insurance literacy, transparency of insurance product information, helping consumers resolve insurance claims and advising the Financial Services Authority on insurance regulations. To gain public trust in insurance, the insurance industry should prepare a more effective and comprehensive set of regulations to prevent legal uncertainty and provide adequate legal protection to customers. At a micro level, every regulation prepared by the company can provide certainty. The company’s ethics and corporate governance policy is explicit.
Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence
Business and trade become an inseparable part of Islamic life. The rapidly growing market in cyberspace is a challenge for business players in the form of goods and services to expand and develop their business strategies, namely in terms of marketing. The purpose of the research in this article is to find out digital marketing from an Islamic perspective. The method used is a literature review, which is a literature search both internationally and nationally conducted using the Google Scholar database, ScienceDirect, ProQuest, JIM (Journal for Islamic Marketing), which is about 40 journal articles and 10 books of full quality and medium that is considered relevant is used in this study. The results show that sharia digital marketing activities must be based on Islamic principles. The implementation of digital marketing in sharia is almost the same as the digital marketing principle, yet the difference is the application of the character of business actors accompanied by sharia marketing ethics following the principles as described in the previous discussion. The steps of sharia digital marketing taken are as follows: Creating a Website and Social Media Account, Branding, Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Video Production, and Segmentation.
In the present article, a meta-analysis on the subject of business ethics is proposed. The issue has been a field of interest since the beginning of the early commerce forms, when the bartering was predominant, and was based on the principal of equal exchange. Many prominent philosophers and economists have taken an interest on the subject and have exposed theories regarding the concept of the business ethics, how has appeared and the evolution of it together with the development of the business environment.
As mentioned, the subject has suffered many transformations as time has passed and it became more important once the globalization trending of the countries has also evolved. Nowadays, due to
the interconnection between all the people, the companies must take great precaution in this subject, as the customers have also evolved and are paying more and more attention to the ethical aspects of their preferred companies.
The article summarizes the arguments in the scientific debate on public trust in vaccination against COVID-19. The main purpose of the research is to model the trend of changes in the trust in vaccination against COVID-19, analyzing time series by exponential smoothing. The object of the study is the public trust in vaccination against COVID-19. The research aims to model the changing trend of the trust in the vaccination against COVID-19 using time series analysis. Systematization of literature sources and approaches to solving the vaccination problem during the pandemic showed that various psychological, social, economic factors, including trust in official information, affect the level of trust in vaccination. Declining confidence in the authorities, medical institutions, social institutions, and the media significantly impacts the effectiveness of pandemic containment measures. The trust of the population in state institutions in scientifically based information on vaccination provides the necessary level of vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study regarding the changing trend in the level of trust in vaccination against COVID-19 analyzing time series by exponential smoothing in the article is carried out in the following logical sequence: 1) Internet users on the issues of “Trust in vaccination against COVID-19”, “Vaccination against COVID-19”, “Trust in vaccination” was carried out using Google Trends; 3) Statistica software package was used to implement exponential smoothing models. Predictive models of exponential smoothing based on the following indicators: “Trust in vaccination against COVID-19”, “Trust in vaccination”, “Vaccination against COVID-19” are constructed. Time series models related to public confidence in COVID-19 vaccination demonstrate the presence of a seasonal component every two weeks. The results of the study can be useful for the development of scientifically sound recommendations to control the vaccination process during a pandemic, to build predictions of the level of trust in vaccination against COVID-19.
Constanza Miranda, Julian Goñi, Bruk Berhane
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The growth of undergraduate entrepreneurship education programs and research, both within and outside of business programs, has led to a diverse array of academic literature on this topic. The diversity of perspectives has led to many conceptual and educational challenges that remain unresolved within the literature. The following conceptual paper offers a critical perspective on challenges that have been identified. A narrative-style literature review was conducted to explore challenges emerging from both (a) the practice of teaching entrepreneurship and (b) the definitions and assessment of entrepreneurial mindsets and skills that result from those education processes in entrepreneurship education, particularly within an undergraduate engineering education context. We achieve this objective by discussing previously dispersed sources of literature from disciplines that have critically discussed and explored entrepreneurial themes, such as business education, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. Contemporary debates within multiple disciplines are integrated and organized as challenges to inspire new theoretical discussions among scholars, educators, and other practitioners that can inform a more comprehensive way to conceive and assess entrepreneurship in engineering education. Seven challenges were identified ranging from the definition of entrepreneurship in education to the role of ethics in the teaching and assessment of entrepreneurship. We use these seven challenges and research questions as a starting point for the disambiguation of the working definition of entrepreneurship in the context of engineering education.
Liquidity management has been incessantly challenging for the financial institutions and especially Islamic financial institutions due to their nature of business. The convoluted nature of liquidity management impedes the task of Islamic banks in managing their liquidity efficiently. Given the intricacies of the subject matter, this paper delves into elaborating the critical aspects of liquidity management; subsequently, discusses the consequences of poor liquidity management and problems inherent in managing the latter by analyzing the
real-life failure of an Islamic financial institution as a result identifying the issues that could possibly jeopardize
the existence of the Islamic banks. The research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the liquidity
management framework and furnish with effective tools to mitigate the liquidity risk for the Islamic banks.
A very eclectic group of individuals representing a very diverse cross-section of organizations met at the Vatican to participate in the launch of the Vatican’s new Humanity 2.0 initiative. The forum consisted of a series of panel discussions focused on various themes. The overall focal point of this new initiative of the Vatican is to help mother’s worldwide have healthier pregancies. A series of labs will take place, led by Square Roots, with the first taking place in Rome.
Public aspects of medicine, Practical religion. The Christian life
Previous studies such as Cornelius et al. (2007) have focused on the role of business schools in equipping their students with an understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and ethical reasoning skills. This study appears to be the first look at CSR and ethics teaching specifically within the agricultural sector. Given agricultures direct link between economics and the environment (Diebel 2008) and the public’s growing perception that business is harming the environment (Porter and Kramer 2011) this study provides a timely insight into CSR and ethics teaching within agricultural education. By means of a content analysis of syllabuses from the top agricultural institutions in four English speaking countries-Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA this study has highlighted that despite the policy and cultural differences between countries that the level of CSR and ethics teaching in each of the countries does not significantly differ (P>0.05). Furthermore and surprisingly, institutional ranking was also not found to have a significant effect (P>0.05) on CSR and ethics teaching provision. This has important implications for academia, industry and the public alike.
This essay investigates the limiting capacity of the planet to support humans, making various assumptions about current practices and the intensities of per caput resource consumption. Supposing people to be exclusively vegetarian, consuming cereals produced by present methods, at the highest reported yields, and also eschewing the cultivation of non-edible crops, the Earth is argued to be capable of sustaining a population up to 55 billion. Consuming mixed diets including meat and beverages while continuing to raise non-food crops reduces the capacity by 7- to 10-fold, closer to the actual population at the present time. When the availability and distribution of exploitable water supplies are considered, it is difficult to argue for a sustainable population much exceeding 10 billion, without considerable changes in the equity of supply. All such extrapolations are subject to unknown consequences of rapid and chaotic climate change. The possibility that the rate of human population growth may be stabilising for other reasons, with numbers perhaps peaking at 10 to 11 billion, may yet allow increasingly widespread and severe water shortages to be avoided. This coincidence offers the opportunity to improve human sustainability through new social structures and new, cleaner, more resource-efficient technologies. They need to be directed towards solving inequities in resource use—not only of food and energy, but especially also of water. Though ultimately speculative and polemical, the essay is a genuine attempt to promote the case for recognising our real problems and the need to evolve strategies for survival.
The recession has greatly affected the business operations of every undertaking, including healthcare organizations. Change is required. This also concerns the relationship towards employees in terms of their influence on the successful business operations of an organization. Among employees, physicians possess a special, now already traditional status; therefore, their influence needs to be taken advantage of. In the empiric part of the study, we have identified twelve key physician competencies, based on the rankings of physicians, which, in their mind, influence successful business operations of their respective healthcare organizations during an economic recession. The comparison of the collected results to the findings on intellectual charm of managers has indicated that the collected key competencies, that are creativity, quality, education and personal development, attitude towards others, team work and cooperation, communication skills, problem management, business integrity, motivation and stimulation, multidisciplinary thinking, attitude towards culture and ethics, and acceptance of differences, form a whole which is named the intellectual charm of physicians.
Historical study of the Muhammad’s behavior and business ethics before being appointed as messenger is an interesting study, because the conduct and business ethics that Mohammed applied was based on the study of the verses of the Koran. After appointed as messenger (40 years old), the life of prophet Muhammad was more guided by the revelations of the Qur'an. Some principles which the prophet applied are honest, amanah, accurate in weighting, avoid gharar, not hoard goods, not execute al-ghab and tadlis among seller and buyer.
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Kajian sejarah mengenai perilaku dan etika bisnis Muhammad sebelum ditunjuk sebagai nabi merupakan kajian yang menarik, karena peri laku dan etika bisnis yang diterapkan oleh Muhammad didasarkan pada kajian ayat-ayat al-Qur’an. Setelah ditunjuk sebagai nabi (usia 40 tahun), kehidupan Nabi Muhammad lebih dibimbing oleh wahyu-wahyu al-Qur’an. Beberapa prinsip yang diterapkan oleh Muhammad adalah jujur, amanah, timbangan yang tepat, menghindari gharar, tidak menimbun barang, tidak melakukan al-ghalb dan tadlis di antara penjual dengan pembeli.