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Effective leadership and organisational performance in technically demanding sectors increasingly depend on values-driven, human-centred approaches that extend beyond conventional managerial competencies. This qualitative study examines how workplace spirituality shapes leadership behaviour, organisational dynamics, employee development, and soft skill cultivation within a South African engineering organisation. Employing an interpretivist phenomenological design with fifteen purposively selected participants and inductive thematic analysis via Atlas.ti, six interrelated themes emerged: (1) understanding of spirituality; (2) challenges in employee development; (3) employee development strategies; (4) impact of spirituality on workplace dynamics; (5) spirituality and leadership decision-making; and (6) soft skills. Findings reveal that spirituality understood as connectedness, calling, integrity, and altruism enables transformational, servant, and spiritual leadership orientations that create psychologically safe, values-aligned environments. These environments demonstrably improve organisational commitment, ethical decision-making, human resource development outcomes, and soft skills formation, with direct implications for leadership strategy and organisational culture design. The study contributes to humanistic leadership and HRD scholarship in emerging economy engineering contexts, with practical implications for workforce transformation in post-apartheid South Africa.

An archivist is in charge of document management, from creation to disposal. This task can be done well if someone has good competence in managing archives. This research was conducted quantitatively by sending questionnaires to archivists who worked in public higher education institutions in Indonesia. Data collection used a questionnaire, then confirmatory factor analysis and regression were used for data analysis. In this study, spiritual intelligence was added as a moderator to provide another color from previous research.What's more, spiritual intelligence is a soft skill needed by all types of work, including archivists. This study proves that spiritual intelligence as a moderator can support the relationship between competence and archivist performance. The presence of spiritual intelligence strengthens the relationship of competence to the performance of an archivist. Spiritual intelligence as a soft skill has a positive effect on an archivist in completing daily work.

This study examines and analyzes the effect of; (i) Human Capital in Islamic Perspective (HCIP) on Business Sustainability (BS); (ii) Strategic Management in Islamic Perspective (SMIP) on Business Sustainability, (iii) Mediation of Strategic Management in Islamic Perspective in relation to Human Capital in Islamic Perspective on Business Sustainability. This study uses Batik MSME respondents in Pekalongan City. Pekalongan is a Batik city that has the batik talents, qualified craftsmen, known worldwide and have been passed down from one generation to the next. The target sample is 150 MSMEs. It is conducted purposively with a return rate of 116 questionnaires (response rate 77%). The data is collected through questionnaires and interviews with several owners or managers of MSMEs. The statistical technique uses Partial Least Square (PLS 3.3). This study finds that; (i) Human Capital in Islamic Perspective has no significant effect on Business Sustainability; (ii) Strategic Management in Islamic Perspective has a significant effect on Business Sustainability, (iii) Strategic Management in Islamic Perspective mediates the effect of Human Capital in Islamic Perspective on Business Sustainability

Islamic work ethics of Muslim employees is substantial, as many previous studies show its role in the sound performance of the employees. This study aims to propose the measurement model of Islamic work ethics for Muslim employees in the banking industry. This study identifies eight dimensions of Islamic work ethics upon intensive literature review: religiousness, collectivity, equality, effort, quality, work obligation, competition, and advantage. Based on these dimensions and through certain systematic stages, this study develops a measurement consisting of 47 items. The contribution of this study is to provide a more suitable measurement that can be used by following empirical research to assess the profile of Islamic work ethics for Muslim employees, both for Islamic banking and conventional banking.

To analyze the influence of spiritual leadership on the organizational commitment of lecturers, spiritual leadership on the workplace spirituality, spiritual leadership on spiritual survival, Workplace Spirituality on the organizational commitment of lecturers, and Spiritual Survival towards the organizational commitment of lecturers in  Private Universities in Medan. The study population was all permanent lecturers of private universities owned by  Foundation ( organizations) totaling 425 permanent lecturers who had functional positions as expert assistants, lecturers, and head lecturers and had the following characteristics: (1) tenure of over 1 year, (2 ) Domicile in Medan and (3) Carry out the Tri Dharma of Higher Education. Determination of the number using the Slovin formula and obtained as many as 219 lecturers and data analysis used was path analysis. The results showed that Spiritual Leadership had a positive and significant effect on the lecturers' organizational commitment, Spiritual Leadership had a positive and significant effect on workplace spirituality, Spiritual Leadership had a positive and significant effect on spiritual survival, Workplace Spirituality had a positive and significant influence on the organizational commitment of lecturers, and Spiritual Survival was influential positive and significant towards organizational commitment of lecturers at  Private Universities in Medan City. In this study Workplace Spirituality and spiritual survival act as mediators

This study aims to determine the relationship between Islamic work ethics and the love of money, and was carried out with the participation of 500 tradesmen working in the Alanya district centre. It was determined from the research that there are positively significant correlations between the good, budget and power-success dimensions of the love of money and Islamic work ethic while no significant relationship was found with the evil dimension of the love of money. Furthermore, it was revealed that the perception of the Islamic work ethic changes according to marital status and the level of income.