Quality of Islamic Leadership and Organizational Performance within the Takaful Industry in Malaysia: A Conceptual Study

Successful organizations represent a key ingredient for nations around the globe. Although a substantial body ofresearch has focused on the predictors of organizational performance, studies involve its predictors within thecontext of developing Muslim countries like Malaysia is rather limited. This study aims to contribute theunderstanding of Islamic leadership qualities concept in the developing countries through the exploration ofTakaful performance in Malaysia. The phenomenon of Islamic leadership qualities and performance of theselected Takaful industry leaders will examine through the perspective of literacy coaches within their real-lifesetting using multiple sources of evidence. Thus, multiple case study method is suitable and will use in this study.Islamic Leadership Theory will extend by emphasizing factors that contribute to the success of organizationalperformance. The study expects that Islamic leaders will bring the organizations closer to make improvement inmeeting the goal set. Furthermore, an increase in organizational performance will effect positive economicgrowth and enhance employees’ motivation to perform better in future. The anticipate findings will reveal thatthe organizational performance can be enhanced by stimulating the quality of Islamic leadership. It gives an ideato managerial that Islamic leadership qualities act as a tool in helping the organizations to continue interact withstakeholders, establishes new and strong partnerships, identify future opportunities and develop the capabilitiesto increase organizations performance.