The relationship between responsibility and leader's effectiveness: A perspective from the holy Qur'an

The present research aims at empirically revealing the leadership concepts from the holyQur'an. There are many studies conducted on leadership but few of them took into account the religious aspects of leadership especially from the Qur'an as a source of knowledge. According to the Qur'an, the concept of Taqwa, as a characteristic of Motaqeen, has been knownto have two distinct components, that is, Spirituality and Responsibility. This study tries to examine the relationship between the second component i.e. responsibility and leader's effectiveness. A cross-sectional field study was carried out in which responsibility was a self-constructed measurement while leadership effectiveness was constructed from existing scales in the literature. Multiple regression and hierarchal regression techniques using SPSS were used to test the hypotheses utilizing sample of 206 companies. The results show with the exception of forgiveness, all dimensions of responsibility were found to be positively related to leadership effectiveness.