Managing People as an Amanah: A Muslim Leader's Guide to Rethinking HR
Human beings are not resources to be allocated, optimized, and eventually written off. They are an amanah — a trust Allah placed under our care, and one we’ll be questioned about. In this article, I walk through every stage of the employee lifecycle — hiring, compensation, onboarding, performance, spirituality, and offboarding — and ask what changes when we manage people from the Islamic worldview of amanah (trust) rather than a resource.
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