alee ANI Ce) Se Fr = fe, y -% af) py ots : a r -—~SBetter ‘ WheHRD Human Resource Management in Qur’an & Seerah Syed Kazim shaping the civilization of the world. Let it be in the field of modern civilization, astronomy, chemistry, medical science, social science, art, culture, etc. The Qur'an not only talks about science, economics, social, political, but it also talks about Human Resource Management. Human Resource Management (HRM) is the strategic ‘and coherent approach to the management of an ‘organization's most valued assets, which are the people. Human Resource Management is an art of procuring, developing and maintaining competent workforce to achieve the goals in an effective and efficient manner. Human Resource Management is a very vast field. It comprises of various activities like human resource planning, recruitment, Staffing, Performance Appraisal, Training and Induction, Promotion and Transfers, HRD, Work. Environment, compensation, employee & labour relations, etc The Qur’an in a verse talks about the two qualities which should be taken into consideration while recruiting a person. Allah (swt) tells in the Qur'an: One of the women ‘said, ‘O my father, hire him. Indeed, the best one you can hire is the strong and the trustworthy’ (Al-Qasas, 28:26). This verse Is extracted from the story of Prophet Musa (as) and the father of the women is Shoaib (as). When Shoaib (as) wanted to hire Musa (as), the two qualities which he looked into was his strength (skill) and trustworthiness. If we do a general analysis, we will realize that strength (skilled) and trustworthiness are the only two qualities which should be there in the employees for the company to work efficiently and to be successful and prosper in the future. Words like Human Resource and Recruitment are relatively modern terms which were coined in 1960s but we will be astonished to know that Qur’an has already spoken about the recruitment and the qualities which should be taken Into consideration while recruiting people. ‘The present recruitment system looks into various qualities while recruiting a person, Integrity, Dedication, Magnanimity, Humility, Openness, Creativity, Fairness, Assertiveness, Sense of Humor, are some of them. But the ‘Qur'an has simplified and summarized it in just two words, 1420 years ago. ‘The Qur'an also teaches us about delegation and ‘accountability. We learn about delegation when Musa (as) delegates his work to Harun (as) and we learn about accountability when Musa (as) after coming back asks [= has played a very important and critical role Harun (a3) for what he did, By this we also learn that with authority also comes responsibility and accountability Leadership in HRis a very important aspect. A leader is a person who influences a group of people towards the achievement of a goal but an excellent leader is one who creates leaders. Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) not only influenced the people for the achievement of the goal but. he also created great leaders who could carry on the work after his departure. He was both a task oriented and relationship oriented leader He was a person who also all excellent in terms of Human Resource Development. In the companionship of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh), many people grew to great heights from nothing. Bilal (ra) from a slave to chief secretary, Zubair (ra) from a street fighter toa brave soldier, ‘Musab bin Umair (ra) from a soft spoken person to a chief negotiator, Hamza (ra) from a hunter to a battalion commander, Umar (ra) from just an angry man to a great statesman and Ayesha (ra) from a house wife to a narrator, medical practitioner, statistician etc. ‘One important aspect of HR is motivation and Prophet ‘Muhammed (pbuh) was a very good motivator. When in a battle Prophet Muhammed (obuh) sees Zubair (ra) with a turban He (pbuh) motivated Zubair (ra) by telling him, “Zubair, today angels too have come on with red turbans to. fight”. He (pbuh) motivated Ali (ra) by telling him, “I am from Ali (as) and Ali (as) is from Me.” He (pbuh) motivated ‘Abu Bakar (ra) by saying “Had | made anyone a friend other than Allah (swt), it would have been Abu Bakar (ra)”. He (pbuh) also said about him in his last sermon, “No one has been a better companion for me than Abu Bakar (ra)”. He (pbuh) also used to assign the right person, the right job. For example, He (pbuh) send Musab bin Umair to do Dawah ‘as he was very polite, He (pbuh) told Zaid ibn Thabit (ra) to learn many languages fore.g, Hebrew which he did within a fortnight. We have to utilize our HR skills and change people iin a positive and constructive direction; a change to the route which will lead to success in this world and in the hereafter; a change that may lead to Peace and Salvation. ‘We can find the origin and base of all the knowledge which is available in the world today, in Qur'an and the Sunnah. {As Allah (swt) says in the Qur’an: Have you not considered how Allah presents an example, 0 good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches [high] in the sky? It produces its fruit al the time, by permission ofits Lord, And Allah presents examples for the people that perhaps they will be reminded. (Qur’an 14:24-25)u = THE COMPANION January 2017 ED