Investigating and Analyzing the Characteristics of Managers for Directing Human Resources in the Beam of the Metaphor of Light in the Holy Quran

The success of organizations depends largely on leadership. In Islamic perspective, the ultimate goal of guidance is to bring humans to perfection. The components and guiding elements are managers and organizational structures as guidance and human resources as guided. In the detailed description of the Qur'an, the goals of the organizations will be met when there is an alignment between these elements.

The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the characteristics of organization managers using the light metaphor in the Holy Quran.

In this article, a thematic research method was used in the Holy Quran. In this method, after defining the keywords of the research, the verses containing the word Noor (light) and its families were extracted from the Qur'an and the concepts in question were deduced from the above verses.

Some of the features described for managers in this study were in common with previous research but in many others there were significant differences.

The results of this study were presented as five characteristics as follows: ideological traits, personality traits, structural traits, behavioral traits, and goal orientation traits.