ABSTRACT

Sharia Bank in Indonesia especially Bank Pembiayaan Rakyat Syari’ah (BPRS) will not

automatically develop by sharia label only, but it needs to pay attention and receive the

dynamic external changes, so that this condition makes organization has to have ability

to adapt with external environment. It is therefore, aim of this study to reveal the

simultaneously effect of the implementation of Islamic work ethic, organizational

culture, and spiritual leadership toward employee’s attitude to face the changes in

organization through strengthening on organizational commitment and job involvement

as stimulation factors. Population of this research is 155 BPRS directors in Indonesia.

Data is collected by sending questionnaires to respondents through post and interview

with some of the directors in Central Java use convenience sampling method. Analysis

technique used is Structural Eqaution Modelling (SEM) with VPLS software. The

result of this study shows that there is a direct relationship between Islamic work ethic

and job involvement, between Islamic work ethic, organizational culture, spiritual

leadership and organizational commitment, between job involvement and attitude

toward changes in cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions, between

organizational commitment and attitude toward changes in affective dimension. New

finding in this study is Islamic work ethic is indirectly affect to attitude toward changes,

organizational commitment influencing the attitude toward changes in affective

dimension only, job involvement affects attitude toward changes in all dimensions

(cognitive, affective, and behavioral), so that job involvement stripe is need to sprout up

the attitude toward changes in organization. The implication, management needs to

develop Islamic work ethic to increase job involvement so that can bring up the attitude

toward changes in all dimensions (cognitive, affective, behavioral), and management

has to develop Islamic work ethic, spiritual leadership and organizational leadership to

increase organizational commitment, so that can bring up the attitude toward changes

even though just in affective dimension only.

Key words: Islamic Work Ethic, Organizational culture, Spiritual Leadership, Job

Involvement, Organizational Commitment, Attitude toward Changes