Islamic universities play a role as one of the institutions producing qualified human resources to improve Islamic Financial Institutions.This study aims to test empirically how to improve lecturers’ performance through relational satisfaction, emotional bonding and Fastabiqul Khairat spirit. The population in this study was all lecturers of private Islamic universities in Central Java involving 150 respondents. The SPSS program was used to test the effect between the independent and dependent variables. The findings showed that there was positive and significant effect of relational satisfaction on emotional bonding. The positive and significant effect was also shown by relational satisfaction and Fastabiqul Khairat spirit on performance, but the positive effect was not significant indicated by emotional bonding on performance. These findings can be interpreted that the bonding created by relational satisfaction is not able to affect performance. This is allegedly due to the age factor of most respondents who are not productive anymore and bonding which occurred only limited to maintain their status and willingness to be in a comfort zone so as not to be able to pursue the demands of colleges which are increasing. Based on these conditions, organizations may improve performance by creating a working atmosphere and awareness that stimulate the spirit of Fastabiqul Khairat.

 

Keywords: Relational Satisfaction, Emotional Bonding, Fastabiqul Khairat, Performance