The Role of Environment in Organizational Behavior from the Perspective of the Quran

Organizational behavior is the systematic study aimed at understanding the causes of behaviors, improving predictions, guiding and controlling with the purpose of revealing important realities in relationships and creating changes in undesirable behaviors. The necessity of understanding the influence of the turbulent and dynamic environment on organizational behavior in this age of communications and information, and significant technological advancements, the emergence of transboundary organizations, and complex organizations, as well as the importance of speed as a competitive advantage and improving flexibility, has become clearer than ever. This research, with fundamental and applied objectives, examines the issue from the perspective of the Quran, using a descriptive-analytical-inferential method and content analysis to clarify the viewpoint of Sepahar Vahiani. The findings indicate that in the Quran, not only attention is paid to the influence of the environment on organizational behavior, but also, with a broader view than contemporary management science, its implications are challenged in the areas of human, organization, and environment perspectives, while expanding the scope of this science, it emphasizes particular attention to the active, dynamic, and preventive interaction of human and organizational entities with the environment. The divine revelation emphasizes the role of the environment in perceptions, decision-making, education and learning, identity formation, and organizational culture; however, contrary to systemic and deterministic management, it does not accept human enslavement to the environment and, moreover, does not consider environmental factors limited to factors such as economic, technological, social, cultural, and political, but also raises and considers transcendental and metaphysical factors.