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Muslim group preaches integrity, excellence in the workplace
STRICT adherence to high moral principles and professional standards is as an essential condition for the attainment of excellence and realisation of lofty personal and corporate goals.
This was the consensus of speakers at a symposium organised by the Professional Department (Southern Region) of the Majlis Tajdeed Tadhamunil Muslimeen Association (MTTMA), which was held last weekend at the Western Hall of the Oyo State Government Secretariat in Ibadan.
The trio of Alhaji Kafaru Idowu, Human Resources Business Partner, Nigerian Eagle Flour Mills Limited; Professor Abdul Lateef Agbaje of the Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso and Alhaji AbdusSalam AbdurRazaq Awayewaserere, Director Public/Corporate Affairs, Voice of Nigeria (VON), gave talks at the event tagged “Celebration of Professional Icon and Professional Ethics Symposium” with the theme “Professional Ethics: Implication for Career Growth and Development.”
At the symposium, which drew various professionals from across the southern states of the country, the resource persons were unanimous in their description of honesty, truthfulness, honour, reliability and uprightness as attributes of forward-thinking individuals and traits prized by progressive organisations – commercial or otherwise.
They particularly urged Muslims to prioritise self-development and let their exploits and accomplishments in the workplace promote Islam.
Speaking on “Managing Ethical Challenges on the Path to Career Accomplishment,” Alhaji Idowu averred that “no matter how big or small an organisation is, values and ethics are important, because they promote positive personal and interpersonal behaviours.”
According to him, ethical behaviour among workers in an organisation ensures that the employees complete work with honesty and integrity.
He listed recognition and control inside and outside organisation as part of the reward for possessing firm principles in the workplace.
Alhaji Idowu advised all workers to be their best professional and social selves at all times and respect all stakeholders, irrespective of their nature, in the course of their career journeys, adding, however, that “a good dose of emotional intelligence, professionalism and focus is required to manage adversity.”
On his own part, Professor Agbaje spoke on “Gown-Town Personnel Management Model: The Role of the Ivory Tower in Creating and Maintaining an Ethically Healthy Workplace.”
The don underlined the imperativeness of freeing institutions of higher learning, especially universities, from favouritism, intimidation and victimisation, extortion, graft, sex for marks and admission and certificate racketeering for the attainment of ethically healthy workplace in Nigeria’s academic environment.
He stated that seeking knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim and called for better funding of education in the country for the proper training of responsible emerging leaders.
According to him, without a focused, creative and progressive gown – which symbolises scholars and students – the society is at the risk of being in perpetual retrogression because the gown represents its knowledge base and a measure of its advancement.
He urged Nigerian educational institutions to pursue excellent researches, generate knowledge and train quality manpower for nation building and advancement of mankind.
Alhaji AbdurRazaq Awayewaserere, in his own presentation, urged Muslims to see their professional practices as an opportunity to establish faith in the workplace and as such, they must strive to be the best versions of themselves.
To survive the odds in the society, he said the faithful must deepen the levels of their faith, intellectual capacity, professional competence, hard work and personal morality.
Alhaji AbdurRazaq Awayewaserere appealed to all Muslims in the professions to always remember that their actions and inaction will reflect on Islam and that they owe a duty to the Muslim community in their environments as a privileged lot.
A high point of the event was the presentation of the 2019 Professional Icon Award to Professor Ahmed Adedeji, the Director-General of Foresight Institute of Research and Translation, Ibadan.
The programme was also attended by Professor Mondiu Durowoju of LAUTECH, Mr Olawale Abdullah of the Oyo State Ministry of Justice, Dr Ahmad Osundina, a medical consultant with the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo State and Mr Oladepo Yusuf, an internal auditor with Trustbond Mortgage Bank Plc, who are both key officers of the professional group.
Other personalities in attendance were Pharmacist Ganiyu Abideen of Jericho Chest Hospital, Ibadan; Mr AbdSemiu Odenike, Director of Works, Fountain University, Osogbo; Dr Busari AbdWasi, a consultant nephrologist at Gbagada Hospital and Managing Ditrector, Solace Hospital, Lagos; Mr Kadiri Odelade and Mr Kamoru Salaudeen, both of Fountain University, Osogbo.
Muslim group preaches integrity, excellence in the workplace
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