The Social Responsibility for Islamic Banks: Jordan Islamic Bank for Finance and Investment as a Model

Abstract

This study aimed to assess of the awareness level of Jordanian Islamic Bank for Investment and finance management for fields of the social responsibility application from the perspective of their employees, the study population consists of all employees in Islamic banks, due to the large size of the study population so the researcher resorted to choose a stratified random sample of employees. The final number of sample totaled (60) employees. The study found some results, among them the following:

a. The descriptive analysis results showed that the assessment of the study sample of the perception level of Jordanian Islamic Bank for Investment and finance management for fields of the social responsibility application was (positive) and (high) degree, from the perspective of employees in the mentioned bank.

b. There were no statistically significant differences at the significance level (α = 0.05), between responses means of the study sample members about fields of the social responsibility application in Jordanian Islamic Bank for Investment and Finance, accordingly to some personal and functional characteristics which are (gender, age groups, educational level, number of experience years, and monthly income).

Keywords: Social responsibility, Islamic banks, fields of the social responsibility application, Jordan.