Impact of Mentoring and Social Support on Seamless Integration of Gen Z into Islamic Culture and Values Adoption through the Moderating Role of Individual's Willingness to Adopt: A study on Gen Z Working in Islamic Institutions of Pakistan
Keywords:
Mentoring, Social Support, Islamic Culture Adoption, Islamic Values Adoption, Willingness to Adopt, Generation Z, Organizational Socialization, Islamic InstitutionsAbstract
The present study investigates the impact of mentoring and social support on Islamic culture adoption and Islamic values adoption among Generation Z employees working in Islamic institutions in Pakistan, while also examining the moderating role of individual willingness to adopt. Grounded in Social Learning Theory, Organizational Socialization Theory, and the Theory of Planned Behavior, the study adopts a positivist philosophy and a deductive, quantitative, cross-sectional research design. Data were collected from 400 Generation Z employees through a structured questionnaire and analyzed using statistical techniques to test the proposed hypotheses. The findings reveal that mentoring significantly enhances both Islamic culture adoption and Islamic values adoption by facilitating role modeling, guidance, and knowledge transfer. Similarly, social support from supervisors and colleagues plays a vital role in strengthening employees’ cultural integration and ethical alignment within Islamic institutions. Furthermore, individual willingness to adopt was found to significantly strengthen the relationships between mentoring, social support, Islamic culture adoption, and Islamic values adoption, highlighting the importance of psychological readiness in the socialization process. The study concludes that successful integration of Generation Z employees into Islamic institutions depends on a combination of organizational mechanisms and individual motivational factors. The findings offer important theoretical contributions to generational workforce studies and Islamic organizational behavior, while also providing practical implications for enhancing mentoring systems, workplace support structures, and employee development strategies in value-based organizations.
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