دور السلطة الاتحادية لتنمية الأراضي بوصفها منظمة مغيرة في تنمية المناطق الريفية الفقيرة في ماليزيا

This study discussed the role of FELDA in developing Malaysian rural areas, its contribution in eliminating poverty and achieving economic, social and cultural transformation in those areas. Also it clarified the extent of FELDA's success in realization and materialization of the concept of transformational organization which adopts the Islamic perspective of development. A descriptive analytical methodology has been used in clarifying the Islamic perspective of development, explaining the concept of the transformational organization, deriving norms to measure the effectiveness of transformational organization in converting the Islamic perspective of development from its conceptuality to a measurable human reality and to evaluate its efficiency in meeting the purposes of the mankind existence on the earth planet. The study applied same methodology to review FELDA's history, describe its present, highlight its projects to develop Malaysian rural areas, and analyze its performance results in these projects. Through its findings, this study identified the qualities that make FELDA a role model of transformational organization that successfully accomplished the desired transformation in the rural communities of Malaysia. Among these qualities are: • Its smart response to the change in its environment. • Empowering its human resources to participate in the formulation of its vision, and raising their awareness regarding the impacts of their roles on the organization's performance and results. • Enhancing its performance through adding a continual development. • Re-characterization of its values, vision, mission, strategic direction, objectives, roles, functions, human resources and organizational structure. • Empowerment and capacity-building of its human resources. • Utilization of its successful financial growth to support settler's social development programs. • Balancing between fulfilling its social responsibility and maximizing its profits to meet owners and shareholders expectations. • Creating a supportive environment that cultivates freedom, dignity, unity, happiness, security, creativity and prosperity. • Accomplishing continual positive change in the mindset of settlers, their way of thinking, emotions, behaviors and relations which led accumulatively to achieve the Islamic development that meet the purposes of the mankind existence on the earth planet. The study concludes with recommendations that may help to promote FELDA's areas of strengths and heal areas of weaknesses.