Developing a Workplace Mental-Health Profiling Database System Integrated with Islamic Values

Workplace mental-health profiling systems promise early intervention and psychosocial risk mitigation, yet in employment settings they introduce acute hazards of managerial surveillance, coercion, discrimination, and moral misclassification. This article develops a conceptual model for workplace mental-health profiling within Muslim-majority contexts by integrating Islamic ethical principles with Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory and privacy-by-design governance. It contends that Islamic ethics must function not as ornamental religious rhetoric, but as an institutional constraint on corporate power. Foundational concepts—specifically tawḥīd (divine unity), fiṭrah (primordial nature), iḥsān (moral excellence), amānah (fiduciary trust), sirr (confidentiality), and ʿadl (justice)—reorient profiling from individual risk categorisation toward structural psychosocial risk governance, employee dignity, confidentiality, and institutional accountability. Applying design-science conceptual modelling, this normative framework is operationalised into explicit system parameters: voluntary participation, enforceable non-retaliation guarantees, strict data minimisation, complete insulation from performance appraisals, aggregate-only reporting, and the absolute prohibition of spiritual data extraction.