Christian Scripture And Its Effect On The Quality Of The Actions And Reactions That Are Taken By Management

Wayne Grudem, the author of, “Business for the Glory of God”, states that there are many ways that a Christian can use business to glorify God. Some of the main ways are Ownership, Employment, Profit, Money, Productivity and Borrowing and Lending. All of these things can bring glory to God in the way they mirror the nature that is God and His provision for man. God gave humans ways to provide food, clothing and shelter, not only for themselves, but for others also. He intended us to be a component of a community, one with an economic system for sustainability. The capability to govern one’s own business and to set into view the mandates in that it is vital to the well being of any sturdy economy. Today’s marketplace has consumers that have

Countries disintegrate, place of worship and corporation fail, people become dysfunctional, descendants lose their direction, and mankind drift from God on behalf of one distracting reason; insufficiency of leadership. These disappointments are often for the reason that of the deficiency of instruction, appropriate leadership, and misperception on what Christian leadership subsists and exactly how that leadership is pertinent to every component of professional and personal life. From a Christian worldview perspective, Psalm 112:5 explains, “A good man deals graciously and lends; He will guide his affairs with discretion” (NKJ). A Christian manager should always keep in mind that bounteousness and admiration for God, demonstrates that one has placed trust in Him, and not our material possessions.

Since our country has a great diversity, employers may decide to hire their employees from a great variety of countries and different religious backgrounds. In an ideal work environment, the religious beliefs of a given employee, or the employer, do not have a conflict. Each individual is free to believe as he or she chooses and, as the work gets done right, neither of them will encounter difficulty with religion. However, in the real world, a good bit of issues can arise to create problems. An employee and employer may discuss, or even argue over, religious principles. What is more, religion is not always simply a matter of belief. The faithful practice their religion through various actions – styles of dres, manner of keeping or wearing one’s hair, follow certain diets, trying to recruit others to their faith, fasting, praying, avoiding certain language or behavior, and observing certain religious holidays.

There has been many discussions on whether or not organizations in today’s global business environment can operate based on Christian values and principles. I think it’s not common but there are many global companies that were founded on Christian principles. One in particular is Walmart and Tyson food (which is the world’s largest food distribution company). They hire chaplains to actually minister to those that want their spiritual growth. They give largely to charities and organizations, and programs. I believe you can definitely operate off of Christian beliefs but I believe it’s important that you cannot discriminate those that do have Christian beliefs. It can be very difficult to be a Christian based company, especially in the global market due to other beliefs, you could easily lose potential opportunities and business deals if spiritual beliefs conflicts with others.

“Organizational Management and Leadership: A Christian Perspective” states accountability is the final stage in implementing strategy and “in this stage, the organization monitors and evaluates policies, programs, and activities. The company must also analyze compliance with merit systems and identify and monitor improvements during this stage” (Satterlee, 2013, p. 205). Dictionary.com defines accountability as “the state of being accountable, liable, or answerable” (2018).

Cultural differences in the workplace can sometimes become a challenge in the work environment. In order to facilitate these differences, there must be some form of cultural awareness. Cultural awareness can help employees face the challenge of responding to individuals with different religions in the workplace, expose religious practices, and eliminate stereotyping in the workplace. Awareness of religions, and the beliefs associated with different religions, can be accomplished in many ways, such as training courses, workshops or company handouts (Thomas Kochan, 2003, p. 4). Companies must embrace multiculturalism and diversity.

Marina thanks for posting such a truthful and relatable post this week! I agree that this is all easier to type out and talk about than to actually use it in daily worklife. I feel that there are multiple things I can try to do at work to follow these principles more closely. For example, I feel that I can start to incorporate Biblical stewardship by my actions towards others as well as my work in itself. This can be easily done by having integrity in my work. I think often it is so easy to cut corners and while no one might see the impact until much later when it is found we have truly tarnished our image as a Christian. If coworkers are skeptical about God or religion and we present both in a negative image we are doing a large disfavor to

One common unethical business that involves all these qualities is Ponzi scheme. Ponzi scheme is the deception of swindling money from investors, with the promise of a large return for a small investment.

One familiar debate in fundamental Christianity is whether or not the commerce, trade, and business practices, by its embryonic nature, are inherently evil. Wayne Gruden, a Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies, presents the idea, in Business for the Glory of God (2003), that even though commercial transactions have the propensity for evilness, “the aspects of business activities [can] provide unique opportunities for glorifying God” (pp. 11-17). While the current climate demonstrates corporate characteristics such as ownership, productivity, profit, and employment (to name a few) as mechanisms for greed and egocentrism, Wayne maintains the premise that these characteristics, God’s gifts, are provided to the human race and,

A Ponzi scheme is an illegal business practice in which new investor’s money is used to make payments to earlier investors. In many Ponzi schemes, the fraudsters focus on attracting new money to make promised payments to earlier-stage investors and to use for personal expenses, instead of engaging in any legitimate investment activity. The returns are repaid out of new investors’ principal, but not from profits. This can continue as long as new investors line up with cash, and old investors don’t try to withdraw too much of their money at once.

Faith integration in business has been a hot topic in recent years. Many researchers and critics have come to the conclusion that religious values have major impact on organizations and in the workplace. According to Alan G. Walker, in his scholarly journal, The Relationship Between the Integration of Faith and Work with Life and Job Outcomes, about 9 out of 10 Americans express belief in a higher divine being and almost 45% claim to have awareness of their faith in the workplace. (Walker, 2012) In this case, Christian value is examined to see how it is incorporated in businesses. Faith integration can be defined by “living out your faith in the workplace”. (Marlee, n.d.) On the corporate level, faith integration means incorporating Christian values into the company value. This does not mean a company that integrates faith in the workplace has to become a “Christian company”. Furthermore, any company name with “Christian” in place can seem exclusive to non-Christian consumers. Faith integration also does not mean the work environment has to be heavily emphasized with scriptures or filled with Christian workers. Christians are called to be salt and light in the world, which is a concept that is applicable in the business environment.

Today there are over 900 religious employee resource groups, according to the International Coalition of Workplace Ministries (Cañas & Sondak, 2010). These affinity groups can help encourage religious understanding by offering panel discussions that educate employees on their beliefs. By allowing open discussion, answering religious questions and creating an open, welcoming religious environment in the workplace employees can better relate to one another through shared religious principles (Cañas & Sondak, 2010). When looking at the business case for diversity, not asking employees to hide their faith at work allows for greater productivity, and time and energy focused on business results (Cañas

Fraud, specifically corporate fraud, is a common occurrence with a tremendous amount of precedent — stories of high-level corporate executives committing and encouraging fraud in the name of competition are constantly surfacing. A few of the more well-known perpetrators of fraud include Jordan Belfort, Michael Milken, and Bernie Madoff. Corporate fraud is often thought of as a shady, or unscrupulous, act committed by an ethically-challenged millionaire, with a tremendous appetite for money and power, sitting comfortably in their corner office. The same person could be described as being a, “twisted Robin Hood who takes from the rich and gives to himself and his merry band of brokers” as former Forbes staff writer Roula Khalaf famously

According to Zigarelli (2008), “there are some powerful obstacles that prevent our Sunday responses from becoming our Monday reality. Some of these are work environment obstacles, others are internal to us, but each obstacle relegates God’s workplace priorities to the back seat”. After reading this study, there are many factors that come to mind while trying to maintain my faith in the workplace on a consistent basis. I would like to strive for excellence at all times, embrace my failures, supports others, and to remember that having my job is a gift from God. Often I deal with many obstacles and tough tasks on a daily basis at the workplace. I find myself complaining, worrying about deadlines, and what input my coworkers have done to help accomplish the job. These are examples of the barriers that have stood in my way while pursuing to realize what really matters at work. Love is the highest value of the Christian faith. Spreading that love and having respect will help overcome those powerful obstacles in the workplace.

Such sincere belief and intolerance against one’s faith becomes a very threatening subject and can become the cause of a major strike in an organization. The core of any successful organization is the