Read Christine Hoover’s article Three Lessons from the Farmer About Faith on John Piper’s website at https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/three-lessons-from-the-farmer-about-faith. How might you apply each of these lessons in your own life and how might a manager in the industry you are researching apply these lessons? Hoover, C. (2016, Mar 16). Three Lessons from the Farmer About Faith. DesiringGod. … Read more
Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest. – Ecclesiastes11:4 There are two extremes managers can fall into. One type believes that you need lots of information to make a good decision. This manager gathers data, facts, and information and continually evaluates his or her beliefs … Read more
Read Jack Wellman’s “What Does Virtue Mean? A Biblical Definition of Virtue or Virtuous” and OpenBible.info’s Scripture quotes on virtues. Choose an AI platform and query what is virtue in the Bible. How is the response similar or different from the information provided in the Patheos and OpenBible’s sites? OpenBible.info. 100 Bible Verses about Virtue. … Read more
Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the … Read more
To help you formulate a response you may read the following article from the Institute of Faith, Work, and Economics for reflection. It is “Sending A Message to Business: A Christian Perspective On Creative Destruction” by Taylor Barkley, March 8, 2013, https://tifwe.org/sending-a-message-to-business-a-christian-perspective-on-creative-destruction/ How does Genesis 2:8-9, 15-17 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2%3A8-9%2C+15-17+&version=NIV) and Genesis 3:17-19 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3%3A17-19&version=NIV) If you are not … Read more
Read the story of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25:31-46 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A31-46&version=NIV). Giving food and water are part of the Christian vocation and is rooted in the creation account we discussed earlier. What implications might this have on the role of industries such as textiles (think of cotton and wool), agriculture, and water … Read more
Misinformation and biased fact interpretation also foster divisive behavior. A narrative disseminated on social media may possess a deceptive headline or an incendiary tone, encouraging individuals to make hasty assessments. In the absence of a comprehensive reading of the article or a grasp of the context, they may disseminate a distorted view that misrepresents the … Read more
The “strong culture” school holds that organizations with well-established and clear cultural values perform better; (2) the “adaptive culture” school holds that organizations that can adapt their cultures to environmental changes have a competitive advantage; and (3) the “fit” school holds that a corporate culture’s effectiveness depends on how well it aligns with external and … Read more
Heavy pressures on company managers to meet or beat performance targets. Personnel find themselves scrambling to meet the quarterly or annual sales and profit expectations of investors and financial analysts or to hit other ambitious performance targets. They feel pressured to do whatever it takes to protect their reputation for delivering good results
Some of costs associated with unethical behavior in organizations are government fines and penalties, legal and investigative costs incurred by the company, customer defections, civil penalties arising from class-action lawsuits and other litigation, the costs of providing remedial education and ethics training to company personnel, lost of reputation, the cost to shareholders in the form of … Read more