Increasing market pressures force companies to implement drastic organizational changes in order to remain competitive. Budget decreases, reduction efforts, and similar changes create significant morale and job-satisfaction concerns. This study assesses the effects of budget reductions and other organizational changes on the morale of hospital employees. A survey dealing with employee perceptions of stress, workload, and performance was given to hospital employees. Not surprisingly, the survey found that morale problems resulted from the organizational changes. Employees' gender and job classification showed little significant effect on the survey results, while respondents' length of employment with the organization influenced the results slightly. The findings provide information useful for dealing with challenges of employee satisfaction, morale, and trust during times of budget limitations.
VERY EARLY IN OUR CHRISTIAN education, we learn that human beings are somehow special among all things created because, according to Genesis 1:26-28, we have been made in the image of God. Yet, this claim has puzzled theologians throughout the Church's history. What exactly does it mean to say that humans bear or reflect the image of God? In the past, theologians have suggested that the answer lies in discerning how we are different from the animals in creation. Perhaps it is our ability to reason, our spiritual nature, or our ability to make moral judgments that makes human beings like God. Other interpreters have looked specifically at Gen 1:26-28 and proposed that the theme of dominion as a task assigned to humanity by God provides the key to understanding what it means to live as a reflection of God. Coming directly from the text, this is an appealing explanation. However, it leaves us with the difficult task of determining how humans ought to exercise dominion. It leaves us with the task of deciding whether a particular method for ruling the earth most clearly reflects the divine will and, therefore, the divine image. In every age, these questions, in one form or another, assert themselves, and answers are proposed. The answers that are argued most convincingly and, therefore, lived by faith communities have a tremendous impact on the health of God's creation, for they influence the way humans treat one another and the world. Today the question of what it means to live as a reflection of God's image is as important as ever. And yet, the human community is divided; no consensus exists regarding how humans should behave and specifically how they should treat one another.
Fortress, Minneapolis, 2006. 256 pp. $25.00. ISBN 0-80063793-3. THIS BOOK IS PART of a bold new effort to reorientChristian theology to our religiously plural world through the discipline of comparative theology. Christians, who make up one-third of the human family, cannot ignore the other religions of the world and still maintain their claim to universality. Secular ideologies have not been the answer, because they relativize the truth claims of all religions. John Thatamanil argues that the dialogue with non-Christian religions springs not from ideas outside Christianity, but from ethical imperatives of the gospel: love of neighbor and the prohibition against bearing false witness.To show love of neighbors is to be concerned with who they are and what they believe. It is to be open to their existence as people of faith. We must shun the caricatures and falsehoods that polemic religion and chauvinistic cultures have fed us about the non-Christian religions. It then becomes possible to listen to one another and discover how the mystery of human existence is approached from our different faith commitments. Thatamanil brings into dialogue the Advaitic Hinduism of Sankara and the existential Christian theology of Paul Tillich. It is a bold leap from the eighth century to the twentieth century.What makes this possible is that Thatamanil respects the truth claims of both partners to the dialogue as they illumine the human predicament from which we must be saved. He is not arguing the superiority of one position against the other, nor is he claiming that everyone believes the same thing. Rather, as a physician of the human spirit, he compares these very different traditions to find how they characterize human lostness and
This article considers the story of Dinah in Genesis 34 to be a story primarily about masculinities. Therefore, it applies insights from masculinities studies to the negotiations that occur between the various men involved in Dinah’s life. Identifying which characters exemplify particular types of masculinities is only part of the investigation. The analysis also attempts to evaluate the hegemonic and subordinate masculinities that are displayed and eventually concludes that every masculinity enacted is less than desirable.
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