Enlarging the Conversation

Herman, Stewart W.

doi:10.5840/10.2307/3857294

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“…7, No. 2, March 1997), for example, has been devoted to religion and business ethics -an issue described as ''enlarging the conversation'' by exploring the inclusion of religious approaches in discussions of business ethics (Herman, 1997). This special issue included articles on Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, and Evangelical perspectives.…”

Section: Recent Developments In Linking Business and Religious Faithmentioning

confidence: 98%

Religious Intensity, Evangelical Christianity, and Business Ethics: An Empirical Study

2004

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Research on the relationship between religious commitment and business ethics has produced widely varying results and made the impact of such commitment unclear. This study presents an empirical investigation based on a questionnaire survey of business managers and professionals in the United States yielding a database of 1234 respondents. Respondents evaluated the ethical acceptability of 16 business decisions. Findings varied with the way in which the religion variable was measured. Little relationship between religious commitment and ethical judgment was found when responses were compared on the basis of broad faith categories -Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, other religions, and no religion. However, respondents who indicated that religious interests were of high or moderate importance to them demonstrated a higher level of ethical judgment (less accepting of unethical decisions) than others in their evaluations. Evangelical Christians also showed a higher level of ethical judgment.

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Section: Recent Developments In Linking Business and Religious Faithmentioning

confidence: 98%

Religious Intensity, Evangelical Christianity, and Business Ethics: An Empirical Study

2004

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“…4 Weaver and Agle (2002) also point out that in view of the limited amount of research thus far on the impact of religion on ethical behaviour in organizations, much future research in this field will need to be of a qualitative, concept-and theory-building nature. 5 See Herman (1997) for an introduction to the similarities and differences between western religions. 6 The spearman's rho of the correlation between the average score on these five religious aspects and the number of dilemmas is 0.58 (p value of 0.013).…”

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confidence: 99%