Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations

Weston, Beau; Demerath, N. J.; Hall, Peter Dobkin; Schmitt, Terry; Williams, Rhys H.

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“…Due to a lack of consensus in the academic community regarding classification of FBOs (De Vita & Wilson, 2001;Ebaugh et al, 2003;Jeavons, 1998;Smith & Sosin, 2001;Unruh, 2001), I categorized organizations as FBOs based on the organization's present-day self-identification as faith-based or secular, which was confirmed again orally during the interview process. Because of the underrepresentation of non-Christian FBOs in the USAID 2005 VolAg report, additional participants were contacted in each country based on religious identity.…”

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Staff Perceptions of the Benefits of Religion in Health and Human Services Nonprofits: Evidence from International Development

Flanigan

2009

Journal of Health and Human Services Administration

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Some argue faith-based organizations (FBOs) provide desirable moral or spiritual components to health and human service provision, and that services are more effective due to staff's more supportive approach. However, the majority of research has been conducted in the United States, and has focused on the experiences of Christian FBOs. This article examines the benefits that FBO staff in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, and Sri Lanka believe religious identity brings to the work of their organizations, based on interviews with more than 100 staff of Buddhist, Catholic, Druze, Orthodox Christian, Protestant Christian, Shiite Muslim, and Sunni Muslim FBOs, as well as secular NGOs. The interview data indicate that staff members from most of the religious traditions included in the study believe the faith orientation of their organization brings benefits to their service provision. However, these perceived benefits differ based on country context. Some of these benefits are similar to those often mentioned in the literature on FBOs in the United States; however, other benefits are quite different than those discussed in the US literature.

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Staff Perceptions of the Benefits of Religion in Health and Human Services Nonprofits: Evidence from International Development

Flanigan

2009

Journal of Health and Human Services Administration

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Knowledge Sharing in Catholic Organizations

Curado¹,

Graça²,

Oliveira

et al. 2021

International Journal of Knowledge Management

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This study examines knowledge sharing in Catholic organizations. The authors adopt Schein's organizational culture theory that facilitates, or inhibits, knowledge sharing in organizations. Thus, they address the phenomenon at the three levels: the artifacts, the norms and values, and the underlying assumptions. Considering the chosen settings, they study the contributions of individuals having taken vows, the organizational rituals, the significance, and the sense of community perceived by the organizational members. Data were gathered using a survey and were analyzed by using a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. The study provides the causal configurations of conditions that lead to tacit, explicit, and total knowledge sharing. They also offer the causal configurations of conditions that lead to the absence of each kind of knowledge sharing. Given that the qualitative results cannot be generalized, the study can still be replicated in organizations without restrictions.

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Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations

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Staff Perceptions of the Benefits of Religion in Health and Human Services Nonprofits: Evidence from International Development

Staff Perceptions of the Benefits of Religion in Health and Human Services Nonprofits: Evidence from International Development

Knowledge Sharing in Catholic Organizations

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