Description
Various articles explore the importance of human relationships, how especially to protect and maintain them in business and the workplace.
Kim Sawers explores justice and forgiveness, helpfully identifying the end process of reconciliation and restoration of relationships alongside the aspects of accountability and justice. Peter Heslam continues his exploration of just grace, forgiveness and accountability, exploring the place of apology and the offer of forgiveness in repairing relationships.
Jim Griffiths emphasises the positive nature of honesty and integrity in growing a thriving business. He advocates that managers have good personal relationships as employees perform best when encouraged and praised. He recounts his own sense of calling to be God’s ambassador in his situation.
Christopher Jensen presents a reflection on moral drift in tech-driven enterprises drawing lessons from the development of PickMe, a professional support for taxi drivers in Sri Lanka. Emphasis on customer ratings led to drivers compromising standards. The author sees lessons for the church as well as for businesses, especially as technologies grow more dominant.
Geoff Moore’s obituary for Alastair MacIntyre is an informative and challenging assessment of MacIntyre’s presentation of virtues in all relationships and activities of business, while Richard Higginson’s tribute to Charles Handy observes the valuable contribution he made in challenging the role of companies to serve not only their shareholders but also their stakeholders.
Philip Yan presents a challenge to the secular-sacred divide. He offers a compelling exploration of the place of orthopraxis alongside orthodoxy – doing the right things as well as believing the right things.
Richard Higginson presents a review article of Sabbath as Resilience: Spiritual Refreshment for a Stressed-Out World. He concludes that the Sabbath is a precious gift, but also a task that needs to be constantly reconsidered as both our society and our personal circumstances change and evolve.
Peter Warburton reviews The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer reflecting that the parable of the serviceberry “is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times.”
Phil Jump in discussing the untimely death of Liverpool FC striker Diogo Jota offers some insightful and helpful reflections on dealing with bereavement in the workplace, which needs to be expressed in ways that reflect that context.
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