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Title Belief and organization / edited by Peter Case, Heather Höpfl, and Hugo Letiche
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Contents Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Peter Case, Heather Höpfl, and Hugo Letiche -- Belief / Alphonso Lingis -- Philosophy as activity / Hugo Letiche & Jean-Luc Moriceau -- Buddhist belief and living ethics : challenging business ethics / Peter Case and René Brohm -- Organising a Buddhist way / Dian Marie Hosking -- Islam, belief system, and organization / David Weir -- Catholicism : incarnation and remembrance of the body / Heather Höpfl -- Waging a war against oneself : busy-ness, contemplation and the mystery of being / David Torevell -- Agency without agents : exploring the relationship between identity and ethics / John Roberts -- Trading belief : moments of exchange / Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley -- Sustainability and the spiritual work ethic / Emma Bell, John Cullen and Scott Taylor -- Belief, parrhesia and practice / Hugo Letiche
Summary Belief and Organization examines the alternative belief systems which contemporary organizational actors live by and through which they seek to find meaning within the dominant (neo)capitalist social order. The widespread search for personal meaning reflects what Charles Taylor refers to as the 'massive subjective turn of modern culture' and a corresponding drive to locate subjective 'sources of significance. Such subjectivist strategies enable people to disregard, resist or subvert the globalizing capitalist imperatives that would otherwise have them become worshippers of the new human gods. Alternative belief systems take a variety of forms and contributors to this volume represent a range of positions - some religious or spiritual, others secular, which are presently being adopted and acted on in European and US workplaces. The authors of this work have deliberately courted an international framing of the issues in order to better reflect trends in organizational conduct in the Western hemisphere. By this heterodox approach, they intentionally seek to spread the net to embrace a wider set of religious and non-religious beliefs and affiliations
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Subject Organizational behavior -- Religious aspects.
Business ethics.
Organizational theory & behaviour.
Management & management techniques.
Business ethics & social responsibility.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
Business and Management.
Business ethics
Organizational behavior -- Religious aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Case, Peter, 1959- editor.
Höpfl, Heather, editor.
Letiche, Hugo K., 1946- editor.
ISBN 9781137263100
1137263105