[PDF] The Vocation Of Business eBook

Author : John C. Médaille
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2007-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826428096

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This is a textbook on the Social Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church for would-be business professionals. Part I does 3 things: provides (1) a history of moral discourse since the Enlightenment, (2) a history of economic thought from Aristotle and Aquinas to Ludwig Mises and Milton Friedman , and (3) a history of property. Part II provides a close reading of 3 major social encyclicals. Part III examines the tensions between Catholic social teaching and neoclassical economics. Part IV explores 5 case studies of the actual implementation of Catholic-like social teaching. The over-riding theme of the book is that the original unity of distributive and corrective justice that prevailed in both economics and moral discourse until the 16th and 17th centuries was shattered by the rise of an "individualistic" capitalism that relied on corrective justice (justice in exchange) only. The rise of individualistic business practice was paralleled by a movement in moral thinking from a discourse of virtue and the common good to a discourse of utilitarianism and "emotivism"; individual preference became all that mattered, and only the market is capable of correlating individual preferences. An economics that lacks a distributive principle will attain neither equity nor equilibrium and will be inherently unstable and increasingly reliant on government power (Keynesianism) to correct the balances. Catholic social teaching emphasizes equity in the distribution of land, the means of production, and a just wage.

Author : Michael and jana Novak
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2013-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781476745725

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Why do we work so hard at our jobs, day after day? Why is a job well done important to us? We know there is more to a career than money and prestige, but what exactly do we mean by "fulfillment"? These are old but important questions. They belong with some newly discovered ones: Why are people in business more religious than the population as a whole? What do people of business know, and what do they do, that anchors their faith? In this ground-breaking and inspiring book, Michael Novak ties together these crucial questions by explaining the meaning of work as a vocation. Work should be more than just a job -- it should be a calling. This book explains an important part of our lives in a new way, and readers will instantly recognize themselves in its pages. A larger proportion than ever before of the world's Christians, Jews, and other peoples of faith are spending their working lives in business. Business is a profession worthy of a person's highest ideals and aspirations, fraught with moral possibilities both of great good and of great evil. Novak takes on agonizing problems, such as downsizing, the tradeoffs that must sometimes be faced between profits and human rights, and the pitfalls of philanthropy. He also examines the daily questions of how an honest day's work contributes to the good of many people, both close at hand and far away. Our work connects us with one another. It also makes possible the universal advance out of poverty, and it is an essential prerequisite of democracy and the institutions of civil society. This book is a spiritual feast, for everyone who wants to examine how to make a life through making a living.

Author : Robert A. Sirico
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business
ISBN : 9781880595206

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In this interview, Fr. Robert A. Sirico addresses these questions, showing how Christians can appropriately respond to such issues, and present real challenges to dominant secularist ideas about the ends of freedom. Truth and freedom are inseparable, Sirico maintains, and this connection is at the core of human dignity.

Author : Alexander D. Hill
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830818860

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To those faced with the many questions and quandaries of doing business with integrity, here is a place to beggin. Alexander Hill explores the Christian concepts of holiness, justice, and love, and shows how some common responses to business ethics fall short of these. Then, he turns to penetrating case studies on such pressing topics as employer-employee relations, discrimination, and affirmative action.

Author : B. Okonkwo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137295120

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Combining creative biblical interpretation, Christian moral reflection, and business expertise, Finding Meaning in Business is a thoughtful and thought-provoking look at how business leaders, professionals, and students can integrate a sense of calling into their careers and into the business world as a whole.

Author : Wayne Grudem
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433516837

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Can business activity in itself be morally good and pleasing to God? Sometimes business can seem so shady-manipulating the "bottom line," deceiving the consumer, or gaining promotions because of whom you know. But Wayne Grudem introduces a novel concept: business itself glorifies God when it is conducted in a way that imitates God's character and creation. He shows that all aspects of business, including ownership, profit, money, competition, and borrowing and lending, glorify God because they are reflective of God's nature. Though Grudem isn't naïve about the easy ways these activities can be perverted and used as a means to sin, he knows that Christians can be about the business of business. This biblically based book is a thoughtful guide to imitating God during interactions with customers, coworkers, employees, and other businesses. See how your business, and your life in business, can be dedicated to God's glory.

Author : Andreas Widmer
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business ethics
ISBN : 1931018766

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Former-Swiss Guard, CEO and business leader, Andreas Widmer gives a behind-the-scenes look into Pope John Paul ll, "the most authentically human person I've ever met," and reveals how those memories shaped and forged his success as a corporate executive.

Author : Steven Garber
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830896260

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Vocation is more than a job. It is our relationships and responsibilities woven into the work of God. In following our calling to seek the welfare of our world, we find that it flourishes and so do we. Garber offers here a book for parents, artists, students, public servants and businesspeople—for all who want to discover the virtue of vocation.

Author : Jinxing Huang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Wu Ho-Su (1919-1986) pioneered business ventures ranging from cloth and synthetic fiber industries to department stores and life insurance. This son of a crippled former coolie began as a laborer for a Japanese cloth-importing company in the 1930s, but eventually became a manager and then an independent entrepreneur. Overcoming business obstacles in Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist-ruled Taiwan after 1945, Mr. Wu painstakingly built Shinkong into Taiwan's sixth-largest business enterprise by the 1980s. This account of Wu Ho-Su's life, developed by Mr. Wu working directly with Dr. Huang Chin-shingm of the Academia Sinica, one of Taiwan's most distinguished historians, is instructive for the lessons it offers about both business practices in East Asia and their interplay with Confucian values. The book recounts with graphic examples the changing role of family and other networks in Taiwan's economic "miracle" and in the region more generally. The blend that Mr. Wu evidenced of business acumen and concern for Confucianism, in turn, raises broader questions of the type that scholars and businesspeople have strenuously debated since the time of Max Weber about the compatibility of Confucian norms and modern business practices.

Author : Catholic Church. Pontificium Consilium de Iustitia et Pace
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business
ISBN :

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"Business leaders are called to engage the contemporary economic and financial world in light of the principles of human dignity and the common good. This reflection offers business leaders, members of their institutions, and various stakeholders a set of practical principles that can guide tem in their service of the common good. Among these principles, we recall the principle of meeting the needs of the world with goods which are truly good and which truly serve without forgetting, in a spirit of solidarity, the needs of the poor and the vulnerable; the principle of organising work within enterprises in a manner which is respectful of human dignity; the principle of subsidiarity, which fosters a spirit of initiative and increases the competence of the employees--considered 'co-entrepreneurs'; and, finally, the principle of the sustainable creation of wealth and its just distribution among the various stakeholders."--Foreword.