The New Testament Church as an Exemplar Organizational Culture

This article builds on management education’s emphasis on organizational culture by offering the New Testament church as an exemplar culture. The culture of the New Testament church is exposited from a study of New Testament prescriptions for the behavior of followers of Christ. Instructions and instructor resources for a classroom exercise are included in which students interact with these passages, form their own summary of New Testament culture, and make application to the workplace

Incorporating Biblical Motivations into a Business Analytics Course

Business schools have been developing data analytics courses to meet industry demand. However, a main challenge is that business students lack motivations to learn analytics. In this article, we offer suggestions and scriptural examples on how the Bible can be a rich source for Christian faculty to provide motivation for students to master the learning objectives in analytics courses as the development of a sound mind is deeply rooted in the Bible and God’s Truth

Love as a Business Strategy: Resilience, Belonging and Success Book Review and Reflection

Teaching students about the value of organizational culture can be a daunting task for university professors. At faith-based universities, faculty face the additional challenge of connecting faith in Christ to organizational culture and answering the questions about how our faith should be reflected in our leadership. In Love as a Business Strategy: Resilience, Belonging and Success, authors Anwar et al. (2021) lay out the plan to flip any culture into a culture of love just as they have done at Softway, a software company Anwar created in 2003 during his senior year in college at the University of Houston. This book attempts to illustrate the methods they used along with sharing the stories of their journey and lessons learned. Though this is a secular market book, the biblical connections are evident on each page, and the lessons students can learn are transformational

Anxiety and the New Generation in College: What Can a Professor Do?

The generation currently attending universities, the iGeneration, is unusually fearful and anxious; the paper explores anxiety in relation to these students. We first examine anxiety using the psychology and management literature as well as Scripture and then relate this to major characteristics of the iGeneration. The final section discusses classroom implementations

Resources for Teaching Investments from a Christian Perspective

This paper outlines ideas typically covered in an investments course from a faith-based perspective. Topics include the time value of money, bonds, markets, taxes, risk, and portfolios. We provide example resources and suggestions of faith integration accomplished through engaging multiple types of pedagogies and assignments. A sample final project enables students to demonstrate how the entire investment process discussed throughout the term comes together at the end to achieve an integrated portfolio. Biblically responsible investing, environmental-social-governance investing, and sustainable development goals are also considered as practical ways of integrating faith and investing

Commander or Caretaker? The Unique Role of an Interim Dean

The temporary nature of the appointment to serve as an interim dean influences the myriad duties of academic leadership, including strategic planning, faculty and staff development, academic program development, and fundraising and public relations. Whether or not the interim decides to become a candidate for the permanent position is an important consideration. This paper examines what those appointed as interim dean can expect, including challenges all deans face and those unique to interim deans

Christian Identity, Counteractive Control, and Business Ethics

This paper reviews the literature on counteractive control and moral identity formation and explores how these theories apply to teaching business ethics in Christian higher education. We propose that institutions of Christian higher education have an opportunity to promote students’ ethical resolve based on their ethical identity formation based on the person of Jesus Christ. This paper provides practical implications of these theories on pedagogy within higher education and suggests potential directions for future research

Advising Christian Business Students in an Age of Corporate Social Activism

Attitudes conflicting with biblical teaching have become common in corporate boardrooms resulting in corporate social activism. This trend challenges Christian business professors who advise students seeking job opportunities. By applying Herrity’s proposed theory of faith integration, a framework for advising Christian business students in an age of corporate social activism will be proposed. Encouragement for business faculty to build on the proposed advising approach will also be provided

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My Fulbright Experience: International Teaching during Times of Pandemic and War

This paper provides a first-person account of my experience in the Fulbright Scholar program and the lessons learned about teaching internationally, responding to crisis, and understanding the role of faith in seeking guidance and direction during uncertain times. My Fulbright experience took place during the 2021-2022 academic year. During my Fulbright, I was able to live in both Chisinau, Moldova, and Bucharest, Romania. I was able to visit 15 additional cities in Moldova, five additional cities in Romania, and one city in Ukraine. Teaching and research were an important part of my experience, but I learned so much more about myself, about people, about language, about culture, and about history