Management als Religion?
Religious and moral training-courses seem to fulfill a specific function in the context of the Japanese economic rise to power. Several religious scientists, Japanese as well as foreign, have pointed to the surprisingly religious character of company training courses, ideology, managing style and th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Diagonal-Verlag
2012
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Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Year: 1993, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 50-78 |
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| Summary: | Religious and moral training-courses seem to fulfill a specific function in the context of the Japanese economic rise to power. Several religious scientists, Japanese as well as foreign, have pointed to the surprisingly religious character of company training courses, ideology, managing style and the employees' devote conduct. In this essay I try to analyse the cultural and religious background as well as the economic interests, which lay behind the actual religious involvement of Japanese companies. Shintō, Buddhism and Confucianism are observed in their interdependent historical development, concentrating on the political and economic bearings of these religions in former times. The contemporary science of religion, with regards to Japan, should not be too astonished in view of the various religious practices in the midst of the so-called »modernisation and economic rationalization«. However, the Japanese movement of »religionizing management« (keiei no shūkyōka), somehow reminds one of the newly invented concepts of »Corporate Culture«/»Unternehmenskultur« in America and Europe. |
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| ISSN: | 2194-508X |
| Contains: | In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/0018.50 |