RT Article
T1 Spirituality Incorporated: Including Convergent Spiritual Values in Business
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 132
IS 4
SP 779
OP 794
A1 Brophy, Matthew
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785656376
AB Businesses frequently exclude spiritual values, viewing such values as impositions that belong in business as much as a priest belongs at a bachelor party. Yet spirituality should not be viewed as impositions from without, but as inclusions from within. Spiritual values should be included in a company to the extent that these values are shared by the principals of a firm. Excluding spiritual values found in a “convergent consensus” runs contrary to freedom and liberty that Milton Friedman, among others, champions. Furthermore, the exclusion of such values from a business threatens to alienate business persons from their moral integrity. By cultivating what I will call “the spiritual imagination,” businesses can facilitate fidelity between the convergent values of its principals, and the actions, policies, and culture of a company.
K1 Imagination
K1 Consensus
K1 Convergent
K1 Spiritual values
K1 Friedman
K1 Spirituality
DO 10.1007/s10551-014-2337-y