How Title VII Erodes the Mission of the Religious University

For decades, courts have held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not permit religious universities to consider a job applicant's religious beliefs when staffing most faculty and administrative positions. This article briefly reviews the law in this area and then applies the vas...

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Main Author: Zigarelli, Michael A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1998
In: International journal of value-based management
Year: 1998, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-59
Further subjects:B Title vii
B Discrimination
B University
B christian
B College
B Religion
B Organizational Culture
B staffing
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Summary:For decades, courts have held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not permit religious universities to consider a job applicant's religious beliefs when staffing most faculty and administrative positions. This article briefly reviews the law in this area and then applies the vast body of research on ’organizational culture' to argue that this judicial interpretation will, in the long-run, undermine the religious university's ability to perpetuate its mission.
ISSN:1572-8528
Contains:Enthalten in: International journal of value-based management
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/A:1007710505098