Encountering Religion In The Workplace

Author : Raymond F. Gregory
Publisher : ILR Press
ISBN 13 : 0801460743
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering Religion in the Workplace written by Raymond F. Gregory and published by ILR Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a recent survey, 20 percent of the workers interviewed reported that they had either experienced religious prejudice while at work or knew of a coworker who had been subjected to some form of discriminatory conduct. Indeed, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the filing of religious discrimination charges under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, national origin, sex, and religion) increased 75 percent between 1997 and 2008. The growing desire on the part of some religious groups to openly express their faith while at work has forced their employers and coworkers to reconsider the appropriateness of certain aspects of devotional conduct. Religion in the workplace does not sit well with all workers, and, from the employer’s perspective, the presence of religious practice during the workday may be distracting and, at times, divisive. A thin line separates religious self-expression—by employees and employers—from unlawful proselytizing. In Encountering Religion in the Workplace, Raymond F. Gregory presents specific cases that cast light on the legal ramifications of mixing religion and work—in the office, on the factory floor, even within religious organizations. Court cases arising under Title VII and the First Amendment must be closely studied, Gregory argues, if we are to fully understand the difficulties that arise for employers and employees alike when they become involved in workplace disputes involving religion, and his book is an ideal resource for anyone hoping to understand this issue.

Author : Raymond F. Gregory
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801461227
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering Religion in the Workplace written by Raymond F. Gregory and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a recent survey, 20 percent of the workers interviewed reported that they had either experienced religious prejudice while at work or knew of a coworker who had been subjected to some form of discriminatory conduct. Indeed, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the filing of religious discrimination charges under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, national origin, sex, and religion) increased 75 percent between 1997 and 2008. The growing desire on the part of some religious groups to openly express their faith while at work has forced their employers and coworkers to reconsider the appropriateness of certain aspects of devotional conduct. Religion in the workplace does not sit well with all workers, and, from the employer’s perspective, the presence of religious practice during the workday may be distracting and, at times, divisive. A thin line separates religious self-expression—by employees and employers—from unlawful proselytizing. In Encountering Religion in the Workplace, Raymond F. Gregory presents specific cases that cast light on the legal ramifications of mixing religion and work—in the office, on the factory floor, even within religious organizations. Court cases arising under Title VII and the First Amendment must be closely studied, Gregory argues, if we are to fully understand the difficulties that arise for employers and employees alike when they become involved in workplace disputes involving religion, and his book is an ideal resource for anyone hoping to understand this issue.

Author : Justine Ellis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004523901
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Religious Literacy written by Justine Ellis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Religious Literacy challenges popular understandings of religious literacy as an inclusive framework for navigating religious diversity in the public sphere. Offering a new model, this book provides insights into the often-overlooked feelings and practices informing our questionably secular age.

Author : Francis K.G. Lim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000297438
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Social Engagement in China written by Francis K.G. Lim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Christianity continue to experience growth in an increasingly authoritarian political system that enforces strict regulations on religion? How are ordinary Christians affected by social and political changes in the country, and how do they make their influence felt in wider society? Taking Chinese Christians’ experience as a case study, Lim and Sng examine the possibilities and limitations of Christian engagement in society under an authoritarian regime. They look especially at efforts by religious individuals and groups who are seeking to address social issues by engaging in unobtrusive and non-antagonistic activities that interact with controlling state institutions. Their emphasis is on everyday lived religion, analysing how Christians express their faith in their everyday activity and not only in spaces demarcated as falling within the religious domain. This book is a valuable reference for scholars and students looking to understand religion in relation to politics, culture and everyday life in rapidly modernising East Asian societies and particularly in China.

Author : Jianlin Chen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316762009
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law and Religious Market Theory written by Jianlin Chen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With comparative case studies from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Jianlin Chen's new work offers a fresh, descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion. This presentation of the original law and religious market theory employs an interdisciplinary approach that sheds light on this subject for scholars in legal and sociological disciplines. It sets out the precise nature of religious competition envisaged by the current legal regimes in the three jurisdictions and analyses how certain restrictions on religious practices may facilitate normatively desirable market dynamics. This updated and invaluable resource provides a new and insightful investigation into this fascinating area of law and religion in Greater China today.

Author : Simon Maier
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814751707
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evil Executive: Encounters with malicious and abusive behaviour in the workplace written by Simon Maier and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bullying is common in all walks of life – not least at work. It’s nasty and the results are long-lasting. But sometimes there’s something more than bullying, where executives in organizations are malicious, violent and abusive. These people make their co-workers’ and subordinates’ lives an utter misery, and they can bring organizations down through their machinations. This is not bullying, this is evil. This book offers shocking examples from organizations around the world of the toxic nature of evil executives and the damage they do. It gives advice on how to recognize these predators, manipulators, sadists and frauds, how to manage in their presence, and how to reduce their crippling effect on you or anyone who might be a target. ffering solace and pointers in equal measure, The Evil Executive will provoke you to serious thought and timely action against the myriad manifestations of evil in the workplace.

Author : Dr Stefan Gröschl
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472441060
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Religious Diversity in the Workplace written by Dr Stefan Gröschl and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Diversity in the Workplace presents essays, conceptual papers, empirical studies and case studies about how religious diversity and spirituality are managed in the workplace. The different contributions discuss policies and practices of firms addressing the religious and spiritual beliefs of their employees, how implicit and unmarked religious norms influence the ‘managing’ of religious issues in organizations, and what the benefits of a religion diverse workforce are. The perspectives and contributions include a wide range of disciplines by authors from leading academic institutions around the world.

Author : Rachel Mikva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108843778
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interreligious Studies written by Rachel Mikva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive textbook designed for undergraduate and graduate students in Interreligious Studies.

Author : Tyler T. Roberts
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023114752X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering Religion written by Tyler T. Roberts and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of religion" and an ideological and authoritarian "religion," he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach the field as a site of "encounter" and "response," illuminating the agency, creativity, and critical awareness of religious actors. To respond to religion is to ask what religious behaviors and representations mean to us in our individual worlds, and scholars must confront questions of possibility and becoming that arise from testing their beliefs, imperatives, and practices. Roberts refers to the work of Hent de Vries, Eric Santner, and Stanley Cavell, each of whom exemplifies encounter and response in their writings as they traverse philosophy and religion to expose secular thinking to religious thought and practice. This approach highlights the resources religious discourse can offer to a fundamental reorientation of critical thought. In humanistic criticism after secularism, the lines separating the creative, the pious, and the critical themselves become the subject of question and experimentation.

Author : Robert Boston
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615927778
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Close Encounters With the Religious Right written by Robert Boston and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having spent the last 12 years doggedly tracking the religious right, Boston now offers revealing insights about its message and intentions, including its campaign to do away with separation of church and state, privacy rights, and religious liberty. Photos.