The Role Of Christianity In Business | How Faith Can Influence Work Ethics
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, connect with Mitchell J. Neubert, the senior associate dean of Research and Faculty Development for the Hankamer School of Business, the Chavanne Chair of Christian Ethics in Business, and a professor of Management at Baylor University.
With a Ph.D. in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, Mitchell specializes in leadership development, ethics, team dynamics, and organizational change – all in the context of spirituality and business.
So, are there benefits of combining Christianity and business? With years of experience in this field, Mitchell sits down to enlighten us…
In this conversation, we cover:
- How Mitchell's faith plays into his research and teaching at Baylor.
- What "spiritual capital" is, and how it contributes to business predictions.
- How faith and resilience are connected.
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest is Mitchell Newbert. He's at Baylor University, |
| 0:44.3 | he's a senior associate dean for research and faculty development. He holds the |
| 0:49.0 | Chamon chair and Christian ethics in business. He is a professor of |
| 0:52.3 | management. And we had to talk about the topic of the role Christian ethics in business, is a professor of management, |
| 0:53.1 | a way to talk about the topic of the role Christianity plays in business. |
| 0:56.8 | So Mitchell, welcome and thanks for coming. |
| 0:59.1 | Great, my pleasure. |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, tell me a bit about your history |
| 1:01.8 | and then how you got onto this topic and, you know, to where you're at today. Sure. Well, I'm at Baylor University, which for those who aren't familiar is an institution that has a mission statement that involves Christian values and beliefs and so it's in a unique situation in academia |
| 1:16.7 | where we haven't really abandoned that for the sake of research aspirations or other things that seems to be the path that some universities have taken. |
| 1:24.0 | We've tried to hold that firm as something that's essentially what we do while we have advanced |
| 1:29.3 | our research to an R1 status. |
| 1:31.6 | And so we're unique in that in that aspect and as a result that creates a unique |
| 1:35.6 | space for me to feel free to think about how my faith which is very |
| 1:39.6 | central to me and has been for a large portion of my life, might play out in my teaching and in my research. |
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