Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Profession of Faith

Home
Careers, Workplace and Religion

2015-10-31T13:15:57-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

I Guess We’ll Be Eating In Tonight

Last updated on: October 31, 2015 at 1:15 pm By Sarah Conrad Sours

So, what you're saying, then, Anthony Bourdain, is that no matter which restaurant we choose, whenever we go out to eat in a restaurant, we are feeding off of the desperation of undocumented immigrants, who are forced by their situation into jobs no one else will take? Read more

2015-10-25T16:28:13-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Grave Misreporting

Last updated on: October 25, 2015 at 4:28 pm By Sarah Conrad Sours

I'm all for a little frank self-interest driving owners and managers to do what also happens to be in the interests of justice. The more employers cotton on to the fact that generosity works, the better off we'll all be. Read more

Uncategorized

2015-09-09T14:12:37-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

This is “It All Falling Apart”? Really?

Last updated on: September 9, 2015 at 2:12 pm By Sarah Conrad Sours

It is unreasonable to expect to work with near-constant affirmation from superiors, near-constant agreement from colleagues, and near-constant acquiescence from underlings. Read more

2015-09-07T10:52:26-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

The Work of Our Hands

Last updated on: September 7, 2015 at 10:52 am By Sarah Conrad Sours

If this is heavenly--first, to know that every child born is one that will live a long life, second, to know that you yourself will live a long life, and third, to know that you may work to make the years full as well as long--then the opposite is hellish. Read more

Uncategorized

employment

money

2015-08-24T07:16:26-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Teaching Unprofessionalism

Last updated on: August 24, 2015 at 7:16 am By Sarah Conrad Sours

The stories were told by people who were, during the incidents themselves, medical students. Though not as vulnerable as the patients whose abuse they witnessed, they were themselves vulnerable to abuses of power by the doctors they might have considered reporting, and they would certainly have been socialized against objecting openly to their superiors' behavior. Read more

Uncategorized

in the news

professionalism

2015-08-17T16:40:08-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

On Lattices and Ladders

Last updated on: August 17, 2015 at 4:40 pm By Sarah Conrad Sours

If success is necessarily hierarchical and competitive (as even the word "excellence," which I use frequently in the context of intentionally non-competitive virtues, suggests), then a certain callousness is inevitable. It doesn't matter that the second person to invent a thing and patent it is a better person than the first; it's the first that's awarded the patent. "First come, first served" is an attempt to be fair, not to be cruel, right? Read more

2015-08-12T12:18:59-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

A Work-Family Meal

Last updated on: August 12, 2015 at 12:18 pm By Sarah Conrad Sours

The featured chef reported the most important thing he learned from one of his fellow restauranteurs. He said that she told him that the most important thing was for the whole staff to sit down, half an hour before service started, and have a family-style meal together. The documentary didn't show one of these work-family meals, but it seemed to indicate that the chef-owner took the suggestion seriously, and that it spilled over into how he saw and spoke of his staff. Read more

Uncategorized

co-workers

2015-07-02T09:37:59-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Mistakes were made . . . yeah, by us.

Last updated on: July 2, 2015 at 9:37 am By Sarah Conrad Sours

It was an aside, but I mentioned in my last post the importance of using direct language about corporate mistakes. (“We screwed up” instead of “Mistakes were made at some levels.”) Here is a recent and germane example: The article in which I initially discovered this video correctly blurbed the most important line of this video: “Straight up, we made some mistakes.” The rest of the video defaults to the “mistakes were made, sort of more or less by people... Read more

2015-06-28T12:59:08-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Worth Reading Last Week: 6/28

Last updated on: June 28, 2015 at 12:59 pm By Sarah Conrad Sours

If you are in a position of leadership in your organization, please consider privileging "what is good" and "what is true" and "how things ought to be" over "how it will look." Read more

2015-06-23T13:25:57-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Seven Ways to Combat the Student Debt Crisis

Last updated on: June 23, 2015 at 1:25 pm By Sarah Conrad Sours

After my last post, it seemed worth offering some strategies of resistance that don't rely on outright fraud, theft, or dishonesty. These strategies are, I hope, sensible at the personal level and might, if widely enough followed, tame some of the insanity of the current system. They are less dramatic than the plan-to-default-and-screw-the-results model, but they are more radical than Siegel's supposed slacktivism. Read more

Uncategorized

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

I returned the stolen ark with gold tumors and gold rats after plagues struck our cities. Who are we?

Select your answer to see how you score.

The Philistines The Moabites The Amalekites The Ammonites

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category Uncategorized

Select a Month July 2017 February 2017 October 2016 August 2016 June 2016 April 2016 March 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015

TRENDING AT PATHEOS Careers, Workplace and Religion