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BUS 2000 Purpose and Practice of Business: Lee

Discussion Assignment

DISCUSSION PROMPT (Christian Application)

  1. Van Duzer, ch 2, sec: "Consequences of Broken Human-Human Relations for Business"
  2. Notice the arenas where tension has replaced the harmony and peace that God intended:
    • Living wages - "living wage"
    • Unsafe working conditions - "safety at work"
    • Employee privacy - "employee privacy" - "privacy"
    • Payment of bribes - "bribery"
    • Social injustice with respect to race, ethnicity, and/or gender - "racial injustice" - "gender injustice"
    • Other issues of social injustice - "social injustice"
  3. Which arena resonates with you most?
  4. What would be practical ways of addressing / abolishing these tensions in business?
  5. What would be a Christian viewpoint of these tensions and how they might be relieved?

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STEPS

  1. Click on – Business Source Complete database
  2. “Choose Database” – ATLA Religion database
  3. Enter key word or term
  4. Click Search
  5. Check Full Text box
  6. Check Magazines box
  7. Choose an article or articles from a Business magazine
  8. Choose an article or articles from a Christian magazine
  9. See if you can integrate concepts from the two articles
  10. Prepare to discuss