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Being Whole in the Workplace (excerpt)
by Lynn Garrett,
1998
Dorothy Marcic, author and director of the graduate program in human resources
at Vanderbilt University, is a Bahá’í from Nashville,
Tennessee:
Bahá’u’lláh (founder of Bahá’í)
said that trustworthiness is the foundation for all virtues, that “every
affair doth depend on it.” And I teach that, in business, if you
treat people unjustly, they pull back some of themselves, becoming unmotivated
and cynical. When people say, “business is business,” it’s
usually an excuse for being unethical. But business is not separate from
the rest of the world - it operates on the same principles. Doing the right
thing is good for business in the long run. It wasn’t that long ago
you couldn’t say “God” to many people, certainly not
in companies - they’d shrink away from you. Now there’s a
hunger for spirituality, and people are talking about it, even at work.
--Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Viewer’s
Guide
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