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Management and the Gospel: Luke's Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries
Bruno Dyck
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Description for Management and the Gospel: Luke's Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries
Paperback. This unique and reader-friendly book promises to become the classic 'go to' book for anyone truly interested in studying what the Bible says about managing organizations. Num Pages: 303 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRCV; KJC; KJMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
The goals of Management and the Gospel: Luke's Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries may appear to be simple: it describes what management theory and practice looked like in the first century, uses this as a lens to examine what the Gospel of Luke says about management, and draws out implications for today. However, the book is quite profound in finding that management is a dominant theme in the Gospel, that its message is consistently counter-cultural, and that Luke contains a four-phase 'how to' process model to help readers to implement change. Readers will acquire a new way ... Read more
The goals of Management and the Gospel: Luke's Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries may appear to be simple: it describes what management theory and practice looked like in the first century, uses this as a lens to examine what the Gospel of Luke says about management, and draws out implications for today. However, the book is quite profound in finding that management is a dominant theme in the Gospel, that its message is consistently counter-cultural, and that Luke contains a four-phase 'how to' process model to help readers to implement change. Readers will acquire a new way ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137377333
SKU
V9781137377333
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Bruno Dyck
Bruno Dyck is Professor in the Department of Business Administration in the I.H. Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
Reviews for Management and the Gospel: Luke's Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries
“Dyck demonstrates that ‘management’ is not just a contemporary concept, but aspects of it were already evident in the ancient world (including in Aristotle‘s reflections) and in the Bible. …This remarkable effort will be of special use to Christian practitioners and scholars who want to reflect theologically on leadership. One would be hard pressed to find anything comparable to this ... Read more