Religion in Organizations: Cognition and Behavior

Authors

Gary R. Weaver
Jason Stansbury, Calvin UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Title

Religion and Organization Theory

Abstract

Religious institutions can affect organizational practices when employees bring their religious commitments and practices into the workplace. But those religious commitments function in the midst of other organizational factors that influence the working out of employees’ religious commitments. This process can generate varying outcomes in organizational contexts, ranging from a heightened effect of religious commitment on employee behavior to a negligible or nonexistent influence of religion on employee behavior. Relying on social identity theory and schematic social cognition as unifying frameworks for the study of religious behavior, we develop a theoretically informed approach to understanding how and why the religious beliefs, commitments and practices employees bring to work have varying behavioral impacts.

First Page

65

Last Page

110

DOI

doi:10.1108/S0733-558X20140000041011

Publication Date

2014

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Weaver, G. R., & Stansbury, J. M. 2014. Religion in organizations: Cognition and behavior. In P. Tracey, N. Phillips, & M. Lounsbury (Ed.s), Religion and Organization Theory, Research in the Sociology of Organizations (vol. 41): 65-110.