Reimagining Faith and Management

9Employers’ strategies on faith at work

Dorothea Alewell and Tobias Moll

If owner–employee can trust

Before rivalries flare up and bust

And find common stake

In what they undertake

Why business will flourish with gust

Godfrey D’Lima

Introduction

Although spirituality (or faith) at work is a topical subject (Ashmos & Duchon, 2000; Benefiel, Fry, & Geigle, 2014; Garg, 2017; Giacalone & Jurkiewicz, 2003; Houghton, Neck, & Krishnakumar, 2016; Karakas, 2010; Krishnakumar & Neck, 2002; Miller & Ewest, 2013), we know little about employers’ strategic choices regarding spirituality at work, and less so for specific countries, especially for Germany. In qualitative in-depth interviews with ten German managers on spirituality at work, ...