Date
10-16-2024
Department
Graduate School of Business
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy in Organization and Management (PhD)
Chair
Robert Ball
Keywords
Christian, digital age, morality, secular, moral imperatives
Disciplines
Business | Leadership Studies
Recommended Citation
Kennedy, Kevin J., "Character Challenges American Christian Business Leaders Face in the Secular Digital Age" (2024). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 6105.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/6105
Abstract
In the digital age, Christian business leaders are a minority who are commonly expected to change their leadership priorities to fit within the secularized culture. These expectations for change in their leadership principles can generate character challenges to the very core of a Christian business leader’s beliefs forcing them to make decisions which pit the practice of their proclaimed faith against a secularized business practice. In these workplace challenges, the Christian business leader’s faith, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion compete with secularized practices accepted in today’s American culture. This research documents the insufficient understanding of Christian business leader character challenges prevalent in the secularized digital age. It provides granularized insights into the types of character challenges they face which form both practical implications to inform general business practices and theoretical implications to improve the understanding of business theory.
