Christian Business Management Excellence
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The 21st century business environment demands superior performance, and high outcomes. Best management practices are seen as the ways to meet such demands and challenges. This means developing and emulating behaviours that are considered to be the best in the world. It is the belief that this type of approach will create an opportunity to bring in high monetary rewards and material gains. While this may be the secular world’s approach to achieving excellence in terms of high performance outcomes, there are organizations striving to attain management excellence from a different perspective by adopting and integrating the best practices from biblical principles and Christian literature. This approach should not be ignored. Christian business practitioners look beyond what secular organizations aim at – profits and material gains. They desire that their intended practices are consistent with God’s character, are being done with good motives and bring the high level of performance desired by the business enterprise.
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