Jason Stansbury

Religion in organizations: Cognition and behavior

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.

Corporatism and Inequality: The Race to the Bottom (Line)

We search for an understanding of how the scholarly field of management tackles, copes with, or perhaps just conveniently avoids the subjects of race and wealth inequality in contemporary America. Doing so means confronting an inescapable paradox between the imposing and expanding power of corporate capitalism on the one hand, and the depressing and stubborn reality of poverty and economic inequality in American society on the other. The paper is structured into three major parts. First, we present a brief overview of poverty and corporatism, followed by a discussion of existing management scholarship on the intersection of poverty, race, and inequality; Second, we discuss underlying conceptual frameworks that create tensions in management scholarship between economic and social imperatives; Last, we conclude with a few speculative words about future directions for more and better management research attention to these issues.