Business Through The Eyes Of Faith Analysis

When wanting to know how to be a leader or give your employees some motivation, reading the book Business: Through the Eyes of Faith by Chewning, Eby, and Roels will give you some great guidelines. Chewning et al. give great examples and stories to which you can see what your own reaction to the situation would have been, along with some great follow up questions for reflection. I really enjoyed the parts at the end of the chapter that gives you some Bible verses to explore and see how the Bible would give you instruction on different situations. The topics that I thought pertained more to me and would help me in my husband’s business are those of motivation, communication, and being a Christian leader. How do you get someone to work …show more content…
167). Your business depends on how your employees relate to you and how you influence them to get their work done. Same goes for a professor and a student. There are four different approaches to motivational theory and they include Freudian, deterministic, cognitive, and inheritance. While Freudian theories focus on the inner drives, the unconscious forces deep inside of us, deterministic theories seem to be programmed in us from our past experiences. Cognitive and inheritance theories are a little more closely related. Cognitive theory conveys that you are motivated by what you see and inheritance is what you were born with, rather that be high motivational tendencies or low desires to perform. The Bible, although, focuses on our responsibility of choice. “Scripture speaks about the desires of the heart: the core of our intellect, wills, and emotions” explains Chewning et al. (1990) (p. 169). When learning about motivation a good verse to remember is I Corinthians 4:5 where God examines the intentions behind every action. Ritenbaugh gives a great explanation of how our hearts should be when seeking to motivate others. Ritenbaugh (1999) states, “These two brief verses (Psalms 24:3-4) broadly cover