Christian Business Academy Review

Editor’s Perspective

Robert Holbrook — 2024-04-16

Editor's perspective on Christian Business Academy Review.

Teaching an Internship Course with an Emphasis on Vocation and Calling

Todd Steen — 2024-04-16

Although internships are increasingly important to business students as part of their education, Christian professors can often find it difficult to integrate a Christian perspective throughout the teaching and academic supervision of interns. This article presents a model that focuses the internship experience through a process of reflection on the concepts of vocation and calling. The article also includes descriptions of assignments used in an internship course taught at a Christian college, including practices for journal writing and a list of books and films that are used in the course.

Getting Students to Read Course Material

Elizabeth Holbrook — 2024-04-16

To successfully achieve all course outcomes by the semester’s end, higher education professors expect students to bear some responsibility for their learning by reading assigned textbook chapters or articles outside of class. However, studies show that students are not reading assigned content independently. In fact, most students feel it is the professor’s job to cover all the relevant content in class. Previous research has found that holding students accountable through pop quizzes, scheduled quizzes, or graded reading assignments significantly increases reading compliance. This study investigated if low-stakes, guided reading assignments would motivate business students to read the course material before class. It also assessed students’ perceived value of completing the reading assignments. Using an accounting class at Point Loma Nazarene University (N=24) and a management class at Evangel University (N=38), we found that holding students accountable increased reading compliance, even with low point values. This resulted in the professors being able to use class time to expand on key concepts. In addition, we also found a significant increase in students’ perceptions of the value of reading before class if the professor did not spend class time regurgitating the assigned reading material.

Applying the Imago Dei Using Agency Theory: An Intuitive Active Learning Exercise for the Management Classroom

Benton Jones — 2024-04-16

A management instructor and a religion instructor collaborated to create an instructional exercise for the application of agency theory using the theological concept of the Imago Dei. The result is a simple method for management instructors to help business students understand the roles of a manager from a biblical worldview. The attributes of God and the imago Dei are common elements of most Christian traditions but are often difficult concepts to introduce to undergraduate students as they apply to management theory. This exercise offers an intuitive approach for management instructors using agency theory.

Teaching Complexity Management: Faith Integration on the Edge of Chaos

Paul Gratton — 2024-04-16

This paper provides an example of discipline-specific biblical faith integration in a master’s-level complexity management course. This approach encourages students to integrate biblical concepts with complexity management concepts, providing them opportunity to reflect on and exercise their faith.

At Work on Purpose

Daryl Smith — 2024-04-16

Many Christians struggle with how to live out their Christian faith at work. This manuscript presents an organization, At Work on Purpose (AWOP), that has successfully helped Christians do just that. The story explores the history and inner workings of AWOP, allowing the reader to understand how the organization functions to help Christian millennials and Generation Z enter and get established in the workforce. The unfolding story reveals challenges the organization faces related to leadership succession and can be used by management professors to stimulate classroom discussion on this topic.

Small Teaching: A Review

Glenn Grossman — 2024-04-16

Review of Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning.

Make Work Matter: A Review

Jill Risner — 2024-04-16

A review of Make Work Matter.

Re-examining the Identity and Values of the Christian Business Academy Review

Benton Jones — 2024-04-16

To inform its readership and potential contributors, this paper revisits and builds on the work of Dulaney’s (2014) study of the Christian Business Academy Review (CBAR). In this article, the researchers analyze CBAR titles and abstracts and titles from the Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE) for the period from 2014 to 2023 and compare those results to Dulaney’s original findings. To further name the specific discourse of the journal, the researchers conducted a thematic analysis of the CBAR’s abstracts. The results of this study show the CBAR to be a dynamic and growing venue for both single and multiple authors to engage in the sharing of ideas and resources related to the teaching of a great variety of business topics from a Christian worldview and to college teaching as a profession. Perhaps most importantly, the CBAR has remained true to its stated purpose.

Endings

Robert Holbrook — 2024-04-16

Endings for Christian Business Academy Review.