(7:30 p.m. GMT-London) Online November 2021 Diversity Lecture The Diversity Centre at Newbold College of Higher Education would like to welcome you to the November 2021 Diversity Lecture.
Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 2:50 pm
In a world wracked with uncertainty faith has taken
centre stage, even among those who might have previously
spurned belief in a higher power.
How, then, can
businesses respond in a way that braids together the
seemingly disparate strands of faith, management and a
healthy bottom line?
A new book,
Reimagining Faith
and Management (Routledge 2021), sets out a business
model that shows organisations how to balance a growing
reliance on faith among their employees with the imperative
of fiscal responsibility.
Edwina Pio, AUT Professor of
Management and New Zealand’s first Professor of Diversity,
has co-authored the book with Robert Kilpatrick and Timothy
Tayyaba Khan stands in front of a class of schoolgirls, not dissimilar to her, and explains what life’s been like growing up Muslim in a post-9/11 world. Those girls, bombarded online with messages on religion, are often too petrified to engage in religious discourse. She hopes opening up the dialogue can change that hesitancy. “That’s the aggressive nature of conversation you see online now . It’s not appropriate to dehumanise them, there’s no room for good conversation to take place to see different perspectives. It’s all about shutting down the conversation,” Khan, chief executive of the Khadija Leadership Network, says.