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Title:
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Sharing God's love: a study of mission in faith-based health care
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Author:
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Malvini, Shawna Kristine Louise
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Abstract:
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In the last two decades, organizational communication, management and
psychology scholars have begun to focus their attention on growing trends of
incorporating spirituality in the workplace. At the same time, faith-based organizations
have taken up the question of how to maintain unique spiritual environments. For these
institutions, communicating their religious mission becomes the primary feature of
organizational identity. For researchers, the religious communication becomes a prime
avenue for understanding the implications of spirituality in organizations. This study
explores mission in a faith-based health care system to examine the ways in which
communicating a spiritual mission enhances and restrains both organizations and their
members. Following the tenets of grounded theory and using participant observation,
textual analysis and in-depth interviews, the research found that employees make sense of
mission in two primary ways: by enacting or ignoring it. |
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Description:
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Thesis (M.A., Communication Studies) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2009. |
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URI:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/750
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Date:
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2010-10-21 |
