The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity

Summary:

Are we really facing a crisis in business trust? If so, does it matter and if it does matter, what can we do about it? This short booklet argues that Christian thinking offers a valuable framework in our attempts to rebuild trust in business today.

Details:

Trust is big business. It is difficult to open a newspaper without coming across a report on trust in society or a discussion of the impact of mistrust on business, politics or public services.
LICC, in partnership with the Business Studies Group set out to explore what contribution Christian thinking can make to the vexed and challenging issue of rebuilding trust in business today.
This booklet, published by Grove books in their Ethics series, is the result. It argues that whilst current measures of accountability, transparency, financial, social and environmental auditing are important and necessary, they are proving insufficient.
It goes on suggest that the Christian vision – of relational, self-centred but redeemable humans, bound together by the communication and commitment of a covenant agreement, which is regulated by discipline, fostered through farsightedness and restored through self-sacrifice – offers a useful model for building, maintaining and reconstructing trust, and it concludes with a number of examples in which these principles have been implemented.
Well-researched, accessible and relevant, this booklet will be of interest to all Christians involved in business in whatever capacity, as well as to those who are concerned with the growing ‘trust deficit’ in modern society.