Organizational Mission as Source of Vulnerability: Comparing Attitudes of Trustees and Professors in Southern Baptist Colleges
While mission statements are normally helpful to an organization, they can provide a basis for conflict--a structural cleavage--between persons in the organization who relate to the mission and the client population in different ways. In church-supported colleges, this may be illustrated by the ways...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1995
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| In: |
Review of religious research
Year: 1995, Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 355-368 |
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| Summary: | While mission statements are normally helpful to an organization, they can provide a basis for conflict--a structural cleavage--between persons in the organization who relate to the mission and the client population in different ways. In church-supported colleges, this may be illustrated by the ways professors and trustees relate to the dilemma of religious socialization and secular instruction. Current developments in the Southern Baptist Convention reveal a fundamentalist/conservative strategy of creating and exploiting a structural cleavage between trustees and professors. Survey data are presented to show that while a cleavage is not apparent in Baptist colleges at the time of the survey (1991), a fairly consistent pattern of differences in the relative endorsement of attitudes toward religious socialization and secular education does exist. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511149 |
