A Comment to “Justice and Christian Management”

  • Brian E. Porter

Abstract

Beversluis contends in his essay, Justice and Christian Management, that “...love needs to be informed by justice” and that “...justice requires formal structure (such as rules, procedures, explicit contracts, explicit due process policies, and written criteria of performance appeal procedures)” (Beversluis, p. 8). That is, though practicing love should assure justice within Christian organizations, it does not. Thus, a formal structure is necessary to help achieve, though not guarantee, justice (Beversluis, p. 12). The essay is compelling, and, given that virtually all organizations (profit and nonprofit)
implement some type of formal structure, few people (Christian or non-Christian) would contest its general premise.
Section
Dialogue III