Religious Diversity in the Workplace

Employees bring their beliefs and religious values to work and this can be a source of either positive performance or negative conflict. Social conflicts around religion impact more than societies and communities. They also impact organizations. ''Anti-religion'' sentiments tend to be based on the perception that religion can be neatly separated from the ''more acceptable/palatable'' spirituality but this ignores the fact that - for most people - the two are intimately intertwined and inseparable. As religious identity is salient for a majority of the world''s population it is thus an important aspect of organizations - particularly those with a large and diverse body of employees. This handbook provides a timely and necessary analysis of religious diversity in organizations investigating the role of national context the intersections of religion with ethnicity and gender and approaches to diversity management.