The Importance of Interfaith Dialog in the Workplace for Achieving Organizational Goals: a Kenyan Case Study

Abstract

McLuhan (1964) foresaw a time where cultures would be united through technology in what he called the global village. This would be the new form of social organization that would inevitably unite the entire world into one great social, political, and cultural system (Baran & Davis, 2009). It is argued in much of the literature on the intercultural workplace that with an increasingly globalized community comes an increasingly globalized and diverse workforce. As Blommaert (2010) correctly puts it, the world has increasingly become interconnected and is marked by more and more mobility of both people and commodities, including language and faith (italics added). Thus, one’s faith – like one’s culture and language – accompanies the individual wherever the person goes. Consequently, faith, in this sense, should also be part of the globalization debate as much as other sociocultural and economic topics.