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In our last monthly MSR zoom session, I offered to present in the October session on a Theology of the Workplace research agenda. This approach seeks to ensure authenticity in employment relations - the criterion outcome - in light of predictors present in religious social teachings and then manifest in actual legal practice. My current research involves the U.S. Roman Catholic chuch; the units of of this longitudinal population study have been U.S. Catholic diocese and archdiocese throughout the country. The assessment is of actual U.S. employment practice against Roman Catholic social teachings that the Vatican and  the U.S. Catholic hierarchy preach in support of the historical mission of the Church to evangelize culture. 

• Attached is the PP slide set from the recent August 2024 AOM / MSR Division scholarly paper. You will see actual Church practice, with scant, if notable, exceptions runs counter to social teachings.
• I've also attached the one page employment law proposal for "Employment-in-Justice" with a view to end "Employment-at-Will" (EAW) in the United States, on the grounds it reflects a continuing judicial failure to properly employ U.S. citizens in the aftermath of the nation's civil war. 
• I am now revising the conference paper for journal submission. 
• Once revised and submitted to the journal process, I intend to publicize this research to various communities and leaders for the change that the U.S. founding documents and Reconstruction Congress goals oblige, and to do so in a timely manner. I'm particularly concerned to reach out to U.S. African-American citizens and their support communities and organizations for reasons the research will (I trust) make clear. So I would greatly appreciate suggestions.   

I'm hoping to move this research to an activist degree of social engagement as an MSR member. Perhaps a AOM 2025 MSR/PDW session could and should come about? What are the possible implications of "Employment-at-Will" research itself for the Academy divisions and interest groups? 

• On Wednesday, I hope we'll have a chance to talk about AOM members being involved in social activism, given the Academy's status as a not-for-profit (IRS: 501(c)3) organization in the US. In a word, the Academy is restricted from taking political stands. But research members appear to able to work for justice in management principles and processes. 

Charlie Tackney

Associate Professor, Emeritus

Copenhagen Business School

Department of Management, Society, and Communication

Email: cttack@gmail.com 

PS: I've been an Academy member since 2005 or so, and have served on several elected positions in MSR, including the leadership track. I was the MSR Interest Group Chair for the covid epidemic outbreak and decisions concerning change in venue.