The business environment is complex; and today’s managers and leaders need knowledge and resources to remain competitive and provide meaningful products and services to consumers. Beyond this fundamental purpose, business leaders also seek to perform a greater good in their communities and the world around them. Regent Global Business Review exists to address those areas that will further enhance the practice of business professionals around the globe.

From the needs of a start-up business to those of a multinational corporation, RGBR provides novel insight for today’s managers and leaders who are innovating and creating organizations to anticipate and respond to change in a global business environment. The intent of this publication is to elevate and broaden the perspective of our readers through relevant, compelling articles written from a values-centric or biblical worldview.

As RGBR expands its international subscriber base, our desire is to feature editorial beyond that of a Western perspective. To truly represent global business, we seek to challenge traditional views and consider different or perhaps, new ways of approaching commerce that balance performance goals with responsibilities to employees, consumers and suppliers. Using an editorial approach of exploration, innovation and transformation, we believe that our readers will be enriched as they impact their organizations with worthwhile, enduring results.

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The Global Leadership Challenge p. 6
By Wayne Oppel

Leading the companies of today’s complex environment requires more than installing a designer coffee kiosk in the lobby. Today’s global organizations are often mired with competing political, social, and economic forces. They are increasingly populated by new emergent thinkers and entrants to the workforce. Their outlook will shape the future of businesses and organizations as we know them. Are you ready to engage the global leadership challenge?

An Intrepid Outlook at Organizational Change p. 11
An excerpt from: The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus
By Charles Manz

The exceptional insight of Manz is brought to bear with this practical look at the timeless application of Lewin’s change theory through the lens of Matthew 13. Change is inevitable, yet at times managers and executives are rendered ineffective at preparing to lead their organizations through transformation. Through the authentic wisdom of scripture, this article provides reinforcing principles to successfully implement change.

Why Employees Dislike Performance p. 14
Appraisals
By Gary Roberts and Michael Pregitzer

There is perhaps no more dreaded a practice in organizations than conducting employee performance appraisals. But why? If the proclivity of employee learning and development more than a prevailing trend, then why would employees have cause for concern when it comes to their appraisal? Roberts and Pregitzer translate their current research to provide sage perspective about employee apprehension to appraisals and compelling solutions for the practitioner.

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From the Editor:

Global business is dynamic. We are already at the precipice of imagining and experiencing what only a generation ago would have seemed too futuristic, perhaps even unrealistic. Yet as technology takes us through quantum advances in nearly every aspect of life – let alone business – we must take time to reflect on our progressive aims to make sense of them and apply them responsibly and meaningfully.

Global business is beyond the flattening of our world. Rather, perhaps it is more about the convergence of our world through commerce. And while myriad cultures and perspectives, political interests and social needs rise and sometimes clash, there becomes a distinct and profound necessity to understand with clarity the potential and promise of good practice in global business.

I want to respectfully challenge our readers – both those of casual and committed interests – to consider the two distinctive elements that will be reflected in the publication throughout my tenure as editor. The first is the enduring and penetrating truth and benefit of Scripture as exegetically applied to business; and secondly, the notion that commerce is not bound to a Western perspective alone. That, in fact, its very roots and tradition are far more inclusive of ideologies and viewpoints than what we often see reflected in media and even the academy.

Therefore, join me in this journey. We will learn and explore the emergent practice of global business. We will seek innovative ways to approach commerce that produce holistic and advantageous outcomes for organizations, employees and global constituents. Through it all, we may find our own hearts renewed as we observe and commemorate how lives and societies are transformed.

Julianne R. Cenac
Executive Editor

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