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Report: Exploring the Role of Virtues in Building a Values-driven Workplace Culture
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This report, developed by the UK Bahá’í Office of Public Affairs in collaboration with Apax, delves into how virtues can shape and sustain a values-driven workplace culture. Apax, a social enterprise supporting vulnerable adults, has integrated the Virtues Project International into its operations, fostering a culture rooted in kindness, unity, and service. Through interviews with staff and residents, the report explores how virtues enhance personal and professional growth, encourage collective ownership, and strengthen social cohesion. Key themes include the intentional application of virtues, the role of reflection in promoting unity, and the cultivation of an empowering, inclusive environment. The study highlights Apax’s commitment to aligning thought, word, and action—demonstrating how workplaces can be spaces of individual and societal transformation. This insightful report offers valuable lessons for organisations striving to foster meaningful, values-centred cultures.
What does economic equality look like?
The work of the UK Bahá’i Office of Public Affairs in the area of Economic Justice is guided by the belief that eliminating extremes of wealth and poverty is a requisite for peace and true prosperity.
Economic Justice necessitates the establishment of policies that ensure fairness in economic processes, avoiding biases that benefit specific societal segments. This pursuit underscores the importance of robust institutional frameworks to discourage disproportionate accumulations of wealth at the upper echelons and insufficient accumulations at the lower strata, promoting the development of an equitable economic system that serves the well-being of all.
The wealth distribution advocated in the Bahá'í Writings does not necessarily imply absolute equality, recognising the inherent diversity among individuals in their abilities. Consequently, variations in social and economic standing are anticipated, as people possess distinct capacities. In accordance with this principle, individuals receive remuneration corresponding to their diverse abilities, resources or inclination, acknowledging the inherent distinctions in human capacities.
We focus on contributing to discourses on economic inequality in the United Kingdom by collaborating with a wide range of organizations to facilitate constructive dialogue and collectively contribute to public thought and policy.
"The welfare of any segment of humanity is inextricably bound up with the welfare of the whole... There is no justification for continuing to perpetuate structures, rules, and systems that manifestly fail to serve the interests of all peoples.”
-The Bahá'í Writings