Home⇛Psychology and Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal⇛vol. 43 no. 7 (2025)

Ecclesiastically Driven Organization: Its Transformation

Bettina Malait | Yolanda C. Sayson | Ily Abella | Eddie E. Llamedo | Christopher Biore | Judy Ann Ferrater-Gimen

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

The process of decision-making and its implementation is corporate governance, which encompasses the efforts of stakeholders, including the government, the community, providers, and the corporate participants, that result in gained trust, moral values, ethics, and confidence. Conflicts of interest, oversight, accountability, transparency, and ethics violations are common in corporate governance. This article explored leaders' experiences integrating ecclesiastical principles into corporate governance and utilized the results to develop an ecclesiastical-based corporate governance model. In addition, it also examined the problems the leaders encountered and appreciated their aspirations to transform their businesses into an ecclesiastically driven organization (EDO). This qualitative study employed a single case study research design. It was conducted with ten (10) senior-level executives of five (5) small enterprises, one (1) medium enterprise, and four (4) large enterprises. Every senior leader of SMEs and LEs who participated has been established in their roles for seven (7) years up to thirty (30) years. The data gathered represented different business sectors across Luzon and Visayas. The participants were each interviewed and answered semi-structured and open-ended questions, and their answers were meticulously reviewed and analyzed for emergent themes. The findings in this study revealed specific training and systems to incorporate ecclesiastical principles. Integrating ecclesiastical principles into corporate governance could be smoothed to result in transformation into an ecclesiastically driven organization.



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