Enterprise Management: Ethics, spiritual blend recommended

CUIB schooled businessmen in Douala on the topic on Tuesday, July 7, 2015. “In pursuing any economic activity, good conduct, character and worldview are critical to take one to greater heights.

It is not just about having people to deliver, but having the right people,” the President and Pro-Chancellor of the Catholic University Institute of Buea (CUIB), Rev. Father George Jingwa Nkeze, told businessmen at a meeting with the corporate world in Douala on Tuesday, July 7, 2015.

Situating the place of spirituality in business, the Pro-Chancellor spoke at length on self-motivation, discipline and a right mindset as prerequisite for enterprises success. Blending business ethics and spirituality has worked in CUIB with its competent lecturers and over 1,300 students in business, engineering, information technology, business and technology and non-degree and certificated programmes.

Using the blend, some students came out with great innovations and discoveries like online hospital and “egussi melon” cracking machine. He enjoined enterprise executives to focus on the knowhow and not just the certificates job seekers brandish at interviews.

For the country to emerge even before 2035, workers who are morally upright, spiritually strong, creative and innovative, are needed to transform stumbling blocks into stepping stones. And such workers, Father Nkeze said, should be trained in entrepreneurial universities.