Moreover, the business enterprise itself plays a fundamental role in public life. As they address the needs of their companies, as they evaluate, judge, and act on behalf of their businesses, corporate executives and entrepreneurs are constantly making moral decisions that affect not only themselves and their organizations but also the broader community and society at large. In mediating conflicting claims to financial and social prosperity a business leader must draw upon his or her convictions, beliefs, and experience about what is the right thing to do. The executive is not lost at sea. Ethical and moral values, like gyroscopes, provide the steady guides that ground the executive's decision making, as well as the structures and systems that support the executive's enterprise.
Business is a calling, a vocation.
Business people employ their own talents and skills, the assets of their companies, and the structures and resources of the wider society for the creation and maintenance of wealth, employment, and products or services. The business leader needs to be able to perform, to answer the call, with skill, competence, and peace of mind. The Conference welcomes believers who are open to and respectful of one another's religious traditions. Grounded in the Roman Catholic tradition, the WBC is ecumenical, open to all who share the conviction that ethics and values grow out of one's religious heritage. It affirms that the decision-making process must be laced with a quest for God's will and that peace of mind and peace of soul follow from the quest.