The Course In Business Ethics: Why Don't The Philosophers Give Business Students What They Need?

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
George L. Pamental
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
Business Faculty ◽  
Business Programs

Ethical theory in business ethics texts lacks sufficient specificity to be used as a tool of analysis. The result is that business faculty do not see the course in business ethics as helpful to their students, and the students do not see the course as helpful in their careers.A further difficulty is the inclusion of material which is not seen by business faculty, as appropriate or germane to the practice of decision-making. Issues such as the legitimacy of the corporation, or capitalism versus Marxism, are of little interest or help to the person in business.Finally, the text cases are too often of a policy nature, and do not deal with issues faced by a majority of those in business. The result is the lack of engaging the moral imagination of the students.Unless the course is redesigned so that it is seen by business faculty as more relevant, it will continue to be required by only a small number of business programs.

scholarly journals Business Ethics and Ethics Education in American Business Programs

Competitio ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
John D. Keiser
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
American Business ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Teaching Ethics ◽  
Ethical Business ◽  
Business Programs ◽  
The Difference

This essay presents an overview of what American business programs cover in their curricula regarding ethics and the reasons behind teaching ethics-related material to business students. Topics for the paperinclude; requirements for having ethics in the curricula, broad perspectives of what constitutes ethical business practices, and the difference between professional ethics and business ethics. Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification: M14, A20

scholarly journals Business Ethics Education: One Management Educators Perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Niles
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Business Ethics Education ◽  
Business Faculty ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
The Past

Results from the 2005 National Business Ethics Survey (NBES) indicate that over half of employees observed at least one type of misconduct in the workplace during the past 12 months, with nearly 40% observing two or more violations (http://www.ethics.org). The President of the Ethics Resource Center, Dr. Patricia Harned, has stated that this statistic has not changed much over the past 5 years even though there is a rise in the number of companies that have implemented ethics programs (http://www.ethics.org) Business faculty has the opportunity to provide business students with ethical reasoning opportunities to meet these ethical challenges successfully.  AACSB has stated in their 2004 Ethics Education in Business Schools that…business education must encourage students to develop an understanding of the challenges surrounding business ethics and provide students with the tools to recognize and respond to ethical issues, both personally and organizationally (9). This paper outlines a proposed undergraduate business ethics education model that is developed in compliance with AACSB standards.

Moral Imagination in Organizational Problem-solving

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Vidaver-Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Organizational Problem

Abstract:This essay responds to Patricia Werhane’s 1994 Ruffin Lecture address, “Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision-making in Management,” using institutional theory as an analytical framework to explore conditions that either inhibit or promote moral imagination in organizational problem-solving. Implications of the analysis for managing organizational change and for business ethics theory development are proposed.

Moral Imagination in Organizational Problem-Solving: An Institutional Perspective

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (S1) ◽  
pp. 123-148
Author(s):  
Deborah Vidaver-Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Organizational Problem

Abstract:This essay responds to Patricia Werhane’s 1994 Ruffin Lecture address, “Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision-making in Management,” using institutional theory as an analytical framework to explore conditions that either inhibit or promote moral imagination in organizational problem-solving. Implications of the analysis for managing organizational change and for business ethics theory development are proposed.

Teaching Normatively

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Brian K. Steverson ◽  
Adriane D. Leithauser
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Business Faculty ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Teaching Business ◽  
Business Course ◽  
Approach To Teaching

This chapter offers a way to seamlessly, efficiently, and effectively integrate mission values into any core business course. It describes an approach to teaching business ethics developed over the past two decades and explains how that approach can be used by any business faculty to incorporate into their courses a substantive discussion of the role of mission values in contextualizing the specific knowledge and skills that business students are asked to master as they move through the curriculum. This approach to mission-driven business education is properly described as teaching normatively.

Moral Imagination in Organizational Problem-Solving

ruffin_darden ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 123-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Vidaver-Cohen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Organizational Problem

This essay responds to Patricia Werhane's 1994 Ruffin Lecture address, "Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision-making in Management," using institutional theory as an analytical framework to explore conditions that either inhibit or promote moral imagination in organizational problem-solving. Implications of the analysis for managing organizational change and for business ethics theory development are proposed.

Teaching Normatively

2021 ◽  
pp. 159-177
Author(s):  
Brian K. Steverson ◽  
Adriane D. Leithauser
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Business Faculty ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Teaching Business ◽  
Business Course ◽  
Approach To Teaching

This chapter offers a way to seamlessly, efficiently, and effectively integrate mission values into any core business course. It describes an approach to teaching business ethics developed over the past two decades and explains how that approach can be used by any business faculty to incorporate into their courses a substantive discussion of the role of mission values in contextualizing the specific knowledge and skills that business students are asked to master as they move through the curriculum. This approach to mission-driven business education is properly described as teaching normatively.

scholarly journals Business Ethics Decision-Making: Examining Partial Reflective Awareness

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2635
Author(s):  
Marli Gonan Božac ◽  
Katarina Kostelić ◽  
Morena Paulišić ◽  
Charles G. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Ethical Business ◽  
Reflective Awareness ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Context Characteristics

The aim of this research was to examine partial reflective awareness in ethical business choices in Croatia. The ethical decision-making is interlinked with sustainable practices, but it is also its prerequisite. Thus, better understanding of business ethics decision-making provides a basis for designing and implementing sustainability in a corporate setting. The research was done on student populations who will soon carry important roles and make important decisions for individuals, organizations, and society. The field research was conducted using Kohlberg’s scenarios. The results reveal that the process of decision-making goes through the lenses of respondents’ own preferred ethics. However, the reflective awareness of respondents’ preferred ethics is skewed and regularities in that deviations point out to the relevance of the context characteristics and arousal factors. In addition, the individuals do not use all available information in the assessment process. The revealed partial reflective awareness contributes to explanation of why people have problems with justifying their choices. As there are many examples of unethical behavior in the environment that remain unpunished, it is necessary to raise awareness of the issue. Improvement in reflective awareness would contribute to more sustainable ethical choices and reveal a possibility of an intervention design within the higher education framework.

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