Scholarly record
BUSINESS ETHICS AS PART OF STUDY PROGRAMS AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES
Abstract
Business ethics is a wide subject that can be applied to all moral or ethical issues that arise in a business environment. Recent business ethics scandals have created a moral minefield of shifting expectations and growing uncertainty about the responsibilities of business. Economies fare better thriving in environments free of scandals, in morally cleaner firms. Firms often start out making good, ethical decisions, but the line separating right from wrong can be easy to cross. The article aptly illustrates that 1. in the organizational culture literature and academic literature oriented to the role of business ethics found a debate between damaging ethical lapses and owerful human impulses for moral action and ethical education, 2. also faculties don´t support the need of a concentrated effort of business and technical schools to enhance the level of ethics in business practice. The purpose of the article is 1. to analyze studies on business ethics and education, 2. to analyze current situation in technical study programs in the field of necessity of business ethics education and to suggest effective solution based on experiential learning; 3. to point to the ability of the schools capacity to implement efficiently and sustainably ethical perspective into its programs and processes, 4. to show that faculties provide specialized ethics courses, subjects in their study programs (others faculties integrate the topic in several different courses across the curriculum). The article confirmed the necessity of Business ethics teaching in higher education as regards moral development of students as managers and entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
Publication Impact Profile
Publication details
References15
Bajorūnien I.S, Christauskas, Č., The role of education programs for small and medium sized business, Folia Univ. Agric. Stetin, Oeconomica, vol. 256, no. 48, pp 9- 16, 2007.
Cordeiro, W. P., The only solution to the decline in business ethics: ethical managers,. Teaching Business Ethics, vol. 7, no. 3, pp 265-277, 2003.
Crane, F.G., The Teaching of Business Ethics: An Imperative at Business Schools, Journal of Education for Business, vol. 79, no. 3, pp 149-151, 2004.
Christensen, L.J., Ethics, CSR, and Sustainability Education in the Financial Times Top 50 Global Business Schools: Baseline Data and Future Research Direction, Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 73, no. 1, pp 347-368, 2007.
King, P.M., Mayhew, M.J., Moral judgment development in higher education: Insights from the Defining Test, Journal of Moral Education, vol. 31, no. 3, pp 247-270, 2002.
Koehn, D., Transforming Our Students: Teaching Business Ethics Post Enron, Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, pp 137-151, 2005.
Matten, D, Moon, J., CSR Education in Europe, Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 54, pp. 323-337, 2004.
McPhail, K. J., Using Porridge to Teach Business Ethics: Reflections on a sit to Scotland‟s Most Notorious Prison and Some Thoughts on the Importance of Location, Teaching Business Ethics, vol. 6, no. 3, pp 355-369, 2002.
Molyneaux, D., After Andersen: an experience of integrating ethics into undergraduate accountancy education, Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 54, pp 385-398, 2004.
Norman, W., McDonald, Ch., Getting to the bottom of „triple bottom line, Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 14, no 2, pp 243-262, 2004.
Premeaux, S.R., Undergraduate Student Perceptions Regarding Cheating: Tier 1 versus Tier 2 AACSB Accredited Business Schools, Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 62, no. 4, pp 407-418, 2005.
Sims, R.R., Felton, E.L. Jr., Designing and Delivering Business Ethics Teaching and Learning, Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 63, no. 3, pp 297-312, 2006.
Stolowy, H., Nothing like the Enron affair could happen in France. European Accounting Review, 14(2), pp 405-415, 2005.
Velaquez, M.G., Business Ethics – Concepts & Cases, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2006.
Young, M.R., Experiential Learning = Hands-On + Minds-On, Marketing Education Review, vol. 12, no. 1, pp 44-54, 2002.
View or Download full articleAccess options
SWS access login
Login as SWS Scientific CommitteeLogin as SWS Scientific PartnerLogin as SWS AuthorAuthors and approved SWS contributors will read and export their own linked papers after identity matching by SWS profile, email and SGEM GlobalID.
For librarian assistance: [email protected]
Purchase Instant Access
- Article can be downloaded after successful payment.
- Article may be used according to SWS library access terms.
- Article cannot be redistributed.
