Integrating Ethics Content into the Core Business Curriculum: Do Core Teaching Materials Do the Job?

Some business schools have integrated business ethics issues into their core functional courses rather than simply offering a separate ethics course. To accommodate such a strategy, functional faculty members usually teach ethical issues, a task for which they are rarely trained. However, learning m...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics 2004-04, Vol.51 (1), p.53-62
Main Authors: Baetz, Mark C., Sharp, David J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Banking ethics
Business education
Business ethics
Business schools
Business studies
Case studies
Comparable worth
Corporate responsibility
Curricula
Decision making
Educational materials
Ethical behavior
Ethical codes
Ethical instruction
Ethics
Instructional materials
Learning
Organizational behavior
Professional ethics
Social ethics
Social responsibility
Students
Studies
Teaching
Textbooks
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Summary:Some business schools have integrated business ethics issues into their core functional courses rather than simply offering a separate ethics course. To accommodate such a strategy, functional faculty members usually teach ethical issues, a task for which they are rarely trained. However, learning materials are available: some core course textbooks provide additional coverage of ethics, and case studies (and accompanying teaching notes for instructors) are also available which cover ethical issues. This paper reports on an analysis of these materials. We find that a sample of the leading textbooks provides only very superficial coverage of ethical issues. Cases provide a wide range of issues suitable for class discussion, but their teaching notes in many cases provide little guidance for instructors unfamiliar with teaching ethics. Thus there remains a need for teaching resources for business faculty new to teaching ethics.
ISSN:0167-4544
1573-0697
DOI:10.1023/B:BUSI.0000032343.68115.dd