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An Experiential Approach for Teaching Business Ethics

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Teaching Business Ethics

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Despite the recognition in the business literature of the need to include ethics in all business courses, ethics is still given at best a perfunctory treatment by many instructors. This paper presents two pedagogical methodologies that the authors have used with success for teaching ethics to undergraduate business students. The approaches described in this paper are founded on the belief that in order to raise students' consciousness about ethical issues, students must be challenged to experience conscious ethical conflicts and to incorporate their own values into solving ethical problems. The power of working through ethical conflicts lies in its ability to force such a confrontation and, through it, to achieve enhanced self understanding.

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  1. Bryant College, 50 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI, 02917-1284, USA

    Richard S. Glass & Joseph Bonnici

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Glass, R.S., Bonnici, J. An Experiential Approach for Teaching Business Ethics. Teaching Business Ethics 1, 183–195 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009793422982

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