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Pat Werhane made an impact in the undergraduate classroom well beyond the Donaldson and Werhane textbook and well beyond North America. This chapter shows the relevance of Werhane’s work for a range of business students and shows how that work has contributed to making business ethics something other than an oxymoron, something more than (dry, academic) philosophy, something relevant in business and life. Examples are drawn from fifteen years of teaching undergraduate business and professional ethics classes in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Werhane’s contribution is charted under the headings of concepts, resources and pedagogy, showing specific contributions made in each field. In concepts the focus is on moral imagination and a focus on action, in resources specific mention is made of textbooks and individual articles, and in terms of pedagogy the chapter describes the influence of both Werhane’s conference presentations and her use of so-called new media. In all of these Werhane is shown to have influenced, positively, the teaching of business ethics in the undergraduate classroom.
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There are many versions of Werhane’s article or chapter on the Rashomon effect. The version from which the quote is taken has the earliest publication date and is reprinted in Hartman (2005), where the cited section can be found on page 155. The closing lines relate to truth in all the versions I have seen. The Henry James quote comes from The Art of the Novel (1934) p62.
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Many beside the author have been involved in the design and delivery of the courses at the core of this chapter. Thousands of students have taken the courses. Three colleagues at the University of South Australia, Chris Provis, Sukhbir Sanhu and Tim Rogers, were particularly influential in the design of the courses. Many others contributed to the review sessions which followed each delivery.
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Harris, H. (2018). Making Ethics Practical in the Undergraduate Classroom. In: Freeman, R.E., Dmytriyev, S., Wicks, A.C. (eds) The Moral Imagination of Patricia Werhane: A Festschrift. Issues in Business Ethics(), vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74292-2_12
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