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Duties Owed in Serving Students: The Importance of Teaching Moral Reasoning and Theories of Ethical Leadership in Educating Business Students

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This article concerns the importance of teaching moral reasoning and ethical leadership to all undergraduate students and in particular makes the case that students in business especially need familiarity with these capacities and theories given the complex world in which they will find themselves. The corollary to this analysis is the claim that content on moral reasoning and ethical leadership be mandatory for all business majors and that all degrees require course material on these subjects.

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Notes

  1. D. Bok (2006). Our underachieving colleges. (New Jersey: Princeton University Press), 38.

  2. Ibid, 38.

  3. R. De George. (2003). ‘Ethics, academic freedom and academic tenure’, Journal of Academic Ethics, 1,1, 11–25, 12.

  4. W. R. Harper (1905). The university and democracy. In The Trend in Higher Education. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press), 20.

  5. As quoted in S. Sucher (2007). Teaching the moral leader. (New York: Routledge), 12.

  6. C. Guilli, N. Kohler & M. Patriquin (2007). The Great University Cheating Scandal. Maclean’s., February 12th, 32.

  7. R. Hautpman (2002). Dishonesty in the Academy. Academe. http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/2002/02nd/02ndhau.htm, 3.

  8. C. Bodkin & T. Stevenson (2007) University Students’ Perceptions Regarding Ethical Marketing Practices: Affecting Change through Instructional Techniques. Journal of Business Ethics, 72, 3, 207.

  9. S. Cahn & J. Pastore, Jr. (2003). Decision-modelling: An Objective Approach to Moral Reasoning. Teaching Business Ethics, 7, 4, 337.

  10. Bodkin and Stevenson, 220.

  11. J. Autry (2001). The Servant Leader 10–21.

  12. Parry and Proctor-Thomspon 77.

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Poff, D.C. Duties Owed in Serving Students: The Importance of Teaching Moral Reasoning and Theories of Ethical Leadership in Educating Business Students. J Acad Ethics 5, 25–31 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-007-9040-x

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