Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Education: Shifting the Worldview

Taken from the first page: Business educators walk a road where ethical signposts are unclear, new scandals lead to new laws, and society’s increased expectations change the parameters for what we teach. In this environment, how we sensitize our students (i.e., how we teach our students about business ethics and social responsibility) becomes central to the influence we might have in shaping their thinking. As the basic pedagogical approaches we use are retooled, the premises of our instruction are reconsidered, and the sources of our assumptions are questioned (see, e.g., Koehn, 2005). Helping students become more socially responsible and ethically sensitive is a substantive part of our responsibility as we prepare a new generation of business practitioners. We face a difficult struggle, for even as we offer new approaches for dealing with changing business environments, less responsible individuals and businesses learn new ways to prosper through immoral means (Callahan, 2004).

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