Toward Assessing Business Ethics Education

Toward Assessing Business Ethics Education
Author: Diane L. Swanson
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1617351644

Toward Assessing Business Ethics Education, edited by Diane L. Swanson and Dann G. Fisher of Kansas State University, is a sequel to their book Advancing Business Ethics Education in the Ethics in Practice IAP book series. The focus on assessment in this second book is a timely response to the urgent search among business schools for ways to teach and assess ethics at a time when the public’s faith in corporations and business schools has been undermined greatly by the failure of both to respond to widespread corruption and scandals in the business sector. Although no one expects business education alone to resolve these problems, the distinguished scholars represented in this book advocate that business schools should at least do their part by exposing their students to decision models that incorporate ethical dimensions on behalf of corporate stakeholders and society at large. As the book’s title conveys, it is then important to assess key learning objectives to insure that business students graduate knowing ethics fundamentals and armed with the ability to recognize ethical dilemmas and possible solutions during the course of their careers. This book will speak to all who are interested in accountability for business ethics education, especially business school deans, university administrators, faculty members, students, and prospective employers. This audience will find that the enterprise of assessing business ethics education is advanced in three ways. First, the book functions as a venue for distinguished scholars to share the innovative ways that they are assessing ethics coverage in courses and degree programs. Second, these authors identify what needs to be assessed and the means for doing so. Third, the book serves not only as a guide to assessment, but also as a platform for expanding and improving ethics coverage in business schools. Moreover, an important take away for readers is the provision of a simple formula, first advocated by Diane L. Swanson and William C. Frederick (University of Pittsburgh) in 2005, for delivering ethics education that minimizes assessment errors. By following this formula, business schools can provide assurances that ethics will not be assessed as being sufficient when it is woefully inadequate or even missing in the curriculum and that it cannot be distorted, diluted, or trivialized by uninformed coverage and still pass inspection. Avoiding these assessment errors is critical in an educational environment in which weak accrediting standards for ethics go hand in hand with spotty, uniformed coverage that would not be tolerated for other business disciplines.

The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics

The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics
Author: Eugene Heath
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1004
Release: 2018-02-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317655419

The field of business ethics continues to expand intellectually and geographically. During the past five decades, scholars have developed and deepened their inquiries into the ethics of commercial and corporate conduct. This Companion provides a novel overview of the discipline of business ethics, covering the major areas of the field as well as new and emerging topics. The eight thematic units range over an extraordinary set of subjects and include chapters on the history and pedagogy of business ethics, moral philosophy, the nature of business, responsibilities within the firm, economic institutions, the 2008 financial crisis, globalization, and business ethics in different regions of the world. Led by a well-respected editorial team, this unique volume gathers an international array of experts whose various critical approaches yield insights from areas such as public policy, economics, law, and history, in addition to business and philosophy. With its fresh analyses, wide scope, and clarity of approach, this volume will be an essential addition to library collections in business, management, and applied ethics.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
Author: Robert W. Kolb
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 4074
Release: 2018-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 148338151X

Spans the relationships among business, ethics, and society by including numerous entries that feature broad coverage of corporate social responsibility, the obligation of companies to various stakeholder groups, the contribution of business to society and culture, and the relationship between organizations and the quality of the environment.

Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education

Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education
Author: Wankel, Charles
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 751
Release: 2011-12-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1613505116

"This book is an examination of the inattention of business schools to moral education, addressing lessons learned from the most recent business corruption scandals and financial crises, and also questioning what we're teaching now and what should be considering in educating future business leaders to cope with the challenges of leading with integrity in the global environment"--Provided by publisher.

Management Education for Integrity

Management Education for Integrity
Author: Charles Wankel
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2011-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1780520689

Explains how curricula should be streamlined and rejuvenated to ensure a high level of integrity in management education, providing numerous examples of new tools, teaching methods, integrity sensitization and development exercises and ethical management education assessment approaches.

Embedding CSR into Corporate Culture

Embedding CSR into Corporate Culture
Author: D. Swanson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-02-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137300086

Embedding CSR into Corporate Culture demonstrates that a new frontier for corporate social responsibility is possible in theory and practice. The key idea - discovery leadership - enables corporate managers to deal effectively with problems, issues, and value clashes occurring at the corporation-society interface.

Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education

Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education
Author: Charles Wankel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Business ethics
ISBN: 9781613505106

"This book is an examination of the inattention of business schools to moral education, addressing lessons learned from the most recent business corruption scandals and financial crises, and also questioning what we're teaching now and what should be considering in educating future business leaders to cope with the challenges of leading with integrity in the global environment"--Provided by publisher.

Handbook of Research on Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibilities

Handbook of Research on Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibilities
Author: Daniel E. Palmer
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2015-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466674776

While skeptics once saw the concept of business ethics as an oxymoron, modern businesses are proving them wrong. Success depends not only on educating young professionals about ethical practices, but on the implementation of these practices in all aspects of a company. The Handbook of Research on Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibilities explores the fundamental concepts that keep companies successful in the era of globalization and the internet. Investigating the implementation of best practices and how ethics can be taught to the next generation of business experts, this handbook is an essential reference source for students, academics, business managers, or anyone interested in the increasingly interdisciplinary field of business ethics and its applications in the world today.

Current Issues in Libraries, Information Science and Related Fields

Current Issues in Libraries, Information Science and Related Fields
Author: Anne Woodsworth
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1784416371

This volume is unusual in that the theme is quite broad in scope yet focused on a specific topic; innovations and boundary-pushing studies in areas not usually found in library literature. It examines the periphery of the field surveyed in previous volumes. The chapters are grouped in two categories: professional issues and transforming services.

The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education

The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education
Author: Richard M.S. Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 799
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134511515

Many enquiries into the state of accounting education/training, undertaken in several countries over the past 40 years, have warned that it must change if it is to be made more relevant to students, to the accounting profession, and to stakeholders in the wider community. This book’s over-riding aim is to provide a comprehensive and authoritative source of reference which defines the domain of accounting education/training, and which provides a critical overview of the state of this domain (including emerging and cutting edge issues) as a foundation for facilitating improved accounting education/training scholarship and research in order to enhance the educational base of accounting practice. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Education highlights the key drivers of change - whether in the field of practice on the one hand (e.g. increased regulation, globalisation, risk, and complexity), or from developments in the academy on the other (e.g. pressures to embed technology within the classroom, or to meet accreditation criteria) on the other. Thirty chapters, written by leading scholars from around the world, are grouped into seven themed sections which focus on different facets of their respective themes – including student, curriculum, pedagogic, and assessment considerations.