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The Need to Personalise Business Ethics Education
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Journal of Business Ethics Education
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2023-02-01
Volume
19
Issue
22
Start page
153
End page
168
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Abstract
Can business ethics textbooks and modules prepare business students to manage ethical challenges if they bypass students’ personal ethics? This paper is an academic reflection by a Higher Education, business ethics tutor in the UK and Ireland. It charts a pedagogic journey of moving away from lecturing based on the contents of the standard, “impersonal”, business ethics textbook, to moving towards facilitating interaction among students about their ethics in all parts of life, and especially “at work” in their part-time employment. The rationale for this pedagogic shift is supported by excerpts from Journal of Business Ethics Education (JBEE) articles and by current, UK, Higher Education (HE), quality frameworks. Qualitative student feedback on their experience of this more personal design of a business ethics module is included. Ten exercise suggestions and resources are offered. Business ethics textbook authors and tutors are recommended to begin their content with exercises in personal ethics.
Keywords
personal ethics, business ethics, at work, textbook, UK resource
Publisher
Neilson Journals Publishing
Citation
McGrane, F 2023, 'The Need to Personalise Business Ethics Education', Journal of Business Ethics Education, vol. 19, no. 2022, pp. 153-168. https://doi.org/10.5840/jbee2022199