Teaching Business Ethics

Teaching Techniques

Teaching Methods

Teaching Issues

Teaching issues

There are many issues surrounding the teaching of business ethics. Prominent among them are the following:

1	Independence or integration?
2	Specialist or non-specialist teaching?
3	Who should teach it?
4	How much ethical theory?
5	Descriptive or Prescriptive?
6	Affective or cognitive?
7	Purely managerial or more than managerial?
8	Purely Micro or also Macro?

SOURCES: The above discussion has drawn on the following sources.
For issues 1, 2, 3: Cowton, J. and Cummins, J., 'Teaching business ethics in UK higher education: progress and prospects', Teaching Business Ethics, 7, 37-54.
For issue 4: the debate between Kaler and Sorrell in Business Ethics: A European Review (see Kaler, J. 1999. 'What's the good of ethical theory? 8:4, 206-213; Sorrell, T. 2000. 'The good of theory: a reply to Kaler', 9:1, 51-57; Kaler, J 2000. 'Putting ethical theory in its place', 9:3, 211-217).
For issue 5: the April 1994 edition of Business Ethics Quarterly, 4:2 (see in particular the two contributions by Trevino and Weaver, and articles by Donaldson and Werhane).
For issues 6, 7, 8: Kaler, J. 2000. 'Positioning business ethics in relation to management and political philosophy', Journal of Business Ethics, 24, 257-272.