Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum

Foreword

The conversation on whether and how to teach ethics in business schools has already gone on for several decades and I do not expect it to come to an end soon. There are many reasons for this, not the least important of which is that one’s views on these issues depend critically on more fundamental positions about matters like the ultimate purpose of business, human flourishing, and the connection between human fulfillment, however conceived, and professional activity; all matters on which there is no reason to expect that we will ever secure universal agreement.

Still, this is not the end of the story. Often we can provide the outlines of solutions that answer such questions to our own satisfaction, and this is already a great achievement. ...