Coherent Narratives
Kemi Ogunyemi
Lagos Business School
Teaching Ethics to Grown-Ups?
It is a fact that people attending business schools and other higher educational institutions to acquire management knowledge and skills are adults. Yet, there are scholars who have argued that ethics and character building are best done while the subject of learning is very young and that it is not possible to teach ethics to an adult.1 Reasons given for this position include that the adult student can no longer learn new values and that if the adult student is not already ethical in life in general, there is no point attempting to teach him or her ethics in business (or in any other aspect of life for that matter). This ...
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