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Teaching ethics in business education -- what is our responsibility ?

  • 1.  Teaching ethics in business education -- what is our responsibility ?

    Posted 08-08-2002 10:38
    From: esteban.trevino@neoris.com [mailto:esteban.trevino@neoris.com]


    Ken Friedman,

    Thank you for your contribution, I found it full of references and
    interesting point and some statement which make me wonder..

    Your statement "The note that Charles Wankel posted to the Business
    Ethics
    list today..." may be referring to what I sent yesterday and was posted
    by
    Charles today. Though you may also be referring to something entirely
    different.

    Please confirm and verify that you where not referring to my post in
    which
    I state ... "I find more useful: Ethics - the study of sustainable
    consistent values and rules". I sent the post because I perceive a
    general
    degradation of morality, service, and values, which prevents effective
    dialogue using 'morality' and the other terms as the foundations of
    ethics.
    From a business perspective, a sustainable business in the long run
    becomes
    much better than unsustainable ones... thus "the study of sustainable
    consistent values and rules" in business can be enriched from ethics...

    In response to the interrogative "what is our responsibility?"

    Each individual takes on the responsibility for their actions and the
    lack
    of actions. Teaching, involves both the training in the use of tools
    (providing the tool) and the education as to when to use the tools...
    Introducing just the tools, would be like giving a student matches and
    gasoline and then claiming that we have no responsibility for what
    happens
    next...


    Cordially,

    Esteban