Teaching ethics across the management curriculum : a handbook for international faculty

384 Pages·2015·17.16 MB·English

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Teaching Ethics Across the
Management Curriculum
A Handbook for International
Faculty
Kemi Ogunyemi
Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum: A Handbook for
International Faculty
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Abstract
The need to embed business ethics in the teaching of management
disciplines has at times given rise to a debate as to whether ethics should
be taught as a standalone course or in an embedded manner. So far, the
majority of opinions favor a consensus that both approaches are relevant
and should be used complementarily for optimal results.
This book provides unique insights into the experience of seasoned
academics regarding embedding business ethics into their teaching of the
practice of management. Its multidisciplinary approach makes its content
very rich, since the insights of our colleagues from within their fields
are invaluable. The book therefore functions as a handbook for faculty
as well as a complementary textbook for the business student (to high-
light the ethical dilemmas for the different managerial functional roles).
Disciplines covered include decision- making, strategy and agency theory;
management accounting and m acroeconomics; operations m anagement,
supply chain management and the m anagement of information systems;
marketing and consumer behavior; human resources management, career
management, negotiation, managing corporate power and politics, and
community and investor relations.
The Handbook is a platform for faculty to share their experiences
of how to teach ethical profitability. This contributes to resolving the
concerns that faculty may experience when they wish to incorporate
ethics into their teaching but feel that they lack the preparation for
doing this or ideas on how to go about it. It thus helps faculty ensure
their students grasp the moral dimension of running a business when,
for example, drawing up sustainable business plans, raising finance,
appraising employees, executing operation strategies, buying software, or
implementing a customer loyalty plan.
The chapters describe each discipline briefly, raise the typical ethical
issues therein and suggest strategies for teaching and exercises or projects.
Every school that wishes to teach business students to act responsibly will
find this book useful. The developing country versus developed country
perspectives included in each chapter may be particularly interesting to
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business schools that have very diverse student bodies. The book can
also be used as a resource for in-company training toward attaining and
sustaining an ethical culture.
Keywords
accounting, business ethics, career management, common good
approach, community and investors, consumer behavior, corporate
power and politics, curriculum, developed versus developing country
perspectives, duty ethics, embedding ethics, ethical decision making,
ethical management of human resources, ethical theories, ethics in
strategy, frameworks for ethical choices, information systems, justice,
macroeconomics, marketing ethics, negotiation ethics, operations
management, pedagogy, PRME, rights, supply chain, teaching ethics,
utilitarianism, values, virtue ethics
Contents
Foreword ........................................................................................xi
Chapter 1 Teaching Ethics Across the Management
Curriculum .......................................................................1
Kemi Ogunyemi
Module 1: Making Decisions .........................................................15
Chapter 2 Teaching Ethics in Business Policy
(Strategy) Courses ...........................................................17
Michael E. Cafferky
Chapter 3 Ethical Foundations for Organizational Decision
Making at the Operational and Strategic Levels ...............39
Thomas G. Pittz and Melissa Cast
Chapter 4 Ethics and Agency Theory in Management .....................55
Unsal Sigri and Umit Ercan
Module 2: Money Matters ..............................................................77
Chapter 5 Embedding Ethics and Social Responsibility in
Management Accounting Courses ...................................79
Jan Bell, Cathleen S. Burns, and Donna R. Sockell
Chapter 6 Ethical Dimensions in the Teaching of Economics
and the Tradition of Critical Political Economy .............119
Patrick O’Sullivan
Module 3: On the Shop Floor ......................................................139
Chapter 7 Teaching Ethics in Operations Management .................141
Arnd Huchzermeier, Eva Kohl, and Stefan Spinler
Chapter 8 Teaching Ethics in Supply Chain Management .............159
Gerald Burch, Walter Kendall, and Joanna Shaw
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Chapter 9 Teaching Ethics in Decision Making: Embedding
Moral Reasoning in the Management of Information
Systems .........................................................................179
Olayinka David-West
Module 4: Selling the Product .....................................................199
Chapter 10 Embedding Ethical Issues in Marketing Management
Classes: An Instructor’s Guide .......................................201
Uchenna Uzo
Chapter 11 Incorporating Ethics in Teaching Consumer Behavior:
An Educational Strategy Based on Principles for
Responsible Management Education ............................213
Consuelo Garcia-de-la-Torre, Gloria Camacho, and
Osmar Arandia
Module 5: People Management and Soft Skills ...............................227
Chapter 12 Teaching Ethics in Human Resources Management ......229
Silke Bustamante
Chapter 13 Teaching Ethics in Career Management ........................245
Olusegun Babalola and Ifedapo Adeleye
Chapter 14 Ethics in Negotiation ....................................................259
Barney Jordan and David Venter
Chapter 15 Ethics in Managing Corporate Power and Politics .........277
Duane Windsor
Chapter 16 Ethical Dimensions of Community and Investor
Relations Communication and Governance for
Sustainable Management ..............................................303
Judith Y. Weisinger and Edward L. Quevedo
Chapter 17 Future of Ethics Education in Management
Curricula ......................................................................323
Emeka Enwere and Uchenna Uzo
CoNTENTS ix
Chapter Summaries ............................................................................331
About the Authors ...............................................................................343
Index .................................................................................................357