Teaching Business Ethics Through Popular Feature Films: An Experiential Approach

Based on our experience in teaching ethics, we have developed, tested, and presented in this article a program of instruction that rests on four pillars: popular feature films, a six-stage ethical decision-making process, the principles necessary to address ethical situations, and the classroom inst...

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Authors: O'Boyle, Edward J. 1937- (Author) ; Sandonà, Luca (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2014
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 121, Issue: 3, Pages: 329-340
Further subjects:B Teaching Business Ethics
B Deontology
B Principles to address moral situations
B and virtue ethics
B Popular feature films
B Six-stage decision-making process
B Consequentialism
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Summary:Based on our experience in teaching ethics, we have developed, tested, and presented in this article a program of instruction that rests on four pillars: popular feature films, a six-stage ethical decision-making process, the principles necessary to address ethical situations, and the classroom instructor. Taken separately, there is nothing new or unique in these pillars. Taken together, however, and to our knowledge, these four pillars, including the requirement that each student is expected to prepare a written abstract of the film prior to the classroom discussion of that film in which the student is expected to demonstrate a practical application of ethical principles to actual and concrete moral situations, constitute a new, unique, and tested way to teach ethics to undergraduate students of management and economics.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1724-0