RT Article
T1 Business Students’ Insights into Their Development of Ethical Decision-Making
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 155
IS 1
SP 275
OP 287
A1 Mladenovic, Rosina
A2 Martinov-Bennie, Nonna
A2 Bell, Amani
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785668021
AB Motivated by the call for more research on students’ perceptions of their ethical development in business education programs, this study examines students’ reflections on how their understanding of ethics was challenged and/or changed, and what facilitated the development of ethical decision-making approaches in a first-year accounting course. The results indicate that students developed more sophisticated and contextualised views of ethical issues in business, government and social contexts including the need to consider their impact on various stakeholders. Students attributed this development to the various elements in the integrated course design including the real cases sourced in current newspaper articles, an ethical decision-making framework with various ethical perspectives, the reflective journal component and the ability to work in groups. These findings have implications for the design of effective ethics education programs in business.
K1 Group Work
K1 critical reflection
K1 Integrated ethics education
K1 ethical perspectives
K1 Ethical decision-making framework
K1 ethical decision-making
DO 10.1007/s10551-017-3523-5