The Effectiveness of Corporate Ethics On-site Visits for Teaching Business Ethics
This paper describes and reports the evaluation ofusing corporate ethics field site visits in a businessethics course. The dilemma of how to design ameaningful business ethics course has been the subjectof debate for business school ethics instructors andis reviewed here. The structure of the site v...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2001
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Teaching business ethics
Year: 2001, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-156 |
Further subjects: | B
Teaching Business Ethics
B designing business ethics courses B field site visits B Corporate Ethics Officers B Gender differences B measuring students' ethical attitudes |
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Summary: | This paper describes and reports the evaluation ofusing corporate ethics field site visits in a businessethics course. The dilemma of how to design ameaningful business ethics course has been the subjectof debate for business school ethics instructors andis reviewed here. The structure of the site visitsand how student work is evaluated is presented. Twostudies evaluating the field site visits were done. The first study utilized qualitative methods toevaluate students' reactions as well as comments fromthe corporate ethics officers who host the visits. The second study utilized a pretest-posttest surveydesign to quantitatively evaluate student reactions tothe site visits. Results showed a statisticallysignificant, positive change in students' attitudes. This effect was moderated by gender, showing astronger positive effect for females than for males. |
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ISSN: | 1573-1944 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Teaching business ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1011426420114 |