Business ethics education

About the Work of Ethics : Joining Business and Liberal Education

The new business ethics.

, CBC's Marketplace 1 aired the results of an undercover survey of 50 dental offices. The story revealed a wide disparity in treatment estimates as the reporter received quotes ranging from nothing to $9,000. The implication was that many dentists were in business without an ethical rudder. The Marketplace scenario was predictable. The very proposition that dentists are blatantly in business ma...

Business Ethics without Stakeholders

One of the most influential ideas in the field of business ethics has been the suggestion that ethical conduct in a business context should be analyzed in terms of a set of fiduciary obligations toward various “stakeholder” groups. Moral problems, according to this view, involve reconciling such obligations in cases where stakeholder groups have conflicting interests. The question posed in this...

Medical ethics education.

There has never been much doubt that medical ethics in Dunstan's sense of 'the obligations of a moral nature which govern the practice of medicine' (1) has been an important part of medical education for at least two and a half thousand years. But in a second sense of medical ethics-philosophical or critical medical ethics (2)-the subject is very much a newcomer to medical curricula, with the p...

Integration of Business Sustainability Education into the Business Curriculum

Business sustainability in all dimensions of economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (EGSEE) performance is gaining acceptance as many global stock exchanges either encourage or require their listed companies to issue sustainability reports and investors worldwide demand sustainability performance information. More than 8, 000 companies worldwide are disclosing various EGSEE di...