Teaching ethics effectively

Authors

• B A Prajapati, S K School of Business Management

Document Type

Discussions (Round Table)

Abstract

Stating his proposition pithily, B A Prajapati, Professor and Head, S K School of Business Management, North Gujarat University, enumerates the three basic areas of managerial decision-making: choices about the law, choices about economic and social issues beyond the domain of the law – the ‘people values’, and choices between self-interest and the interests of the company/its stakeholders. Business ethics is the study of how moral norms apply to these activities and goals of commercial enterprise and how the business context poses its own unique problems for the moral person who acts as an agent of this system. Exercising power with responsibility calls for knowledge, perception, a well-developed philosophy, and a set of ethical values, which can be systematically developed through pedagogy. After outlining the theories of ethics and the objectives of teaching ethics courses, Prajapati elaborates how ethics modules can be incorporated into different courses. The case study method would capture the synergy of theory and practice in business ethics. There is a need to restructure management education and place ethics at the centre of its mission.

Recommended Citation

Prajapati, B A (2002) "Teaching ethics effectively," IIMB Management Review: Vol. 14: Iss. 4, Article 12.
Available at: https://research.iimb.ac.in/imr/vol14/iss4/12

Publication Date

12-1-2002

First Page

73

Last Page

75