Integrating Managerial Ethics into the Business Communication Curriculum

Brown, Paula; Mausehund, Jean

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“…They address issues of how students apply ethical principles and how future business leaders can be prepared, but they do not assess practitioner preferences. Brown and Mausehund ( 1997) designed a mock company structure for teaching ethics in the ; classroom, focusing on selected ethical issues and situations. They reported a list of 24 ethical issues, rated from most to least severe, compiled by the Ethics Resource Center in Washington, DC. Their focus, however, was on classroom and student per-.…”

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Ethical Preferences among Business Leaders: Implications for Business Schools

Conaway

Fernandez

2000

Business Communication Quarterly

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Since 1976, the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) has encouraged business schools to include ethics in their curricula. Because lan guage is the means for conveying values, including ethical values, business com munication faculty play an important role in deciding what should be taught, and how. But until very recently, most researchers failed to look specifically at actual practices and perceptions in the workplace. To address that need, we conducted a survey of 250 business leaders concerning their ethical preferences and compared our results with an earlier study of business faculty and students. The survey, adapted from one used in the Arthur Andersen Business Ethics Program, consists of 20 narratives which presented respondents with the need to judge the impor tance of certain issues and their approval or disapproval of the action or decision described. We found no significant differences in responses to the 14 items which addressed ethical issues in such areas as creating health and environmental risks, taking credit when credit is not due, focusing on disability issues, deceiving cus tomers with products and services, and using insider information to gain personal advantage. We did find significant differences in responses to six narratives focused on ignoring wrongdoing in the workplace, doing special favors for others to gain personal advantage, and covering up flaws in merchandise or operations. Our results, and the survey instrument itself, provide useful tools for the business com munication classroom.

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Ethical Preferences among Business Leaders: Implications for Business Schools

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Fernandez

2000

Business Communication Quarterly

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“…We wanted to know whether we were teaching the correct business communication topics, and how well we were teaching from the vantage point of business people who knew our business communication offerings. The approach of using surveys to evaluate business communication curricula is not new (Brown & Mausehund, 1997), but employing a committed, prominent group of alumni probably is new. The survey sought opinions on the importance of specific communication media and skills on the job, and how well we taught that information.…”

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“…The approach of using surveys to evaluate business communication curricula is not new (Brown & Mausehund, 1997), but employing a committed, prominent group of alumni probably is new.…”

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Strengthen Your Business Communication Program with an Alumni Advisory Board

Penrose

2002

Business Communication Quarterly

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Faculty, departments, and colleges are being pressured by state legislatures, boards of trustees, and re-accreditation organizations to assess themselves and their product aggressively. Assessment may deal with demographics, such as number of students per class; perceived quality, such as the nurnber of publications by faculty; or by outcomes, such as who hires the graduates and how well the graduates perform. External advisors are helpful in conducting such evaluations. One such group is an alumni advisory board, which can be established and operate with minimal effort and cost, yet can yield many benefits. The Alumni Board of the Information and Decision Systems Department at San Diego State includes recent graduates nominated by faculty, is targeted at about 75 members, and is queried several times a year on issues related to curriculum, new topics of interest to the classroom, and job trends.

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“…In addition, this exercise gives students creative freedom to develop a useful product as part of the educational process, one that could serve as a model for organizational implementation. The various project components also serve to strengthen skills in library research, interpersonal communication, technology, presentational style, and writing ability-all components of effective ethics training (Brown & Mausehund, 1997).…”

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A Capstone Project in Business Ethics: Building an Ethics Training Program

Giacalone

Jurkiewicz

Knouse

2003

Journal of Management Education

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This exercise for teaching business ethics is industry-specific, challenging, and requires direct student participation. Specifically, student groups are asked to develop an ethics training session for a business with an accompanying training manual. The exercise involves a comprehensive description of ethical issues in a particular industry, possible causes of unethical behaviors, sources for information on ethical issues, and linkages to corporate codes of ethics. A discussion of the exercise's potential benefits, challenges, and impact on instructors is provided.

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Integrating Managerial Ethics into the Business Communication Curriculum

Abstract: This article addresses the advantages of using a business structure in the classroom, the purpose of discussing ethics in the classroom, a design of a classroom business, the methodology needed to implement the activity, an assessment of outcomes, and the results of the exercise.

Cited by 7 publications

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Ethical Preferences among Business Leaders: Implications for Business Schools

Ethical Preferences among Business Leaders: Implications for Business Schools

Strengthen Your Business Communication Program with an Alumni Advisory Board

A Capstone Project in Business Ethics: Building an Ethics Training Program

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