Chapter 9

Recommendations for teaching human centered management

The quote from the 1985 business ethics workshop that was given in the previous chapter replicates what educators were concerned with when business ethics teaching was in its infancy. Here is another reference from that time (Harris et al. 1996, pp. 94 ff., quoting Callahan 1980):

Too often … young professionals get caught by surprise when faced with an ethical problem in their professional practice. Never having seriously thought about such a problem, they may not handle it well… . Although a conflict of interest may be lurking around the corner, it may not announce itself to the involved parties until matters have gone too far … Many of the ethical concepts are “messy.” They ...

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