Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum, Volume II

CHAPTER 2

Building Ethics as a Foundational Principle Across an Integrated Undergraduate Curriculum

Steven A. Edelson and Karen L. Stock

Walsh University

Introduction

In this book, you will read about teaching ethics in individual courses such as human resource management (Chapter 6), operations management (Chapter 9), and marketing communications (Chapter 10). Teaching ethics across the entire management curriculum in a variety of stand-alone courses is a challenge that we, as educators, have chosen to embrace. In this chapter we leave aside the examination of ethics in individual courses or subject matter, and examine how ethics can be used as a foundational principle across an integrated undergraduate business curriculum. What distinguishes ...