Principled moral reasoning: Is it a viable approach to promote ethical integrity?
✍ Scribed by James Weber; Sharon Green
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 844 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-4544
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✦ Synopsis
In response to recent recommendations for the teaching of principled moral reasoning in business school curricula, this paper assesses the viability of such an approach. The results indicate that, while business students' level of moral reasoning in this sample are like most 18-to 21-year-olds, they may be incapable of grasping the concepts embodied in principled moral reasoning. Implications of these findings are discussed.
Accounts of unethical managerial behavior appearing in popular and business periodicals have prompted many people to call for improvements in the ethical integrity of our business leaders, as well as sparked interest for improvements in business education. In particular, the teaching of principled moral reasoning in our collegiate business schools has been strongly recommended (Baxter and Rarick, 1987;Penn and Collier, 1985). Many scholars believe that, by teaching principled moral reasoning, occurrences of unethical behavior by future managers will be diminished. The curriculum, according to Marcia Mentkowski (1988), has a decided, added value in