The teaching of ethics in Canadian Schools of Management and Administrative Studies

✍ Scribed by Jang B. Singh

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 552 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-4544
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00382016

✦ Synopsis

Business ethics has been described as a prime academic growth industry. This paper reports the findings of a survey aimed at establishing the status of ethics in the curricula of Canadian Schools of Management and Administrative Studies. It was found that twenty-three of the fortytwo responding schools offer courses in business ethics and that they offer a total of twenty-five ethics courses, twenty of which are offered as electives. Forty-two percent of the schools not offering a course in business ethics plan to offer such a course by 1989. This means that by 1989 seventy-four percent of the responding schools should have a business ethics component in their curricula.

Interest in the teaching of business ethics is growing in Canada. This paper reports the findings of a study on the status of ethics in the curriculum of Canadian business schools ~ and examines various related issues.