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BUSINESS ETHICS EDUCATION
J. Schweigert, Francis
J. Schweigert, Francis
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Business ethics education has focused primarily on moral formation of individual leaders and managers in the context of ethical codes, organizational culture, and legal compliance. Important as this approach is, it fails to generate a sufficient level of business responsibility to satisfy legitimate social concerns regarding the use of natural resources, environmental sustainability, reasonable limitation of systemic risk in capital markets, and fair allocation of goods and services. This author proposes that business responsibility regarding social conditions be addressed as a matter of justice and that three essential elements be added to business ethics education: (a) distinguishing personal moral accountability to one’s conscience from ethical accountability on matters of justice in the public arena; (b) grounding businesses’ social responsibility in justice and external accountability; and (c) preparing business leaders to engage in public deliberation to determine the legitimacy, priority, and justice of social claims.
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2012
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