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Faculty members at Canadian business schools were surveyed regarding their ethical perceptions of behaviours related to undergraduate instruction. The only behaviour considered unequivocally unethical was engaging in a sexual relationship with a current student. Results also indicated that, for approximately half of the items, Canadians perceived the same behaviours to be less ethical than their American counterparts. With the proliferation of corporate scandals in recent years, there seems to be an increased interest in ethical behaviours within a business context (Viswesvaran, Deshpande, & Joseph, 2000). This is perhaps a specific example of the general belief that today’s society lacks the moral and ethical standards of the past and possesses an increased tolerance for ethical breaches (Daniel, Elliott-Howard, & DuFrene, 1997). Much of the recent attention on ethics in an organizational context has focused on the teaching of business ethics in institutions of higher education to ensure that tomorrow’s business leaders do not repeat the mistakes of the past. Considerably less attention, however, has been paid to the ethics of business school faculty, who teach and presumably model these ethical standards. The purpose of the current research is t