Business ethics and social responsibility education: Shifting the worldview

While the topics of business ethics and social responsibility education have received much attention in scholarly and pedagogical literature (although less in the pedagogical literature), the authors argue that the core teaching problem has not been discussed, that is, the worldview underpinning all of management education. The authors discuss this worldview, propose a more ethics-friendly worldview, and provide some considerations of its implication. Business educators walk a road where ethical signposts are unclear, new scandals lead to new laws, and society’s increased expectations change the parameters for what we teach. In this environ-ment, how we sensitize our students (i.e., how we teach our students about business ethics and so-cial responsibility) becomes central to the influ-ence we might have in shaping their thinking. As the basic pedagogical approaches we use are re