3UPDATE ON BUSINESS ETHICS

The topic of business ethics is becoming increasingly important to as well as widespread in the curriculum of business schools. However, it has often been a difficult subject to teach since it requires a knowledge of both business and ethics. Those who understand how busi-nesses function often need to acquire new skills in philo-sophy or to retrieve such concepts from a course taken in the distant past. It is the purpose of this paper to provide an overview of and some suggested approaches to the subject of ethics which may be useful to faculty who teach organization behavior. The growing importance of this topic no doubt results from a number of causes. The external demands of society upon management for ethical business prac-tices came into sharp focus with the illegal politica