Can Management Ethics Be Taught Ethically?
A Levinasian Exploration Edward Tresize: University of Stirling Courses in business ethics are part of most Higher Education programmes in Management and Business Studies. Such courses are commonly aimed at providing students with knowledge about ethics, usually in the form of a set of ethical and meta-ethical theories, which are presented as ‘tools’ for ethical decision-making. This reveals an approach to the teaching of management and business ethics which is based upon a cognitive view of moral education – one which sees ethical knowledge as at least a necessary condition for moral action – and in which it is assumed that ethical practice in management and business follows from the application of ethical knowledge. In this paper we ask whether the teaching of management and business ethics can be done differently and, more importantly, whether it can be done in an ethical manner, one that focuses on possibilities for being ethical rather than knowing ethics. Our explorations are inf
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