How does teaching ethics in a business class work?
Many business schools are trying to hit ethics hard now. A lot of it comes as a result from high profile stories like the Enron fiasco. There are many textbooks about business ethics today, but often they lack any foundation upon which to decide what is right or wrong. In our ethics courses, our basic principles for how to act ethically and morally come, ultimately, from the Bible. For example, a key Biblical principal is the golden rule ‘do to others as you would have done to you’ even if the other person is your business competitor. That does not mean you do not compete to win, but there is a right way and a wrong way to go about it. In the School of Business, we strive to keep these principles front and center in all our programs including the MBA. Students entering our bachelor of business administration program were surveyed about why they came to a Christian-based school. Most didn’t list a faith-based foundation as being important to them in choosing a business program. After gr
