Who Can Teach Workplace Ethics?
Summary [21] The article is concerned with professional ethics. Why are philosophers asked to teach ethics about professions of which they no experience? Philosophers are ‘probably the wrong people’ to teach such ethics. [22] How can philosophers encourage professionals to teach the ethics of their own discipline? Beginning at the Beginning The author was involved in a research project concerned with workplace ethics, this being a category broader than professional ethics and directed towards those without a university education. [23] Preliminary research revealed little literature on this topic. It also suggested that many teachers of vocational subjects were perfectly able to teach workplace ethics but felt that they were not competent to do so. [24] In particular ‘seven fears’ were discerned, all of which are primarily philosophical concerns. By addressing these philosophical concerns, philosophers may be able to encourage vocational teachers to tackle the ethics of their own subjec
