Managerial Values

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 167-190
Author(s):  
Nathan Kirkpatrick ◽  
C. Clifton Eason ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Education ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Managerial Values ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
Related Skill

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the need for greater ethical, professional, and leadership-based education for undergraduate business students, and to offer helpful pathways for this professional preparation. This paper recommends the use of panel discussions centered around ethical and professional behavior, leadership, and related skill sets in business as one main route towards exposing students to these managerial values. A panel discussion with business leaders who value these traits can help students be exposed to impactful wisdom, advice, and personal experiences that can help shape their own careers, hearts, and minds. This paper addresses the importance of these values as they relate to business ethics education, the value of panel discussions in general, one specific panel discussion, the event’s creation, the post-event Meet and Greet, takeaways for students, related assessments, and other small related ways that panelists and guest speakers have informed ethics and professionalism in undergraduate training.

scholarly journals Business Ethics and Ethics Education in American Business Programs

Competitio ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
John D. Keiser
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
American Business ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Teaching Ethics ◽  
Ethical Business ◽  
Business Programs ◽  
The Difference

This essay presents an overview of what American business programs cover in their curricula regarding ethics and the reasons behind teaching ethics-related material to business students. Topics for the paperinclude; requirements for having ethics in the curricula, broad perspectives of what constitutes ethical business practices, and the difference between professional ethics and business ethics. Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification: M14, A20

General Enterprising Tendency (GET) and Recommendations to Boost Entrepreneurship Education in Sarawak

2017 ◽  
pp. 448-465
Author(s):  
Lee Ming Ha ◽  
Edith Lim Ai Ling ◽  
Balakrishnan Muniapan ◽  
Margaret Lucy Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
Calculated Risk ◽  
Group Interviews

This paper explores the General Enterprising Tendency (GET) test used to examine the enterprising tendency among business students in Sarawak. The findings from a sample of 75 final year business students indicate low scores in five key enterprising tendencies, namely: need for achievement, need for autonomy, calculated risk taking, drive and determination and creative tendency (innovativeness). To explore the reasons for these low scores, focus group interviews with the students were conducted and reasons for the low enterprising tendencies and barriers for entrepreneurial development were identified. The authors provide some recommendations to rejuvenate the interest in entrepreneurship culture among business students and eliminate entrepreneurial barriers. This paper has a practical implication for universities and business schools to re-examine their current business and entrepreneurship curriculum, as one of the purposes of a business school is to produce entrepreneurs or business leaders to contribute to economic growth and development.

Building a Culture of Integrity

2012 ◽  
pp. 427-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill M. Purdy ◽  
Joseph Lawless
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Cognitive Distortions ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Honor Codes ◽  
Top Management Support ◽  
Policies And Procedures

Although business students can learn about ethics through case studies and examples, this learning may not lead to future ethical behavior in ambiguous situations or unsupportive cultures. Business schools can incorporate an experiential component to ethics education by giving students the opportunity to work in an organization with integrity: the business school itself. As students begin to develop their professional identities, the business school can establish students’ expectations about how ethical people and organizations function. This supports students in developing professional identities that incorporate integrity. The authors recommend that business schools utilize the cognitive triangle of thoughts, feelings, and actions in developing a culture of integrity. Addressing all three of these components can help students avoid cognitive distortions that make them unable to recognize ethical dilemmas or render them unaware of the consequences of decisions and behaviors. The authors suggest using a portfolio of tactics to create a culture of integrity, including integrity codes and honor codes, policies and procedures, reporting mechanisms, consequences, symbols and ceremonies, top management support, faculty-student relationships, and open, truthful exchange. Unethical actions are more likely to occur in organizations with individualistic, egoistic climates, thus the challenge is to create a more collectivist, community orientation.

Rethinking Ethics Education in Business Schools in the Post-Financial Crisis Epoch

2012 ◽  
pp. 342-356
Author(s):  
Vlad Vaiman ◽  
Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Moral Character ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Direct Part ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
Continuous Education ◽  
Business Elite

This chapter deals with a multitude of perspectives on ethics education in business schools and provides a compelling example of Iceland, where unethical behavior of its business elite and the total disregard for commonly accepted ethical rules of conducting business led to unsustainable expansion of the financial industry and its subsequent collapse in the fall of 2008. The authors examine whether ethics education or more precisely, the lack thereof, played any role in this financial collapse, and whether business schools should contribute to molding moral characters of their students, who will ultimately become the next generation of business leaders. Here are a few important highlights of what has been found. First, a consensus seems to have been reached that business schools have an important role in developing the moral character of their students, something they haven’t practiced sufficiently according to managers. Second, business schools ought to take a more direct part in a society’s discourse on business ethics and perhaps be in the forefront of these discussions. Third, there is a clear need for not only asking business schools to contribute to molding the moral character of students but to reshaping that of practicing managers through re-training and continuous education.

TrustUS: Cultural Influences on Ethical Decision Making

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 217-230
Author(s):  
Bachman Fulmer ◽  
Sarah Fulmer ◽  
Zeynep Can Ozer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Managerial Accounting ◽  
Multicultural Environment

This case study focuses on how divergent cultural norms can impact ethical decisionmaking between a superior and subordinate in a high-pressure workplace. In order to ensure that today’s business students (and tomorrow’s business leaders) adhere to the highest standards of ethical conduct in an international and multicultural environment, it is imperative they recognize and respond appropriately to different cultural views of ethics. In the accompanying case, Jane, a Chinese national living and working in the United States, encounters multiple ethical dilemmas during her employment at TrustUS. Readers are introduced to important cultural factors that differ between Eastern and Western societies (such as Power Distance and Collectivism) and are asked to apply these concepts to gain insight into how cultural background might influence the ethical decision making of a professional in a managerial accounting context.

Designing Management Curriculum for Workplace Readiness: Developing Students’ Soft Skills

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Ritter ◽  
Erika E. Small ◽  
John W. Mortimer ◽  
Jessica L. Doll
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Backward Design ◽  
Workplace Readiness ◽  
External Stakeholder ◽  
Curriculum Redesign ◽  
Management Curriculum ◽  
Stakeholder Needs ◽  
Related Skill

The increased complexity of today’s work environment has made the need for soft skills, such as teamwork, communication, leadership, and problem solving, more salient than ever. Employers hire for these skills because it is increasingly the human resources that give organizations a competitive advantage. Therefore, academia must respond to these external stakeholder needs by reexamining curriculum in light of how degree programs, particularly in management, are preparing students for the demands of the workplace. We describe a curriculum redesign that used a backward design process to focus on developing the soft skills that employers need, focusing in particular on developing teamwork-related skill sets.

Educating Industrial–Organizational Psychologists for Science and Practice: Where Do We Go From Here?

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zinta S. Byrne ◽  
Theodore L. Hayes ◽  
S. Mort McPhail ◽  
Milton D. Hakel ◽  
José M. Cortina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Training ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
And Training

Graduate training in industrial and organizational (I–O) psychology has long prepared students with skills and knowledge that are highly valued by employers, both in practice and academe alike. Our article, based on a panel discussion, explores what aspects of graduate training are sought out by employers in multiple fields, what new I–O hires need to know, and ways we can improve professional preparation for both practice and academics. Although the current SIOP Guidelines for Education and Training are satisfactory for present market conditions, we explore areas where the Guidelines could be made more forward thinking in determining the kind of training I–O students should be receiving.

scholarly journals Transdisciplinarity in Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Moore ◽  
Melissa L. Martinson ◽  
Paula S. Nurius ◽  
Susan P. Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Faculty Experiences ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Early Career Faculty ◽  
Social Work Programs ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Related Skill

Background: Early career faculty experiences and perspectives on transdisciplinary research are important yet understudied. Methods: Assistant professors at 50 top-ranked social work programs completed an online survey assessing perspectives on the salience of transdisciplinary training in their field, obstacles to or negative impacts of transdisciplinary training, and current environments. Content analysis and descriptive statistics were used. Results: A large majority of all participants ( N = 118) believed that transdisciplinary research is important, that greater training is needed, and that they are relatively well prepared in related skill sets. They are expected to build cross-disciplinary collaborations, yet only a small minority believed that social work researchers are nationally recognized as important collaborators, or that they are prepared to navigate tensions on research teams. Conclusions: We offer a multilevel framework of structural and training supports needed to realize transdisciplinary research in social work with relevance to other disciplines.

scholarly journals Gender Differences In Responses To Hypothetical Business Ethical Dilemmas By Business Undergraduates

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margie L. McInerney ◽  
Deanna D. Mader ◽  
Fred H. Mader
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Business Undergraduates ◽  
Undergraduate Business Students

Business leaders are often failing to display ethical behavior in business decisions. This paper examines the gender differences found in undergraduate business students when faced with ethical decision making dilemmas.

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