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dc.contributor.authorHøivik, Heidi von Weltzien
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-07T13:06:56Z
dc.date.available2010-05-07T13:06:56Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Business Ethics, Vol. 88, Iss. 1, Aug. (2009), p. 5-9en_US
dc.identifier.issn0167-4544
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/93296
dc.description.abstractBusiness students early on should be offered a course presenting and analyzing ethical dilemmas they will face as human beings both in the business world and in society. However, such a course should use literature, plays, and novels to illustrate ethical norms and values in the intertwined relationships of human activities. Better than business case studies, literature offers portraits of characters as leaders, employees, consultants, and other professionals, as ordinary human beings with conflicting desires, drives, and ambitions. Literary texts offer excellent descriptions of the circumstances or the organizational settings in which people find themselves. I believe this is the best way to sensitize students without business experience when they are still open to such a formative learning process. At the same time, this pedagogical method linking ethics and literature may help to critically expose some of the weak or missing aspects of various management theories students encounter in their business curriculum and make them more observant and critical.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.titleDeveloping students' competence for ethical reflection while attending business schoolen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-009-0106-0


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