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  • August 2017
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  • Journal of Management Education

Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray

By: Eugene F. Soltes
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Abstract

Preparing students for the consequential ethical decisions that they will face in their careers is among the most difficult tasks of management education. I describe some of these challenges based on my book Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal and recent work in behavioral ethics. I explore why some decisions are much more easily resolved in the classroom than in practice and offer three ways to more effectively prepare students: integrating ethical decision-making with core-discipline teaching, cultivating moral humility rather than moral confidence, and creating opportunities for norm reinforcement.

Keywords

Ethics; Organizational Culture; Business Education

Citation

Soltes, Eugene F. "Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray." Special Issue on Behavioral Ethics. Journal of Management Education 41, no. 4 (August 2017): 455–468.
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Eugene F. Soltes

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