Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray

Eugene F. Soltes

Article | Journal of Management Education | August 2017

Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray

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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;

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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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