The article “Is Business Ethics Education Effective? An Analysis of Gender, Personal Ethical Perspectives, and Moral Judgment” by Liz C. Wang and Lisa Calvano is the product of a study conducted on undergraduate students using previous studies and theories on ethics. The article focuses on the following key points: business ethics education, gender, moral judgment, idealism and relativism, business and personal scenarios while “extending research on the rela-tionship between gender and ethicality among business students by considering the effect of gender on moral judgment, while factoring in the impact of business ethics instruction hypothesize and test two models.” (Wang & Calvano, 2015)
The authors conducted research of two separate hypotheses …show more content…
3.) Male students with business ethics training tend to make more moral judgments on business ethical dilemmas than male students with no business ethics training. 4.) Female students with business ethics training tend to make more moral judgments on business ethical dilemmas than female students with no business ethics training.” (Wang & Calvano, 2015) As a result the overall findings regarding business ethics education and moral judgments found that students with business ethics education showed more positive results than those students that did not receive such education. The second was to analyze the relationship of the first hypothesis combined personal ethical per¬spectives. The ethical perspectives idealism and relativism are used to categorize the types of moral behaviors that was demonstrated. A person with idealism is concerned with the ethical impact of another’s welfare as a result of their actions and relativism are more concerned with the process of which their ethical decisions are made per dilemma. The …show more content…
It is stated in at least 15 of the chapters in the text we are using in the classroom BUS& 101. The studying business ethics education is crucial to the study of business in an environment in which business are in are being driven by consumers and technology. The need for transparency and socially conscience business practices. The article contained a large amount of data that was written in a style that was easy to read and the research data accessible in the form of charts and graphs. I enjoyed the overall organization of the article. The authors also raised questions I felt were important and needed further investigation. The questions that were raised such as the differences between how the different genders evaluate and process business as opposed to personal dilemmas ethically can be a valuable tool in the business environment. However, I was not impressed with the actual research that was performed. The demographics used were not large enough to be sufficient to create a research project that was the focus of this paper. Furthermore, there were no follow-up questionnaires. I feel these follow-up questionnaires would be beneficial for both the business and the education environments as the effects of the conducts found in this research impacts
The authors conducted research of two separate hypotheses …show more content…
3.) Male students with business ethics training tend to make more moral judgments on business ethical dilemmas than male students with no business ethics training. 4.) Female students with business ethics training tend to make more moral judgments on business ethical dilemmas than female students with no business ethics training.” (Wang & Calvano, 2015) As a result the overall findings regarding business ethics education and moral judgments found that students with business ethics education showed more positive results than those students that did not receive such education. The second was to analyze the relationship of the first hypothesis combined personal ethical per¬spectives. The ethical perspectives idealism and relativism are used to categorize the types of moral behaviors that was demonstrated. A person with idealism is concerned with the ethical impact of another’s welfare as a result of their actions and relativism are more concerned with the process of which their ethical decisions are made per dilemma. The …show more content…
It is stated in at least 15 of the chapters in the text we are using in the classroom BUS& 101. The studying business ethics education is crucial to the study of business in an environment in which business are in are being driven by consumers and technology. The need for transparency and socially conscience business practices. The article contained a large amount of data that was written in a style that was easy to read and the research data accessible in the form of charts and graphs. I enjoyed the overall organization of the article. The authors also raised questions I felt were important and needed further investigation. The questions that were raised such as the differences between how the different genders evaluate and process business as opposed to personal dilemmas ethically can be a valuable tool in the business environment. However, I was not impressed with the actual research that was performed. The demographics used were not large enough to be sufficient to create a research project that was the focus of this paper. Furthermore, there were no follow-up questionnaires. I feel these follow-up questionnaires would be beneficial for both the business and the education environments as the effects of the conducts found in this research impacts