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Teaching and Training Virtues: Behavioral Measurement and Pedagogical Approaches

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Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management

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This chapter explains the author’s approach to teaching and training virtue in the classrooms of universities and workplaces of today’s organizations. It includes a description of seven primary virtues, the presentation of a behavioral measure of these seven primary virtues developed for use in teaching and training, and examples of pedagogy that have been used to promote virtue in universities and organizations. Finally, the other chapters in this section on teaching and training virtue are briefly introduced.

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  1. Hankamer School of Business, Department of Management, Baylor University, P.O. Box 98006, Waco, TX, 76798, USA

    Mitchell J. Neubert

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  1. School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Alejo José G. Sison

  2. Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University , St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Gregory R. Beabout

  3. School of Economics and Business Administration, Business Department, University of Navarra, Pamploma, Spain

    Ignacio Ferrero

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Neubert, M.J. (2017). Teaching and Training Virtues: Behavioral Measurement and Pedagogical Approaches. In: Sison, A., Beabout, G., Ferrero, I. (eds) Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management. International Handbooks in Business Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6510-8_89

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