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Recent management behavior such as the PINTO gasoline tank decision has received a great deal of notoriety. In fact, repugnant examples of management amorality and immorality abound. One is forced to ask a number of questions. Does such behavior reflect a lack of a proper education in moral behavior? Can education result in moral behavior? If so, what kind of education might that be? Answers to these questions might point a way out of the moral shadows giant corporations have cast over much of the world. An attempt to answer these questions, then, might be a worthwhile venture.
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Gerald D Baxter is Associate Professor of Management and Charles A. Rarick is Assistant Professor of Business. They both work at the Northwest MO State University in Maryville. The team of Baxter and Rarick have published in Sloan Management Journal, Advanced Management Journal, Journal of Business Education, Training and Development Journal, and given papers at management and behavioral conferences in regions throughout the U.S.
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Baxter, G.D., Rarick, C.A. Education for the moral development of managers: Kohlberg's stages of moral development and integrative education. J Bus Ethics 6, 243–248 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382871
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382871