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Can a Business and Society course affect the ethical judgment of future managers?

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This paper reports the results of a four year study to measure the effect of a Business and Society course on the ethical judgment of students. The research involves a matched pre/post survey with control design, with the Business and Society course functioning as the treatment variable. The subjects were undergraduate and graduate (M.B.A.) business students (n=460). The answer to the question posed by the title of this paper is yes, in a more ethical direction.

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James R. Glenn, Jr. is Professor of Management in the School of Business at San Francisco State University. His research focus is on the ethical dimensions of decisions made in business, professional and medical organizations. His writing on decision making, research and teaching business ethics has appeared in several periodicals and books. He is currently revisingEthics in Decision Making (John Wiley, 1985) for a second edition.

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Glenn, J.R. Can a Business and Society course affect the ethical judgment of future managers?. J Bus Ethics 11, 217–223 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00871969

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