There's no business like honest business.In this age of Enron and other corporate scandals A corporate scandal is a scandal involving allegations of unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. A corporate scandal sometimes involves accounting fraud of some sort. , interest in ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a has surged at business schools nationwide. But is that too late to teach tomorrow's leaders about legal and appropriate behavior? Junior Achievement thinks so. With a $1 million gift from Deloitte & Touche (who better than an auditing firm to help rebuild trust in business?), JA has developed an ethics curriculum that will be woven A woven is a cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the Bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic. Woven cloth usually frays at the edges, unless measures are taken to counter this, such as the use of pinking shears or hemming. into all of its 13 programs for grades 4-12. Activities on decision-making, business ethics business ethics, the study and evaluation of decision making by businesses according to moral concepts and judgments. Ethical questions range from practical, narrowly defined issues, such as a company's obligation to be honest with its customers, to broader social versus personal ethics, facing difficult decisions with honor and other topics are being tied into existing units on business, economics and free enterprise. Taught by volunteers that help bridge the gap between education and business, JA is beginning to pilot the curriculum this spring. By next school year, it will be available for all JA programs and could reach more than four million children. In schools without JA, teachers can visit the organization's online Business Ethics Center for content information and activities. "The only way to do business is with honesty and integrity," says Anne Rouse Anne Barrett Rouse (born 26 September 1954) is a British poet. She was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Virginia and read history at the University of London. Afterwards, she worked as a nurse and as the director of a local branch of the mental health charity Mind. Sudduth, national director of external affairs for D&T. "Given the events of the past year, we believe it's important that business ethics become an integral part of education while students are still developing their core value system." www.ja.org |
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