Reflecting the rapid rise in popularity of recent initiatives such as the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), this Handbook exhaustively covers a variety of responsible management, learning and education topics, and provides an invaluable roadmap for this fast-developing field. Covering various perspectives on the topic, right through to contexts, methods, outcomes and beyond, this volume will be an invaluable integrative resource for practitioners and researchers alike, and is designed to serve a range of communities that deal with topics related to sustainability, responsibility and ethics in management learning and education. Part 1: Perspectives on Responsible Management Learning and Education; Part 2: Educational Purposes and Contents; Part 3: Learning Outcomes and Processes; Part 4: Academic Environment; and Part 5: Responsible Research.

Ethics, Sustainability and Management Leadership

Ethics, Sustainability and Management Leadership

Ethics, sustainability and management leadership
Michael S. Pritchard Elaine E. Englehardt

Introduction: Ethics Teaching in Higher Education

Beginning in the late 1960s in the United States, ethics in higher education expanded from being taught mainly in philosophy and religion programs to eventually finding a place in virtually every part of the academic curriculum.1 This growing interest in teaching ethics in higher education seems to have been precipitated largely by public concern about a variety of ethically troubling matters arising in the non-academic world. In addition to intense controversy about the ongoing Vietnam War, there were reports of disastrous DC-10 airline crashes resulting from flawed equipment and poor safety maintenance, highly publicized ...

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