Academia, Aristotle, and the Public Sphere – Stewardship Challenges to Schools of Business

A Ten-Step Model for Academic Integrity: A Positive Approach for Business Schools

“…Business schools that clearly communicate to their students the value of personal integrity and the folly of academic dishonesty begin to honor these three moral obligations. Faculty members that overlook academic cheating to avoid the work required to follow through on academic discipline are violating a broad variety of stakeholder duties -including duties owed to their schools , to their students (Granitz and Loewy, 2007), to students' future employers (Brubaker, 2003;Nonis and Swift, 2001;Sims, 1993), and to the community at large (Boyle, 2004;Caldwell and Boyle, 2007;Swift and Nonis, 1998). It is important to note that university faculty and administrators who fail to instill principles of academic integrity in their students implicitly contribute to the cheating culture.…”

“…In the last decade, business scholars have given increasing attention to the moral duties that business schools owe stakeholders in a business landscape demanding increased accountability (Bennis and O'Toole, 2005;Boyle, 2004;Caldwell and Boyle, 2007;Mintzberg and Gosling, 2002;Karri et al, 2005). Teaching principles of business ethics and helping students to apply those concepts in a highly competitive business world can be a challenging balancing act (Moberg, 2006) fraught with moral dilemmas (Badaracco, 1997).…”