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I would like to invite you to contribute a chapter to "Teaching Ethics across the Management Curriculum: A Handbook for Faculty" Please find more information about it below or contact me if you wish to discuss further. If you know a colleague who might be interested, please pass the word. 

Thank you very much. 

Kemi Ogunyemi

Call for Book Chapters

Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum:  A Handbook for Faculty

Edited by Kemi Ogunyemi

Published by Business Expert Press as part of the PRME Collection

PRME Collection Editor: Oliver Laasch

ABSTRACT

The need to embed business ethics in the teaching of management disciplines has at times given rise to a debate as to whether ethics should be taught as a standalone cause or in an embedded manner. So far, the majority of the opinions favors a consensus that both approaches are relevant and should be used complementarily for optimal results. 

This book will go beyond the current literature by providing unique insights into the experience of seasoned academics regarding embedding business ethics into their teaching of the practice of management. Specifically, this call is soliciting chapter proposals from a multidisciplinary array of scholars that can contribute to knowledge of how to embed ethics in the following business disciplines and others similar to them: Decision-Making, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Management Information Systems (MIS), Negotiation, Operations especially Supply Chain Management and Service Management, Marketing, Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Organizational Behaviour, Human Resources Management (HRM), Management Communication, Team Building, Leadership, Business Law, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics. They would be grouped similar to the way they're usually grouped in schools - Organizational Behavior and HRM together; Finance and Economics; Operations and MIS; etc. The multidisciplinary approach of the book is expected to make its content very rich (table of contents to be derived from accepted chapter proposals).

Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum:  A Handbook for Faculty provides faculty in business schools with knowledgeable discourse about the ethical issues within their fields. The book fits into Area 1, educator guides, of the PRME Collection, as a supplementary textbook for the business student (to highlight the ethical dilemmas for all the different managerial functional roles covered in the book) and a handbook for business faculty, and promotes PRME principles 1, 2 and 3. For example, a chapter on embedding ethics in teaching operations management would be used by faculty and students as a supplement to the usual textbooks for operations management courses. 

Principle 1 states: We will develop the capabilities of students to be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large and to work for an inclusive and sustainable global economy. Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum:  A Handbook for Faculty enables faculty to ensure that their students grasp the moral dimension of running a business whether it be at the moment of drawing up sustainable business plans, of raising finance, of appraising employees, of executing operation strategies, of buying software, or of implementing a customer loyalty plan.

Principle 2 states: We will incorporate into our academic activities and curricula the values of global social responsibility as portrayed in international initiatives such as the United Nations Global Compact. This objective of this book is precisely to facilitate this task for faculty.

Principle 3 states: We will create educational frameworks, materials, processes and environments that enable effective learning experiences for responsible leadership. Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum:  A Handbook for Faculty provides a platform for faculty to share their experiences of how to teach ethical profitability with their peers. This contributes to resolving the concerns that faculty in other disciplines may experience when they wish to incorporate ethics into their teaching but may feel that they lack the preparation for doing this or ideas of how to go about it.