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New Book Announcement

Toward Assessing Business Ethics Education, edited by Diane L. Swanson and Dann G. Fisher, Kansas State University

Published by Information Age Publishing as a volume in the Ethics in Practice Book Series, Robert A. Giacalone and Carole L. Jurkiewicz, Series Editors

As a sequel to Advancing Business Ethics Education, this volume is a timely response to the urgent search among business schools for ways to teach and assess ethics at a time when the public's faith in corporations and business schools has been undermined greatly by the failure of both to respond to widespread corruption and scandals in the business sector. Although no one expects business education alone to resolve these problems, the distinguished scholars represented in this book advocate that business schools should at least do their part by exposing their students to decision models that incorporate ethical dimensions on behalf of corporate stakeholders and society at large. As the book's title conveys, it is then important to assess key learning objectives to insure that business students graduate knowing ethics fundamentals and armed with the ability to recognize ethical dilemmas and possible solutions during the course of their careers.

This book will speak to all who are interested in accountability for business ethics education, especially business school deans, university administrators, faculty members, students, and prospective employers. This audience will find that the enterprise of assessing business ethics education is advanced in three ways. First, the book functions as a venue for distinguished scholars to share the innovative ways that they are assessing ethics coverage in courses and degree programs. Second, these authors identify what needs to be assessed and the means for doing so. Third, the book serves not only as a guide to assessment, but also as a platform for expanding and improving ethics coverage in business schools. Moreover, an important take

away for readers is the provision of a simple formula for delivering ethics education that minimizes assessment errors. By following this formula, business schools can provide assurances that ethics will not be assessed as being sufficient when it is woefully inadequate or even missing in the curriculum and that it cannot be distorted, diluted, or trivialized by uninformed coverage and still pass inspection. Avoiding these assessment errors is critical to delivering sound ethics education.

 For more information: 

http://www.infoagepub.com/products/Toward-Assessing-Business-Ethics-Education

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Diane L. Swanson, Ph.D.

Professor of Management

The von Waaden Business Administration Professor

Founding Chair, Business Ethics Education Initiative

101 Calvin Hall

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas 66506 USA

e-mail: swanson@ksu.edu

phone:  785-532-4352     

http://www.cba.ksu.edu/swanson

http://www.cba.ksu.edu/businessethics