Abstract
Despite many years of bringing ethics to the forefront as crucial to doing business, we still see the need for improved ethics instruction and behavior among business professionals. Current research indicates there is a need for innovative pedagogy in business ethics. This study introduces an innovative ethics pedagogical tool in the undergraduate introductory finance classroom. The objective of this pedagogical innovation is to improve ethics education among future business professionals in the finance field by increasing students’ ethical awareness in the business-finance world. The new ethics pedagogical tool consist of introducing students to a series of practical and concise questions that guide them through the analysis of the ethics of a finance situation. Students then use this series of questions during the semester of our introductory finance course to analyze the ethics of various financial situations that occur in the news during the time of our course. I assess the effectiveness of this tool by analyzing students’ ethical perceptions before and after the ethics pedagogical tool is implemented in the introductory finance classroom.
Presenters
Valeria MartinezAssociate Professor of Finance, FInance/Dolan School of Business, Fairfield University, Connecticut, United States
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Business, Finance, Ethics, Pedagogy, Innovation
