Content and Location of Business Ethics in the Undergraduate Business Curriculum

Business schools are viewed as the training ground for future business leaders. As part of this education, accrediting bodies such as the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) recommend ethics education both as a way to prevent business graduates from making ethical and legal mistakes, and also as a way to respond to public outcry when a major business ethics scandal is uncovered. Although AACSB talks about the importance of and recommends the inclusion of ethics education in business school curricula, AACSB does not mandate how this education is to happen. This article discusses research into common practices on teaching and assessing business ethics, and how ethics is integrated into undergraduate business curricula.