Applied Ethics for Future Managers

Teaching ethics to future managers is increasingly desirable.The ethical aspects of professions fundamentally affect people's lives.Currently, ethics is commonly considered in various fields of human activities, mainly due to the fact that the unprecedented development of new technologies posing new challenges, e.g., artificial intelligence (AI), or medical devices.Future managers should be taught business ethics as the new technologies are produced by companies and multistakeholder collaboration, a trend in current applied ethics, necessarily includes managers of companies producing these technologies.In this study, we ask the following questions: What are the shortcomings of our approach to teaching applied ethics?What should we change in the future to prepare our students well for their managerial work?In future, we shall focus much more on the corporate perspective of business ethics and continue in our practice of discussing examples of ethical problem solving that include conflicts between various ethical principles.The overall aim is to awaken and deepen future managers' ethical awareness.