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Towards business ethics teaching that enables moral development and behaviour
Rossouw, Nina. 2025. Towards business ethics teaching that enables moral development and behaviour. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch Univeristy [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132454
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132454 Towards business ethics teaching that enables moral development and behaviour Rossouw, Nina Woermann, Minka Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Philosophy. Applied Ethics. Business ethics -- Study and teaching Moral development Kohlberg's Stage-developmental Model Professional ethics -- Study and teaching. UCTD Rossouw, Nina. 2025. Towards business ethics teaching that enables moral development and behaviour. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch Univeristy [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132454 Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Business ethics, and the teaching thereof, has been a contested and deliberated topic. Whether ethics can be taught, how it should be taught, and the aims of such teaching have been some of the questions considered in literature. Furthermore, business ethics sits against the backdrop of corporate failures that happen too often (normally partially as a result of ethics failures). The necessary question to consider is how we can use the teaching of business ethics to affect behavioural change? This thesis argues for a teaching approach to business ethics that incorporates moral development, as moral development could ultimately lead to changed (moral) behaviour. Kohlberg’s theory of moral development confirms that moral development can take place during the lifespan of a person, and further confirms that education can foster this development. Considering the aims of education, and business ethics specifically, teaching (and education) is always a moral undertaking, and education inevitably influence students’ ways of thinking and being. Three teaching frameworks that enable moral development guide the approach forwarded in this thesis on how to teach business ethics. The various frameworks have never been considered as a combined pedagogical approach. This thesis argues that the relevance of the consideration of the frameworks is in their synergy, and how they work together. All of the frameworks enable a different aspect of (eventual) ethical action. The thesis contributes to the field of business ethics teaching by suggesting an appropriate pedagogical approach to teach business ethics to enable moral development and behaviour and furthermore provides guidelines in terms of a teaching framework to do so. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar. Masters 2025-06-09T08:04:14Z 2025-06-09T08:04:14Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132454 en Stellenbosch University 80 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Business ethics -- Study and teaching Moral development Kohlberg's Stage-developmental Model Professional ethics -- Study and teaching. UCTD Rossouw, Nina Towards business ethics teaching that enables moral development and behaviour |
| title | Towards business ethics teaching that enables moral development and behaviour |
| title_full | Towards business ethics teaching that enables moral development and behaviour |
| title_fullStr | Towards business ethics teaching that enables moral development and behaviour |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards business ethics teaching that enables moral development and behaviour |
| title_short | Towards business ethics teaching that enables moral development and behaviour |
| title_sort | towards business ethics teaching that enables moral development and behaviour |
| topic | Business ethics -- Study and teaching Moral development Kohlberg's Stage-developmental Model Professional ethics -- Study and teaching. UCTD |
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