Business Ethics Education from the Perspective of Lecturers of School of Business Administration in Thailand

Abstract

          As Business Administration students are being prepared to be our future business leaders, their ethical mind in terms of integrity, honesty, accountability and morality would be important. Teaching and learning business ethics in the classrooms would be indispensable to facilitate, enhance and cultivate moral and ethics to them.

          A faculty survey on the teaching management of business ethics was conducted. Questionnaires were used as the tool for collecting data from all 196 full-time lecturers of a Business school in Thailand.  The main objective is to identify how to teach business ethics effectively and efficiently in order to use as a guideline in managing and designing the business ethics course for the Bachelor of Business Administration Curriculum. The findings indicate as follows: 1) ethics teachers should be the team of business faculties and guest lecturers who are successful businessmen, 2) contents are ethical theories and real business cases, 3) offer ethics course to third year students which are lecture and activity based, 4) a stand-alone 3-credits course either business core course or general education course with the normal grading system, 5) arrange ethics seminar and training with grading “S/U” twice a semester, and arrange an “Ethics Day” outside campus on some special occasion, 6) the ethics course content and coverage will be managed at the faculty and university level, and finally 7) teaching material will include textbooks, news, articles, and case studies.