Rethinking Business Education: Creativity and Morality toward Betterment of All

Abstract

Prominent scholars such as Mitroff, Alpaslan, Senge Giacalone, and others have repeatedly expressed their aversion to the way business education is implemented, and the direction it has taken in recent decades. There is a strong desire among both academic and practicing critics to deviate from mathematizing and economizing business education and reinvent this learning stream through the infusion of trans-disciplinary approaches. These trans-disciplinary approaches are not only more realistic, but they also prepare future business performers better for upcoming moral challenges, and shape their minds toward constructive and community-advancing, rather than self-centered, problem solving. In this symposium, we will consider eight options toward more action-oriented and creative business ethics education, several of which based on the facilitators’ experiences as management educators.