Teachers and their Personal Values

BBA4751 Business Ethics Unit I Question 11 Question: Teachers should not impose their personal values on students and should remain value neutral. If you were the instructor for an ethics course outline three distinct strategies you would practice in order to ensure you remain neutral. Answer: Whether teaching an ethics course or any course for that matter, there are three distinct strategies you can practice in order to remain neutral. These strategies are “ethical judgment, ethical deliberation, ethical decision making. (Hartman & DesJardins, 2008) The basis of this is the rational decision making which is “a process that involved careful thought and deliberation, can and will result in behavior that is both more reasonable and more ethical. Ethical judgment, ethical deliberation, and ethical reasoning are distinct ideas important to business ethics. Ethical judgment refers to the support of ethical business practice and to not tolerate the unethical one. Ethical deliberation refers to a value, belief, or attitude about ethical and moral issues in general. Ethical decision making is the process for which one should think ethically to make the appropriate decisions. If as a teacher you practice these three strategies you should not go wrong in a teaching method that practices good ethics: support ethics, value ethics, decide with ethical standards I cannot claim to know what teachers believe, however our text book (Hartman & DesJardins, 2008) says that only a handful of teachers believe their job is to tell the students the correct answers and state publicly how a student should think and live their lives. This will only lead to a student behaving in the same manner as the teacher and not in a true ethical situation since they were not allowed to fully understand what the ethics process entails. Students need to think for themselves and in order for them to do that effectively they need to understand the basics of ethical behavior in order to behave ethically. If the answers are provided for them, than the students do not learn the true meaning of ethics. Hartman, L. P. , & DesJardins, J. (2008). Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility. Boston: McGraw Hill.

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