Students Value Ethics Education

Newswise — According to a recent study in the Journal of Business Ethics, though much has been written about business ethics education, there is little consensus about its effectiveness. "We evaluated both students' and faculty members' perceptions of the importance of business ethics education and found there was a gap in the expectations of the two groups," said study co-author Nell Adkins, Ph.D., UAB associate professor of accounting. "While students and faculty agree that ethics education is appropriately taught, desirable and valuable, students consider business ethics education more important than do the faculty. The students indicated they would like to receive more ethics education in the classroom before entering the workforce."