Corporate scandals spotlight need for ethics training; business schools foster bottom-line mentality that sidelines issues of right and wrong, some say - Nation

National Catholic Reporter, August 2, 2002 by Patrick O'Neill

Recent studies of academic integrity have shown an increase in cheating among college students, Kiss said, and "business majors are among the ones who cheat at the highest rates," she said. "There is a bottom-line mentality that is fostered in a lot of business education."

Still, Kiss said, "There is a hunger for serious discussion of ethics among students." For Kiss, there is different bottom-line: "You ignore ethics at your own peril," she said.

Related Web sites

Center For Ethical Business Cultures
www.cebcglobal.org

The Kenan Institute for Ethics
kenan.ethics.duke.edu

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
www.scu.edu/SCU/Centers/Ethics

Society for Business Ethics
www.societyforbusinessethics.org

Patrick O'Neill is a freelance writer living in Raleigh, N.C.