This document discusses whether business ethics can be taught. It presents perspectives from several professionals. Some believe ethics can be taught through establishing a visionary culture and rigorous reviews of practices. Others argue ethics is more complex and cannot be fully learned through training, but must be cultivated over time through leading by example and rewarding ethical behavior. Overall, while business ethics can be introduced, most agree it is best demonstrated and influenced from the top down through personal conduct rather than solely taught as an academic subject.

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Can business ethics be taught?
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While ethics are very subjective, some people believe that they can be taught, others disagree. The debate continues…
In agreement…
Devarajan Duraibabu, COO, Disha Communications Pvt. Ltd: “I believe business ethics can be taught. All it requires is a visionary leader. It is
the role of a leader to teach ethical practices to his line managers by way of his action and by establishing rigorous work practices. We have
various reviews during the year. We review everything from sales, quality, profitability & even employee satisfaction. Why can’t companies initiate
‘review of ethics’?”
Ravi S Singh, founder, insiders: “Yes, business ethics can be taught. Build the right culture take care of small things, inject the right attitude and
keep a close check on this gradual process over a period of time you will not only have ethical people at the work place but good human beings too.
While business ethics can be taught, they can’t be learned. It can be sowed but can’t be cultivated in a training session, because ethics has to do
with the EQ and not the IQ. You can’t expect a person to change his ideology, belief system and behavior within few hours/days of training. Ethics
can be cultivated over a period of time.”
Ravi Sinha, VP & head-corporate HRM & communications, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd: “Despite the cynicism surrounding business ethics stating that
it starts in business schools and ends in Enron, I firmly believe that business ethics can be, and should be, taught. Each company has its own set of
ethics and hence it is imperative to share those ethics with every employee that joins the organisation.”
In opposition…
Sanjay Aggarwal, CEO, Unicel Technologies: “While business ethics can be taught to an extent, ultimately it is not a purely academic subject
where there is always a clear right and wrong answer. There are many factors that must be considered in deciding the so-called ‘ethical’ course of
action in any given situation, as real life situations are usually very complex.”
Shazia Gani, HR Manager, Biorad-biomedicon Group: “If one examines any argument on this topic, you will find, what they really try to say is
ethics cannot be taught “bottom up” but can successfully be educated “Top Down”. If influencers in the management team demonstrate, and the
rewards are mapped, with appropriate behaviour then one has motivation to emulate business ethics for better payoffs.”
Ved Prakash Mahendru, CMD, Eon Electric Ltd: “Business ethics like all other values in life are seldom taught by sermonising. It can only be
conveyed through personal real life examples of the concerned teachers and other who has established great and successful institutions based on
truth, ethics and deep commitment in the interest of its customers/associates, be it external or internal. While schools are trying to teach ethics, it is
for the students concerned to really follow them in practice.”
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