Global Business Ethics Teaching Workshop
Sponsored by State Street Foundation
The 2009 faculty development workshop will be held in conjunction with the Fifth Global Business Ethics Symposium from Monday, May 18th through Friday, May 22nd. This year's Symposium and Workshop will be held on the Bentley campus.
For more information on the program and possible participation, please contact Tony Buono, Coordinator of Bentley's Alliance for Ethics & Social Responsibility.
BACKGROUND
As a way of influencing curriculum development in ethics, in 1988 Bentley’s Center for Business Ethics (CBE) began working with the academic chairs of the Accountancy, Law and Computer Information Systems Departments, providing them with assistance in integrating ethics into their departmental courses. The subsequent work with these departments — and its success in elevating the visibility of ethics in their curricula and stimulating faculty research in this area — prompted CBE to transform this initiative into a formal workshop. The first session was offered in May 1991, and it continues today.
Initially referred to as the Business Ethics “Gadfly” Workshop, the intent has remained the same since its inception — to encourage faculty to address ethical issues and questions of corporate responsibility in courses across the curriculum. The Gadfly reference dates back to Socrates, who described himself as a “gadfly,” a stinging insect whose purpose was to harass and “sting” the citizens of Athens out of their ignorance and intellectual complacency. By “seeding” each academic department with such gadflies, the goal was to develop a core group of faculty who would prod and influence their colleagues to incorporate informed discussions of ethical issues and corporate responsibility in their classes.
Since 1991, each May Bentley faculty members have gotten together for a five-day workshop to explore ways of integrating ethical issues into their disciplinary courses. The workshop is designed to accomplish this goal through:
• facilitated discussions among faculty from several different disciplines intended to provide them with a basic grounding in ethical theory and corporate responsibility; and
• presentations by the faculty participants on integrating ethics into their courses, with the opportunity for feedback from the workshop facilitators and other participants.
Guest speakers have included representatives from the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association, Fortune 500 Ethics Officers, and Boston-area business people who are responsible for ethics and corporate social responsibility initiatives. Over the years, corporate sponsors of the program have included the GE Foundation, Guardsmark, Liberty Mutual, Monsanto, Sears, Texas Instruments, Verizon, and, most recently, the State Street Foundation.
By focusing on pedagogical tactics and approaches to incorporating ethical and social responsibility issues, the teaching workshop has stimulated a greater comfort level across our faculty. Over time, our experience suggests that faculty become increasingly skilled at engaging students in in-depth discussions of ethical issues, going beyond planned activities (cases, exercises, videos) to drawing on student work-related experiences and issues that emerge “in the moment.” There are now more than 120 business ethics workshop "alumni” on the Bentley campus, cutting across literally every business and arts and sciences department, and the workshop has had a clear influence on how ethics is dealt with in the curriculum.
In 2004, the Business Ethics Teaching Workshop went global. Through the generous support of the State Street Foundation, visiting scholars from other colleges and universities around the world have joined Bentley faculty in this exciting endeavor.
PAST WORKSHOPS
2004 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
2005 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
2006 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
2007 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
2008 Workshop Agenda (PDF)
Our Global Business Ethics Teaching Workshop Visiting Faculty Alumni:
- Ruth Alas, Estonian Business School (Estonia, 2006)
- Henri Bailey, Prairie View A&M University (Texas, 2005)
- Anna Bajo, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Spain, 2007)
- Anne Barraquier, CERAM Sophia Antipolis School of Business
(France, 2006) - Juan Benavides Delgado, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain, 2007)
- Margaret Benefield, Andover Newton Theological School
(Massachusetts, 2005) - Zsolt Boda, Budapest University (Hungary, 2004)
- Tommy Borglund, Stockholm School of Economics
(Sweden, 2005) - Jeanne Calderon, New York University (New York, 2006)
- Victoria Caparas, University of Asia & Pacific (Philippines, 2005)
- Juan Carrillo Hermosilla (Instituto de Empressa Business School (Spain, 2007)
- Frank Christmann, University of Seattle (Seattle, 2005)
- Sandra Chrystal, University of Southern California
(California, 2005) - Lea Dippenaar, University of Pretoria (South Africa, 2004)
- Carolyn Erdener, Middle East Technical Univeristy (Northern Cyprus, 2008)
- Hamidullah Farooqi, Kabul University (Afghanistan, 2008)
- Jose Luis Fernandez Fernandez, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Spain, 2007)
- Fred Guy, University of Baltimore (Maryland, 2005)
- Eldrid Gynnild, Norwegian School of Management (Norway, 2004)
- Eric Hauer, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Austria, 2006)
- Rosemary Hartigan, University of Maryland (Maryland, 2005)
- Vishwanathan Iyer, ICFAI Business School (India, 2006)
- Ann Jennings, University of Houston-Downtown (Texas, 2007)
- Avi Kay, Jerusalem College of Technology (Israel, 2005)
- Howard Kanter, DePaul University (Chicago, 2004)
- Patricia Kelley, University of Washington (Washington, 2007)
- Senthil Kumar, ICFAI Business School (India, 2006)
- Bill Lawrence, New York Institute of Technology (New York, 2005)
- Julie Lockhart, Western Washington University
(Washington, 2004) - Garry McDaniel, Franklin University (Ohio, 2007)
- Paul Melendez, University of Arizona (Arizona, 2006)
- George Miaoulis, Lynchberg College (Virginia, 2006)
- Amalia Milberg, IAE (Argentina, 2004)
- Obaid Nejati, American University of Afghanistan (Afghanistan, 2008)
- Francy Milner, University of Colorado (Colorado, 2008)
- Miguel Olivas-Lujan, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) and Clarion University, Pennsylvania (2006)
- Bruce Paton, San Francisco State University (California, 2008)
- Gayle Porter, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Jersey, 2006)
- Anne Reino, Tartu University (Estonia, 2008)
- MaryAnn Reynolds, Western Washington University (Washington, 2005)
- Alan Richardson, York University (Canada, 2004)
- Arthur Shacklock, Griffith University (Australia, 2006)
- Isidoro Talavera, Franklin University (Ohio, 2008)
- Anne Tercinet, EM Lyon (France, 2004)
- Greg Unruh, Thunderbird University (Arizona, 2005)
- Maaja Vadi, Tartua University (Estonia, 2008)
- Lucy Vannata-D’Aprile, Victoria University (Australia, 2006)
- Virginie Vial, Euromed Marseille School of Management (France, 2007)
- Nuria Villagra Garcia, Villanueva University (Spain, 2007)
- Ruojan Zheng, Xiamen University (China, 2005)
