CAN A BUSINESS AND SOCIETY COURSE AFFECT THE ETHICAL JUDGMENT OF FUTURE MANAGERS

This paper reports the results of a four year study to measure the effect of a Business and Society course on the ethical judgment of students. The research involves a matched pre/post survey with control design, with the Business and Society course functioning as the treatment variable. The subjects were undergraduate and graduate (M.B.A.) business students (n = 460). The answer to the question posed by the title of this paper is yes, in a more ethical direction.