Results of Using Gaming to Teach Ethics and Social Responsibility

Abstract

Educating business leaders to respond to social change translates into two separate but related topics--Business Ethics and Social Responsibility. A specific class in either Business Ethics or Social Responsibility will introduce the student to the subject matter, but the student is really not involved in decision-making which carries real economic costs to the firm, nor which vividly reveals the broader implications of micro decision-making. Experience with the case method indicates the case method is not as effective as one might think. Students write what they think the instructor wants to read. The lecture method is of questionable effectiveness in developing in the student a social responsiveness, because the lecturer is attempting to express his value system to the student.