BUS 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter Hartman: Dialectic, Business Ethics
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The central theme of the article is to demonstrate the impact business ethics courses can have on teaching student"s character. The author, edwin m. hartman, aims to demonstrate how these courses, along with case studies can help students recognize their own values and the accompanying principles that support them. Hartman utilizes aristotle"s value ethics to argue for the importance of good character and how different workplace environments can affect one"s character. The importance of being ethical has been highlighted by recent unethical behavior in the economic recession of 2008. Hartman does a thorough analysis of the value of business ethics courses by utilizing. However, his argument rests among multiple assumptions that can be challenged using current case studies. In particular, hartman assumes that employers have the power to mold a person"s character. However, this is not true in every scenario.
