BUS 309 Business Ethics Week 11 Discussion 1

“Criminal Background Checks” Please respond to the following:

Read the article titled, “Why Aren’t Business Ethics Classes Making Businesses More Ethical?”, located here. Next, respond to the following questions. The Wall Street Journal recently announced that ethics courses are useless because ethics cannot be taught. Although few people would turn to the Wall Street Journal as a learned expert on the teaching of ethics, the issue raised by the newspaper is a serious one: Can ethics be taught? Do business ethics classes have value in the workplace? Defend your position.