Honesty and Ethics in Business: The Task of Educators Jesuit Business Education as a Model

As criticism of the current approaches of education for ethical leadership continues to mount, an alternative model for educating future business leaders is needed. One novel approach is to draw on religion, philosophy and the formation of conscience and consciousness. This paper chronicles teaching ethical leadership by introducing business students to values based leadership principles, and formation of conscience with an eye toward strengthening honesty and ethics in business. Business higher education needs to include a far more interdisciplinary and holistic framework to the ethical leadership curriculum. One long-standing model for doing this is the Jesuit approach to ethical leadership education. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]