Corporate Universities: The New Keepers of the Ethical Flame?

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Corporate UniversitiesThe New Keepers of
theEthical Flame? Philip McGee Clemson
University
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Behavior VS. Performance
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Three Influencers of Behavior

• Goals

• Needs

• Values

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Ethics
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Type into any Internet search engine the keyword
unethical behavior to find the following

• Unethical Behavior of Pharmacists

• Real Estate

• Medical Schools

• Sports Agents Preying on Student-Athletes

• Accounting and Banking

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For unethical companies

• Employees are turning their backs on employers
  who lack a sense of moral responsibility.

• It is estimated they lose almost 3 trillion
  dollars a year in the U.S. alone.

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For ethical companies

• With good reputations tend to enhance their
  brand image.

• Productivity and the quality of their products
  and services improve.

• Companies with environmental management systems
  substantially reduce their operating costs.

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As teachers and trainers I believe that we
have, and have had, a tremendous amount of
influence upon the ethical behavior displayed in
our society. We are at the same time, both part
of the problem, and part of the solution.
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Business Relationships
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How Work Was Viewed In Ancient Times (400 B.C.
400 A.D.)
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Both the Greeks and Romans used slaves in an
attempt to avoid work.
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Plato
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Saint Augustine
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Education in Ancient Times
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How Was Work Viewed During the Middle Ages? (400
1400)
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The Search for Truth During the Middle Ages
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Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Roger Bacon (1214 -1294)
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Higher Education during the Middle Ages
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How Work Was Viewed During the Renaissance? (1400
1700)
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Martin Luther (1483 1546)
John Calvin (1509-1564)
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The Search for Truth During the Renaissance
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Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506) Sir Thomas
More (1478-1535) Galileo Galilei (1564
-1642) René Descartes (1596 -1650) Sir Francis
Bacon (1561-1626) Hobbes, Thomas
(1588-1679) Robert Boyle (1627 -1691) Sir Isaac
Newton (1643-1727) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
(1646-1716) John Locke (1692-1704)
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Higher Education During the Renaissance
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In American Harvard College is founded in 1636
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How Work Was Viewed During the Age of Reason
(1700-1800)
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1780)

• Work as if you were to live a hundred years,
  pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
• Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man
  healthy, wealthy, and wise.
• Well done is better than well said.
• Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.
• He that hath a Trade hath an Estate

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The Search for Truth During the Age of Reason
(1700-1800)
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Major philosophers of this period were Immanuel
Kant (1724-1804) David Hume (1711-76)
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) Adam
Smith (1723-1790)
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Higher Education During the Age of Reason
(1700-1800)
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American universities continue to be
established.   Church Related Yale (1701)
Congregationalist Princeton (1746)
Presbyterian Columbia (1754) Episcopal Rutgers
(1766) Presbyterian Brown (1764)
Baptist Dartmouth (1769) Congregationalist   State
UniversitiesUniversity of North Carolina
(1789)
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How Work Was Viewed During the Industrial
Revolution (1800-1900)
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The secularized work ethic rejected the concept
of a calling and replaced it with the concept of
public usefulness.
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The Search for Truth During the Industrial
Revolution (1800-1900)
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) John Stuart Mill
(1806-73) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
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Higher Education During the Industrial Revolution
(1800-1900)
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State Universities University of Georgia
(1801) University of South Carolina (1803)   Land
Grant Universities As our nation grew, so did
our need for people trained in agriculture and
engineering. To meet this need The Morrill Land
Grant Act of 1862 was passed and provided an open
door for the common man to earn a university
degree. Because these were state school that
focused on what worked their orientation and
curriculums were pragmatic in nature.
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How Work Was Viewed in the 20th Century
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During the twentieth century work in America
shifted from manufacturing and agriculture to
knowledge and information generating and
manipulation. While the twentieth century stated
out in the industrial age it closed out in the
information age.
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The Search for Truth in the 20th Century
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William James (1842-1910) John Dewey
(1859-1952) George Santayana (1863-1952) Martin
Heidegger (1889-1976) Jean Paul Sartre (1905-80)
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Higher Education During the 20th Century
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Higher education, driven by the information age,
has gown exponentially during the twentieth
century. Sleepy tree lined campuses have been
turned into educational super-markets. Most every
community has at a minimum a community college
that offers both day and evening classes. If you
cant attend a class in person, you can now go
online with any number of private, public, or for
profit colleges and universities who are more
than eager to fulfill your educational and
training needs. In short, education has become
big business with at times, big business ethics.
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What Will it Be Like to Work in the 21st Century?
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"Good" jobs--those offering health insurance and
a pension, along with a prospect for
advancement--are increasingly relics of the past.
Increase in the use of temporary
employees. Highly flexible organizational
forms--often called networked organizations or
virtual corporationswill become increasingly
common in the future.
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Higher Education in the 21st Century
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• Residential institutions of higher education at
  the undergraduate level.
• Continued growth of community and technical
  colleges.
• Introduction of corporate universities.
• Increased use of technology.

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A Little History
Mid-Evil Universities Founded by the
Church Scripture Truth
Universities After the Enlightenment Founded by
the State Experimental Method Truth
Corporate Universities Founded by
Corporations Pragmatism Truth
Jarvis, P. (2001). Universities and Corporate
Universities. Sterling, VA Stylus Publishing
Inc.
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Corporate Values in the 21st Century
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In a business world still reeling from corporate
scandals, HR leaders past and present from
some of the nations largest employers consider
HRs new role in steering a companys legal and
ethical activities from the top down. Ricard
F. Stolz
Stolz, R.F. (2003, January). What HR Will Stand
For. Human Resource Executive. 20-28.
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Major Philosophical Approaches

• Theoretical Normative
• Teleological Theories
• Deontological Theories
• Environmental Ethics

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Four Basic Areas of Corporate Social
Responsibility
1. Human Resources Development and Protection of
People.
2. Community, Cultural and Societal Involvement
and Philanthropy.
3. Environmental Protection, Waste Reduction and
Sustainability.
4. Product, Consumer, and Service Contributions
and Protections.
Adapted from Hatcher, Tim. (2002). Ethics and
HRD. Cambridge, MA Perseus Publishing.
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Lets Do an Exercise
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Strategic Plan
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Lets Share
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