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Is Empathy The Missing Link In Teaching Business Ethics? A Course-Based Educational Intervention With Undergraduate Business Students, Christopher P. Adkins Jan 2009

Is Empathy The Missing Link In Teaching Business Ethics? A Course-Based Educational Intervention With Undergraduate Business Students, Christopher P. Adkins

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Past approaches to teaching ethics have been rooted primarily within the cognitive developmental tradition, with the focus on developing moral reasoning. Recent studies in cognitive neuroscience and social psychology have challenged this emphasis, highlighting the primacy of the emotion in driving moral decision-making. This study proposed that empathy may be an appropriate construct for integrating both processes, and that an moral education intervention that focused on empathetic perspective-taking based on Martin Hoffman's work may prove effective in both advancing moral reasoning and empathy. This approach was applied using a quasi-experimental design with undergraduate business students (N = 181) within a …


Promoting The Ethical Development Of Undergraduate Business Students Through A Deliberate Psychological Education-Based Classroom Intervention, Christopher Drees Schmidt Jan 2007

Promoting The Ethical Development Of Undergraduate Business Students Through A Deliberate Psychological Education-Based Classroom Intervention, Christopher Drees Schmidt

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Daily Importance Of Creativity To Entrepreneurial Team Members: A N Empirical Investigation, Elizabeth Layne Paddock Jan 2001

Daily Importance Of Creativity To Entrepreneurial Team Members: A N Empirical Investigation, Elizabeth Layne Paddock

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Perceptions Of Stress Between Business Owners And Business Managers, Andrea L. Kimmel Jan 1999

Perceptions Of Stress Between Business Owners And Business Managers, Andrea L. Kimmel

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Issues Of Power And Centrality In United Methodist Ministers' Occupational Activities: Implications For Professional Education, Richard Bruce Osmann Jan 1996

Issues Of Power And Centrality In United Methodist Ministers' Occupational Activities: Implications For Professional Education, Richard Bruce Osmann

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The purpose of this interview based qualitative study was to explore the influence that a plurality of social contexts, represented through United Methodist congregations in the Virginia Conference, have on the formation of ministers' occupational activities.;The study used a typology developed by Larry Blazer (1987) to identify the occupational activities practiced by parish ministers. The investigation weighted clergy's professional practice using Judith Hackman's (1985) concepts of power and centrality in her study institutions of higher education's budgeting process. Congregational representatives identified occupational activities that were central and peripheral to their congregation's mission. Clergy identified the occupational activities that received more …


Involvement And Information: How Do They Affect The Price Consumers Are Prepared To Pay?, Corinne Ann Symes Jan 1990

Involvement And Information: How Do They Affect The Price Consumers Are Prepared To Pay?, Corinne Ann Symes

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Selling And The Salesman: Prediction Of Short-Term Success, Personality Changes, And Cognitive Dissonance, Allen Anderson Turnbull Jan 1971

Selling And The Salesman: Prediction Of Short-Term Success, Personality Changes, And Cognitive Dissonance, Allen Anderson Turnbull

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