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Contemporary Application of Traditional Wisdom: Using the Torah, Bible, and Qur’an in Ethics Education

Contemporary Application of Traditional Wisdom: Using the Torah, Bible, and Qur’an in Ethics Education

Susan S. Case, J. Goosby Smith
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 26
ISBN13: 9781613505106|ISBN10: 1613505108|EISBN13: 9781613505113
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-510-6.ch003
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Case, Susan S., and J. Goosby Smith. "Contemporary Application of Traditional Wisdom: Using the Torah, Bible, and Qur’an in Ethics Education." Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education, edited by Charles Wankel and Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 39-64. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-510-6.ch003

APA

Case, S. S. & Smith, J. G. (2012). Contemporary Application of Traditional Wisdom: Using the Torah, Bible, and Qur’an in Ethics Education. In C. Wankel & A. Stachowicz-Stanusch (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education (pp. 39-64). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-510-6.ch003

Chicago

Case, Susan S., and J. Goosby Smith. "Contemporary Application of Traditional Wisdom: Using the Torah, Bible, and Qur’an in Ethics Education." In Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education, edited by Charles Wankel and Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch, 39-64. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-510-6.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter explores how accumulated wisdom from the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Torah, Talmud, Bible, and Qur’an, provide many common codes for ethical behavior in business. Religiously derived ethics are relevant to management education because they form a source of our earliest ethical education, even for individuals unaffiliated with organized religion. When religious tension is increasing, such commonality can guide development of integrity within diverse groups of management students to confront and ethically resolve many moral challenges in the workplace. After examining similarities in these religions’ conceptualization of marketplace integrity, the chapter compares religiously derived ethical behavior along the following dimensions: workplace ethics of employers and employees; mutual responsibility and dignity of work; environmental ethics and stewardship; ethics of buying selling, and usury; and social justice and social responsibility. The chapter concludes with implications, presenting ways management educators can provide contemporary applications of this traditional wisdom.

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