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Educating For Ethical Survival

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Research in Ethical Issues in OrganiZations

Series Editors: Michael Schwartz and Howard Harris

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Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations Volume 24

Educating For Ethical Survival

Edited by

Michael Schwartz

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Howard Harris

University of South Australia, Australia

Charmayne Highfield

Chartered Accountant, Singapore

Hugh Breakey

Griffith University, Australia

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Contents

About the Contributors

Dr Rohini Balapumi holds a PhD in Information Systems and is an Instructor at the School of Management, Curtin University. With background in Computer Science and Management, she teaches various undergraduate units in Information Systems and Management studies. She also supervises postgraduate dissertation students in research areas relating to enterprise resource planning, technologies in supply chain management, and social media and online learning. Her research interests include reflective practices in higher education, technologies in education, and sustainability in education. As an endorsement of her contributions in teaching and learning practices in higher education, she has been awarded with Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).

Dr Hugh Breakey is a Senior Research Fellow in Moral Philosophy at Griffith University’s Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law. He has extensive experience in the application of ethical, legal, and political philosophy to challenging practical fields, including such diverse areas as peacekeeping, safety industries, institutional governance, integrity systems and corruption, climate change, sustainable tourism, resource and common property, professional ethics, and international law. As well as his academic contributions, with more than 50 research publications, his work has practical significance. He has consulted for several Australian government agencies, including the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, and the Professional Standards Councils. Since 2013, he has served as the President of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics.

Debra R. Comer is the Mel Weitz Distinguished Professor in Business in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship in Hofstra University’s Zarb School of Business. She received her PhD in Organisational Behaviour from Yale University. Her research interests include neurodiversity in the workplace, character in management education, and ethical behaviour in organisations. She is the Book/Film Review Editor for Research in Ethical Issues in Organisations.

Andrew Crowden is a Practical Ethicist. He is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Queensland’s School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast where he is the Chairperson of the Human Research Ethics Committee and Chairperson of the Animal Ethics Committee. He is also Deputy Chair of the AIATSIS Research Ethics Committee. He has published articles in national and international journals.

Dr Matthew Gildersleeve teaches and conducts research at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He has published articles in the Journal of Analytical Psychology, European Psychiatry, META: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, the Humanistic Psychologist, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, Quadrant: The Journal of the CG Jung Foundation, and Philosophy Now.

Bligh Grant is an Associate Professor of Politics, Policy and Applied Ethics at the Centre for Local Government, University of Technology Sydney. Australia. His is the Director of the Master of Local Government Programme, is an Executive Editor of the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, and a Public Officer of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics.

Dr Howard Harris taught Ethics in the Business School at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. His first degree is in chemical engineering and he worked in the Pacific Islands for 10 years before returning to Australia where he later completed his PhD. He is a former President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics and General Secretary of the International Society for Business, Economics and Ethics.

Dr Charmayne Highfield is a Chartered Accountant, whose professional career has traversed public practice, commerce, healthcare, and education. She first joined academia in an adjunct capacity in 2002, subsequently undertaking various roles in curriculum and assessment development in Australia and Singapore. In addition to promoting excellence in accounting education, her current research interests include ethics education, human capital, organisation value creation, and the future economy. She is currently the Editor of Australian Ethics, the bi-annual newsletter of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, as well as the Association’s Treasurer.

John Humphreys (DBA, Nova Southeastern University) is a Professor of Management and Provost and the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He has produced over 100 intellectual contributions focussed on leadership, leader identity, management history, strategy, and ethics. His scholarship has appeared in numerous venues including the Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, MIT Sloan Management Review, Organization, Management Decision, Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, Leadership, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, and the Journal of Management History.

Dr Umera Imtinan holds a PhD in Information Systems. Umera’s primary area of research is mobile and blended learning and learning technologies. However, she is keen to explore the application of ethics, ethical theories, and reflective practices in the field of information technology particularly in the areas of cyber security, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and data science. As a researcher, she is also studying the role of women in STEM (focussing on computer science). She is endeavouring to become an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Kendra Ingram (EdD, Texas A&M University – Commerce) is an Assistant Professor of Management and Marketing at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Her current research focus is social intelligence and mental health in relation to organisational cultures. Her research and publications have extended into areas of leadership, online learning, management history, as well as entrepreneurial marketing and management empirical case studies. She currently serves as the President-Elect of Southwest Case Research Association and as the Vice President of Programmes for the Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Dr Theodora Issa, SFHEA, FAIM, holds a PhD in Management, is a Multi-Award winner (e.g. Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, Researcher of the year, and Highest RPI), and a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia. Currently, she is conducting her ongoing research on ethical mindsets. She has published her work in several peer-reviewed journals, books, book chapters, papers, and research reports. She supervised PhD students and is interested in volunteering, and currently an active member at the World Council of Churches (a) delegate, 2012, (b) member of Central Committee November 2013, (c) member of Education and Ecumenical Formation Commission June 2014, and (d) member of The Permanent Committee on Consensus and Collaboration June 2016.

Dr Tomayess Issa, SFHEA, holds a PhD in Information Systems, is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Management at Curtin University, Australia. She completed her doctoral research in Web development and Human Factors. Currently, she conducts research locally and globally in information systems, HCI, usability, social networking, sustainability, sustainable design, green IT, and teaching and learning. She has published her work in several peer-reviewed journals, books, book chapters, papers, and research reports. Finally, she supervised PhD, MPhil, and Master Dissertations; and received Curtin Guild Awards for her teaching and supervision. In 2017, she received the university wide overall winner Student Guild Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Excellence 2017 Award.

Lydia Maketo is a Tutor in the School of Management at Curtin University. She currently works with undergraduate students teaching various undergraduate units in Information Systems and Management studies. She is currently finalising her thesis on mobile learning at Curtin University, and completed her PhD Third Milestone on 23 April 2020. She nurtures keen research interests in integrating technology with education and teaching and learning practices in higher education. She enjoys her role as an instructor engaging with her students, thrilled to see them succeed. As an endorsement of her contributions in teaching and learning practices in higher education, she has been awarded with Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Glenn Martin has been a Teacher of Human Resources and Business and Professional Ethics. He has written extensively on management, business ethics, employment law, and training and development. He has been the editor of publications for professionals and an instructional designer for online learning in universities and commercial enterprises. He has been a high school teacher and a manager of community services organisations. He has also written around 20 books – on ethics, family history, collections of poems, and books that are reflections on experience. He lives in Sydney, although he lived in the bush on the far north coast of New South Wales for two decades. He holds a BBus (Hons) from Southern Cross University and a MEd (Online Educ) from the University of Southern Queensland.

Dr Joseph Naimo is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics for the University of Notre Dame, Australia, working in the Sunny Coastal City of Fremantle, Western Australia. His extensive research interests broadly fit within the areas of metaphysics and ethics. He increasingly serves as an advocate working on social justice issues towards improving the lives of people living with disabilities impacted by defective disability services enabled more so by defective associated governance institutions.

Milorad Novicevic (PhD, Oklahoma University) is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Mississippi. His research is focussed on examining phenomena in educational and business contexts. He has published around 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals including, Journal Business Ethics, Business Ethics: European Review, The Leadership Quarterly, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of World Business.

Dr Timothy F. O’Shannassy is a Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Business and Law at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne, Australia. He earned his PhD from Monash University. He supervises higher degree students and teaches strategic management in the MBA programmes at the RMIT. He is Managing Author of Strategic Management: The Challenge of Creating Value (Routledge Publishing). His work appears in leading journals including Journal of Business Research, Journal of Strategic Marketing, Journal of Management and Organization, and Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations. Tim served as RMIT MBA Programs Director in 2015 and 2016 and currently sits on the RMIT Academic Board.

Dr Janine Pierce is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of South Australia, where she is also a lecturer/researcher, in the areas of management, ethics, sustainability, and communication. Her PhD was in the area of community sustainability, which has been the main focus of her research projects both in Australia and developing countries. She has worked with Australian Council of International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and other organisations, and has found that particularly in the area of sustainability of people and the planet, it is difficult to separate sustainability from ethical considerations. This has led to her research publications in the areas of ethics, sustainability, and her particular interest area of Photovoice in documenting and assessing impact of foreign aid programs and community issues and stories. She has had a number of publications and reports, and also serves on the Board of Aquaculture without Frontiers.

Brandon Randolph-Seng (PhD, Texas Tech University) is an Associate Professor of Management at Texas A&M University – Commerce. His current research primarily examines the ethical and social cognitive factors in leadership, entrepreneurship, and teams. He has published in such outlets as Business & Society, The Leadership Quarterly, and Academy of Management Review and served as a Co-editor for the Handbook of Entrepreneurial Cognition. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for the journal, Management Decision.

Foster Roberts (PhD, University of Mississippi) is an Assistant Professor of Management at Auburn University at Montgomery. His primary research interests include leadership, fluid team dynamics, management history, and ethics in entrepreneurship. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Management Education, Management Decision, Business Horizons, International Journal of Product Development, and Logistics Management, among others.

Michael Schwartz is an Associate Professor of Business Ethics in the School of Economics, Finance & Marketing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is a past President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics and the Journal of International Business & Law; and a Joint Editor of Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations.

Dr Alan Tapper taught Philosophy in Perth, Western Australia, for about 20 years, mainly at Edith Cowan University, and has worked as a Public Policy Researcher at the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University, for about 10 years. His interests include social policy, philosophy in schools, general ethics, professional ethics, and eighteenth century intellectual history. He is currently the Vice President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics. His philosophical work can be accessed at https://philpeople.org/profiles/alan-tapper.

The Revd Robin Tapper has worked, inter alia, as a Legal Practitioner in Western Australia, as a Lecturer in law at the University of Western Australia (UWA), and as a Legal Officer with the Legal Profession Complaints Committee of the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Law at UWA and an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Perth.

Dr Leila Toiviainen was born and went to school in Finland. She did her nursing and midwifery training in England, and then worked as a registered nurse in England, New Zealand, and Australia. She did her philosophy degree, including a doctorate in philosophy, at the University of Tasmania, her dissertation was on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. She has taught Philosophy and Applied Ethics at the University of Tasmania for 20 years and is currently an Adjunct Researcher in Philosophy, with her main focus as a philosophy supervisor of doctoral dissertations.