Business Ethics, Business Schools, and the World of Work

• What are the key ethical challenges facing business today?
• To what extent can business schools, ethicists, the professions, and the business world work better together to address the issues of ethical conduct in business practice?
• What are the key issues in business ethics that business schools and the professions should be addressing?
• Are there new or better ways to teach business ethics?

 
Some of the corporate behaviour that led to the recent financial crisis (http://leeds.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eb1534b10bb7afc84aaedb9b9&id=e286e16d39&e=a62204a5f8), but also previous wrongdoing in the business world  (BCCI, Enron, PPI mis-selling, Bhopal Disaster; supply chain issues in the textile business), has raised the question of the role of business schools and their graduates. This conference will focus on how they can address the current challenges.

The conference will include plenary sessions and workshops

Speakers will include:

Professor Amanda Mellor, Group Secretary for Marks & Spencer plc. and visiting Professor in the IDEA CETL

Margaret Doyle, Head of Financial Services Insight at Deloitte LLP and author of the Culture of Banking

Professor Paul Dembinksi, Director, Observatoire de la Finance, Geneva, Switzerland

Peter Day, BBC Business Editor

Professor Mick Yates, visiting Professor at the business school and formerly of Dunnhumby plc.

Professor Chris Megone, Director of the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre

 
Parallel Workshop themes will include:
1.    The teaching of business ethics
2.    The relation between educators and business/world of work
3.    The ethical graduates of tomorrow
4.    Ethics and professional development
5.    The public interest
6.    Business ethics and the purpose of business
7.    Promoting Integrity within Organisations
 
This conference will be of interest to academics, professionals and people working in business.
A number of workshops are already organised but the organisers will consider offers of further workshop themes in these or related areas. Please contact the organisers as soon as possible (and by February 14th at latest) if you would like to organise a workshop within the themes above.
 
Please visit the University of Leeds online store (http://leeds.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eb1534b10bb7afc84aaedb9b9&id=46adbc8eb6&e=a62204a5f8) to register and to make your payment.  If you have any queries please contact Liz Melsom [email protected]

Supporting Organisations:

Professional Services Hub, Leeds University Business School (http://professionalserviceshub.leeds.ac.uk/)

The Chartered Insurance Institute (http://www.cii.co.uk/knowledge/policy-and-public-affairs/)

Chartered Banker (http://www.charteredbanker.com/home/)