I had a post here, which seemed to indicate based on the comments that people value ethics .
But Mike McLaughlin, who I interviewed here on the management consulting industry, points out some (sad and funny) stats that indicate wez hypocritical.
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funny. i just had my ethics LEAD module today and was talking with a classmate during the break about a similar thing. I believe ethics can’t really be taught (and definitely not at b-school), but I am with the poster from Columbia (in your other post) who in his/her comment talked about people having the tools to evaluate the ethical dilemmas they would face in various functions in industry.
on a related note(to your comment to Mike’s post) i think recruiters don’t give a damn about ethics, and to a large extent, neither do students. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the only time I’ve heard people talk about ethics here at school has been like “did you print your ethics case for class today”.
Of the functional areas in a company where I think ethics my be more of a concern for recruiters is in the area of sales. While we have things like Sarbanes-Oxley and various laws to help govern some of the areas in finance and accounting, there’s not as much common ground (in the way of laws or conventions) for sales. Checking on whether sales personnel have had past credit issues, run into any ethical issues with gift giving or expense accounts, told (white) lies to get into an account prospect, etc. … these are some of the kinds of things I have had to check in the past as a recruiter.