Article
Incorporating Sport into the Ethics Segment of the Course
Journal of Business Law & Ethics Pedagogy
(2018)
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate a way to teach ethics by incorporating sport into the ethics segment of the business law, introduction to business or other law-related course. Utilizing sport as one way to engage students when teaching law especially at the undergraduate level. At the conclusion of my lecture, I emphasize how ethics directly applies to them as students by showing them excerpts from the student code of conduct.More specifically, my learning objectives in this lesson are as follows: 1) To introduce the role and importance of ethics and codes of ethics within an organization; 2) To offer that ethics can be utilized via a contract-based approach to allow an employer to terminate the employment relationship if necessary or appropriate; 3) To provide examples of real-world contract clauses which demonstrate how ethics can memorialized in the employment contract; 4) To increase an awareness and understanding from an historical perspective of the failure of ethics in business; and 5) To identify specific examples from the student bulletin and student code of conduct that demonstrate ethics permeates the university-student relationship.
Keywords
- Teaching,
- pedagogy,
- business law,
- ethics,
- Enron,
- whistleblowers,
- code of ethics,
- sport,
- sportsmanship,
- coaching contracts,
- Jim Harbaugh,
- morals clause,
- loyalty clause,
- termination clause,
- contract-based approach,
- social media,
- fraud,
- tanking,
- academic dishonesty,
- student code of conduct.
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring March 3, 2018
Citation Information
Adam Epstein. "Incorporating Sport into the Ethics Segment of the Course" Journal of Business Law & Ethics Pedagogy Vol. 1 Iss. 1 (2018) p. 35 - 44 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/adam_epstein/52/