Abstract
In the current economic crisis, companies increasingly demand more honest, technically qualified professionals, people to be trusted in their decision making and the implementation of their decisions, having always efficiency and efficacy in mind. That trust in the future professionals, who are educated in college, requires the setting up of methodologies and approaches to the problems generated in the real environment which these students will be dealing with in the years to come.
That complexity results in a wide range of cases and behaviors, originated in the professional field, which undermine the ethical conduct of the college student and the “social and human development” mentioned in the 1999 in the Bologna Declaration. But how can this “knowledge” be articulated and integrated in every single student in order to promote this “social and human development”? What tools does the instructor have in order to improve this ethical behavior?
The tight relation between university and society that the Declaration of Bologna promotes, challenges the researchers, instructors and future professional as they must offer realistic and efficient solutions for the previous situations which are sadly present and very common in our professional environment.
Not worrying about the consequences of a non-ethical conduct in an enterprise would mean to agree with all the sectors of society which criticize universities for providing an education that ignores the social reality, as it has been introduced, without knowing exactly why, in a circle of secrecy and endogamy that moves it away from everyday reality.
This research article analyzes the importance given by the professor of the Universidad de Extremadura to the incorporation of ethical commitment in teaching, as well as the tools that teachers have for that purpose. With this purpose we turned to a group of 170 professors from the three departments which teach subjects related to economics, business and finance: Financial Economics and Accounting, Business Administration and Economics and Sociology.
Keywords: Competence Evaluation, Ethical commitment, Teaching innovation, Ethical dilemmas, Ethical behavior.
