{"title":"The Art of Learning Empathy: Advancing Organizational Ethics Education With the <i>SpaceJam</i> Pedagogical Strategy.","authors":"Joé T Martineau, Audrey-Anne Cyr","doi":"10.1177/10525629261421590","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10525629261421590","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Amidst the ethical challenges facing the corporate world, there is an urgent demand for enhanced ethics education in business schools. This article introduces <i>SpaceJam</i>, an innovative pedagogical strategy designed to nurture empathy-an indispensable capacity for guiding ethical decision-making and behavior within organizational settings. Grounded in a pragmatist and humanistic approach to ethics education, SpaceJam offers a holistic strategy that targets the affective, cognitive, and motivational dimensions of empathy as well as ethical reflection. By diversifying learning spaces-encompassing the classroom, home, and community-and employing experiential and art-based methods, this strategy fosters multiple immersive learning experiences and opportunities in diverse contexts. The core of its integrative nature is manifested through the creation of an artistic portfolio, serving as a fourth learning space for students to express, comprehend, and reflect upon their learning journey through creative work. Implemented on three cohorts of students enrolled in a Bachelor of Business Administration program, the strategy was found effective in cultivating empathy and ethical reflection among future business leaders, offering a promising pathway for business schools to meet the imperative need for ethical education.</p>","PeriodicalId":93467,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management education (Newbury Park, Calif.)","volume":"50 3","pages":"331-375"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13086422/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147725040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Ohreen, Binod Sundararajan, Valerie Trifts, Scott Comber
{"title":"Vygotskian Business Ethics: The Influence of Peers on Moral Reasoning in Business Ethics Education.","authors":"David Ohreen, Binod Sundararajan, Valerie Trifts, Scott Comber","doi":"10.1177/1052562921996019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1052562921996019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Russian developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky provides important theoretical underpinnings for an alternative to business ethics pedagogy. Although Vygotsky's constructivist approach has been applied to other disciplines, such as cognitive development, moral development, and network analysis and learning, its application to business ethics education is virtually nonexistent. Vygotsky's focus on language and peer influence provides a novel approach to ethics education. Although many business ethics instructors already use group discussion in their classes, we provide evidence that will reinforce such techniques as a crucial pedagogical method. This study is an exploratory application of Vygotsky's developmental theory to business ethics education. Data were gathered in business ethics and management courses, with experimental and control groups, and analyzed using the Defining Issues Test and thematic-coded journal entries. Results indicated that discussions created a zone of proximal development improving the moral reasoning for most students giving them multiple perspectives and providing support to engage in deliberations and peer dialogue when discussing ethical frameworks, ethical scenarios, and ethical decision making.</p>","PeriodicalId":93467,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management education (Newbury Park, Calif.)","volume":"46 1","pages":"70-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1052562921996019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39809313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}