PERCEIVED EFFECTIVE WAYS FOR INTEGRATION OF BUSINESS ETHICS COURSES IN BUSINESS EDUCATION CURRICULUM IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA

The study ascertained the effective ways for integration of business ethics courses
into the business education curriculum as a strategy for training students for
improved performance in business organization, in the perception of business
educators in tertiary institutions in South-East Nigeria. Descriptive survey
research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised
144 business educators in tertiary institutions in the South East, Nigeria. One
research question guided the study and one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of
significance. A nine item questionnaire was used for data collection. The
questionnaire was tested for validity and the instrument determined for internal
consistency using Cronbach alpha, which yielded a score of 0.74. The data
collected were analysed using mean score, standard deviation and Analysis of
Variance (ANOVA). The mean ratings were used to answer the research question
while standard deviation was used to determine the closeness of the respondents’
means. Analysis of Variance was used in testing the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of
significance. Findings revealed among others, providing foundational ethics
courses in business education and discussing case studies in ethics in business
education classes as effective ways of integration of business ethics courses in
business education curriculum in tertiary institutions and a strategy for training
students for improved performance in business organizations. Furthermore, the
findings revealed that years of teaching experience of the respondents did not
significantly influence their mean ratings on the effective ways of integration of
business ethics courses in the business education curriculum, as a strategy for
training students for improved performance in business organizations. It was
recommended among others, that administrators of business education programme
in tertiary institutions should apply the effective ways discovered in this study to
integrate business ethics courses in business education curriculum for training of
students and for improved performance of her graduates in business organisations.
This will enable students to be theoretically and practically equipped for the
labour market and the demands of the real world.

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