ABSTRACT
Rather than deal with ethical violations after the fact, pre-training in ethical scenarios can help faculty and PhD students become more aware of possible ethical complications, think through ethical dilemmas before they occur, and point out where to turn for extra support. When Jim Davis and Susan Madsen were co-chairs of the Academy of Management's (AOM's) Ethics Education Committee they developed several ethics scenarios, which they taught to multiple doctoral consortia at AOM annual meetings starting in 2008. The ethics scenario topics were developed after a pre-conference symposium held at the national AOM meetings in 2007. At that symposium a panel of journal editors described ethical violations in publications they had experienced. Audience members, consisting of doctoral students and faculty of all ranks and backgrounds, described the ethical problems they had experienced and the professional dilemmas that resulted. The cases capture the ethical issues discussed in the 2007 AOM symposium.
