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If you could teach Business Ethics to a room full of WOFers

Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **5/17/18 3:42 am**

If you could teach Business Ethics to a class full of WOFers and other Charismatics, what would you teach?
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Re: If you could teach Business Ethics to a room full of WOFers

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 15564 **5/17/18 8:49 am**

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Re: If you could teach Business Ethics to a room full of WOFers

Golf Cart Mafia Capo Famiglia Posts: 4682 **5/17/18 12:24 pm**

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Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **5/18/18 8:01 am**

I am on the job market, and what I mentioned is a potential real-life scenario I could potentially face down the line. I did not write it as an insult to WOFers, but if that were my audience and I were teaching a business ethics class, it would be interesting to get some input on specifics of the topic as it applies to WOF.

I did give John Wesley as an example of personal financial ethics in a 'secular' business ethics class. When Wesley started earning a decent living as a lecturer, he bought some art for his apartment. But then when a maid delivered something to him in the cold and she was not wearing proper clothing to protect her from the cold, he did not have money to give her to buy a jacket. He felt like he'd robbed her from buying the art. He also lived on about 20 pounds most ofl his life and gave the rest away, even when he was making a huge sum of money. It is a very different view of handling personal wealth from the way the WOFers view things, but also from the way many of us would view these things.

I have never actually taken a specific ethics class, but it was a good experience. I taught a bit about virtue ethics from ancient Greek, Kantian ethics, utilitarian ethics. A lot of text books do not pay much attention to faith as a source of ethics, but I tried to incorporate that and present Jesus' teaching in a positive light, of course.

I was thinking of incorporating a section on ideas related to 'just price', which has partly replaced by Adam Smith type thinking on markets. But I think it would be good for helping business students think through ethical and social justice issues.

For a Christian group, especially, I would like to include something about the parable of the laborers in the vineyard in opposition to the type of reasoning found in equity theory. If you agree to a fair wage, it is not unjust if someone else gets paid more for the same job.

If I do end up at a Christian school that has a number of WOFers (a possibility I may be looking at) and I end up teaching business ethics again, I would like students to think through the issue of to what extent God wants His children to enjoy material possessions. I think that would be good for Pentecostals and just conservative evangelicals in gernal. But some comments on specifics of WOFers would be good to discuss as well.

I also dealt with environmental issues, and the tension between economic development providing for people's needs and destruction of natural resources.
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