Legal tip 1125. Business Schools and Human Rights
Monday, March 17, 2014 @ 11:12 AM
Terms of our today´s blog post sound to us as diametrically oppossing: that is the only reason we are suffering this economic and financial hangovers. That is what I first-thought this morning when I read this headline by Ken Mac Phail at The Times
End of article says as follows:
"Outside business schools, the idea that business has a responsibility for human rights is beginning to take hold. Research suggests that taking greater responsibility for human rights is gaining traction at board level across a wide range of sectors and continents. Having gained at least some broad consensus on the principle, interest is now shifting towards what it might actually mean in practice.
Business schools need to engage with the human rights agenda and with the new role for business in society. If they do not, then not only will they bear some of the blame for the failure to address business complicity in human rights abuses, they will look increasingly out of touch and will have failed in their social responsibility to innovate new business forms and regulatory mechanisms that address the moral and environmental challenges defining our times.
Business schools have an opportunity to lead the thinking in this brave new world, but to achieve this they will need to change what is taught in the classroom"
The author is professor of social and ethical accounting at La Trobe Business School.
100% agree
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