The Good Place in Your Classroom: Recommendations for Teaching Management Ethics. (June 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: van Esch, Chantal; Tarr, Emily; Frye, John
• Is Part Of: Management teaching review. Volume 8:Number 2(2023)
• Page Start: 197
• Page End: 207
• Publication Date: 2023-06
• Subjects: ethics -- TV shows -- The Good Place; Management -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Executives -- Training of -- Periodicals; Organizational behavior -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 658.007
• DOI: 10.1177/23792981211041696
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2379-2981

Abstract

The sitcom The Good Place can be used by management instructors to teach ethical frameworks and concepts. This series, familiar to many undergraduate students in the US, features a Professor of Ethics and Moral Philosophy who gives mini lectures applied to what the characters are experiencing. These mini lectures can be shown to undergraduates studying ethics in a full course or as a subsection of courses such as management, organizational behavior, or leadership. This article provides information on particular clips that management instructors can use, recommendations for discussion topics with prompts provided, and a comparative pedagogical analysis of using this resource.