Remember that COE that cut his salary to pay his employees 70k a year? ---

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46. You are painting with a very broad brush...

I am a professor in a B-school so I admit to having some bias but I also have first-hand experience. I am a management professor and specialize in organizational behavior. Organizational behavior is the study of behavior in organizations, at the individual, team, and organizational levels of analysis. My field, and closely related fields such as Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Industrial Sociology, have done much to make B-School education more humane towards employees. We have collectively advocated for more ethical treatment of employees, taking into account their rights and aspects of distributive and procedural justice. We have pushed for greater practice of workplace democracy and employee involvement in decision-making. We have pushed for more meaningful work, more job security, and higher pay for employees. We have advocated for corporate social responsibility that extends to all stakeholders instead of just shareholders. As a discipline we believe that businesses have a responsibility to provide workplaces safe from harassment and discrimination based on protected classes. These are just some of the areas that our work addresses.

Now, speaking for other disciplines within the B-school, don't you think business should provide education to students who want to be accountants, or finance professionals, or marketing professionals, or managers and leaders? Or do you think the work of these people is so intuitive that you can hire anyone off the street to do it? I can't speak for all the B-schools out there, or for all the businesses, but speaking from what I know, I think we are doing a pretty good job teaching students the things they will need as business people, including business ethics and positive, humane treatment of employees.