The responsibility for building up humane social relations falls not only on public servants and volunteers, but on every person who produces goods and services in the world of business. We are fortunate to have a number of our most accomplished scholars from the Leavey School of Business offering their perspectives in this issue of explore . Dennis J. Moberg of the Department of Management, who is Presidential Professor of Ethics and the Common Good, reflects on how organizational leaders can prevent some workers from being morally excluded by others. Martin Calkins, S.J., Assistant Professor of Management, discusses the virtue of justice as a quality of moral individuals rather than an attribute that directly pertains to corporate entities. Professor Karen F. A. Fox, who has considerable experience in overseas marketing programs, describes how marketing is the most morally sensitive area of business.
Consumers are wary of being manipulated and misinformed as they investigate products and services.
But justice does little good when competence is missing. S. Andrew Starbird, Director of the Food and Agribusiness Institute at Santa Clara University, writes that the major problems in feeding the world adequately are at root questions of unjust distribution of resources. Jacques Delacroix, Professor of Organizational Analysis and Management, argues that education for justice is itself problematic because the rhetoric of justice has been used to justify many of the worst social policies of this century. We hope you will enjoy this lively forum. Join us in the spring, when we turn to education for justice in Arts and Sciences, and next fall when we hear from the School of Engineering.