Technological Ethics

In a recent AACBE’s annual meeting, the AACBE accredited member institutes discussed that today’s business leaders need to find their moral compasses and realize that new technology brings accompanying ethical challenges.

It was discussed that the higher education and technology need to be blended together to achieve maximum results for AACBE accredited member institutes. But at the same time we should be aware that the technology can also create as many problems as it solves and that many of the technological advances of recent years are fraught with enormous ethical and social implications.

During the meeting AACBE suggested that we need a value system, a moral compass, self-reliance, patience, passion for learning, and judgment beyond the technology component. Those are things that don’t normally come with a technology degree and over the past few years they haven’t necessarily been a part of a business degree, either. AACBE accredited member institutes need to rethink some of their fundamentals in the both areas.

If AACBE accredited member schools and businesses focus on values, morality and ethics, AACBE concluded, they will be able to re-establish the trust that is absolutely necessary for the kind of business world that we all want to see.