Ethical issues that are particularly pertinent in your field: In management we need ethical clearance if the study involves humans. Usual ways of collecting data include interviews, focus groups and use of a survey.
Suggestions on how to nurture ethical responsibility in our students: Creating an awareness of ethical responsibilities in Management is most definitely included in the undergraduate curriculum. Research ethical responsibilities are briefly outlined when students have to do their assignments at the undergraduate level. At the post graduate level a component of research ethics is included in the research sessions. The ethical application process at my university is specifically included in the research sessions.
Deliberations about processes for obtaining ethical clearance at your institution: At my university we have an ethics research committee (Ethical Standards Committee) that consists of two sub-committee’s, namely Human and Animal Ethical Standards Committee’s. There is a formal online application process using the ERAS system for any research that does not use publically available data bases. All the usual ethical considerations such as confidentiality, anonymity, risk, harm etc have to be thoroughly dealt with in the application.
