Incorporating Sport into the Business Ethics Segment of the Course

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate a way to teach ethics by incorporating sport into the ethics segment of the business law, introduction to business or other law-related course. Utilizing sport as one way to engage students when teaching law especially at the undergraduate level. At the conclusion of my lecture, I emphasize how ethics directly applies to them as students by showing them excerpts from the student code of conduct. More specifically, my learning objectives in this lesson are as follows: 1) To introduce the role and importance of ethics and codes of ethics within an organization; 2) To offer that ethics can be utilized via a contract-based approach to allow an employer to terminate the employment relationship if necessary or appropriate; 3) To provide examples of real-world contract clauses which demonstrate how ethics can memorialized in the employment contract; 4) To increase an awareness and understanding from an historical perspective of the failure of ethics in business; and 5) To identify specific examples from the student bulletin and student code of conduct that demonstrate ethics permeates the university-student relationship