期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2019
卷号：9
期号：7
页码：370-385
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i7/6129
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：This article reports the development of philosophy underpinning ethics education especially in the accounting field from the oldest systematic philosophers in western culture as a starting point to the current situation of teaching ethics and the suggestion of new direction by the installation of the concept of human governance. Compare to the oldest era, education in the era of industrial revolution emphasises on the development of technical skills and producing specialists and scientists. Postmodernism scholars find that schools in this era are not teaching humanities in ways conducive to cognitive development or respect for traditional knowledge and values. Consequently, critiques on this kind of education started emphasis in the late eighties and nineties. However, only after the Enron scandal, attention is given to develop long-term strategy to tackle the issue of unethical behaviour among accountants through stringent rules and regulation, code of ethics, ethics education and research. The need to adopt a new philosophy as a supplement in teaching ethics has arisen. This paper proposed to introduce the concept of human governance into accounting ethics education especially at university level. Additionally, this paper had also provided the overview of the concept of human governance.
