IN BUSINESS STUDENTS' CULTURE

This session will explore some possible means and potential benefits of implementing structural support for raising the professionalism of business undergraduates. Professionalism, with multiple behavioral attributes in wide variation across students, is a timely and relevant issue for business schools, both for pedagogical progress and for graduates’ employability. Discussants will analyze the role of structure in stirring students’ agency with respect to perceptions of good and bad classroom behaviors. The Franke College of Business’ innovation of an extra-curricular reward-for-good program, meant to augment traditional penalty-for-bad approaches, will serve as the conversation starter and point of comparison.