Recent research shows that only one in 20 corporate recruiters includes ethics inquiries when interviewing job candidates.

In addition, recruiters report that a rising number of job applicants act unethically during the interview process, such as embellishing a résumé or reneging on a job offer.

Patrick Murphy, professor of marketing and co-director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide at the University of Notre Dame, has written a brief guide on ethics for the recruitment process to inform job seekers and recruiters. The guide covers the benefits of ethical work environments, includes sample questions which recruiters and job seekers can pose during an interview, and lists unethical behaviors to be avoided.

This guide will be widely used and valued by our organization in its recruiting efforts,said Harold Tinkler, chief ethics and compliance officer for Deloitte&Touche USA.The clear, simple and professional approach for providing guidelines to both interviewers and interviewees will help us to more fully integrate ethical considerations into the interview process.

The two-sided guide will be distributed to Notre Dame students as well as to recruiters through college and university career centers. It also is available online at and will be distributed more widely by the projects co-sponsors, the fellows program of theEthicsResourceCenterand the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics.

Founded in 1922 and based inWashington,D.C., theEthicsResourceCenteris a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of organizational ethics through research and the measurement of ethics and compliance programs in corporations.

The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics is an independent entityestablished in partnership with Business Roundtable – an association of 160 chief executive officers from leading companies. Based inCharlottesville,Va., the institute brings together leaders from business and academics to fulfill its mission to enhance the link between ethical behavior and business practice through executive education programs, practitioner-focused research, and outreach.

Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide, founded in 2001, brings business leaders to campus, holds an annual ethical dimensions in research conference, and encourages dialogue among students, faculty, alumni and business executives to promote ethical business behavior.

_ Contact: Patrick Murphy, C.R. Smith Co-Director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide, at 574-631-9092 or Murphy.72@nd.edu
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The Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame is rated third nationally by BusinessWeek magazine in its inaugural survey of undergraduate business programs. The rankings were announced Thursday (April 27) and will be available in the May 8 edition on newsstands next week.

In the article that accompanied the survey, BusinessWeek reported:At No. 3 Notre Dame, rigorous classes requiring teamwork skills and an intimate knowledge of economics, calculus and corporate strategy earned the school a high grade for teaching quality. The curriculum works ethics into most classes, requires that half of all coursework be in nonbusiness subjects, and emphasizes group projects.

According to the survey results,Students praise the schools focus on ethics and say the career services office does a great job preparing students for business.

According to BusinessWeek editors, the survey methodology included several measures, with the most important being academic quality scores and the results of a survey of more than 100,000 business majors. The survey also polled undergraduate recruiters and compared the starting salaries for graduates and how many students each school sent to top MBA programs.

This recognition is an achievement of the entire Notre Dame community,said Carolyn Woo, Martin J. Gillen Dean of Business.It is good to be recognized as a Catholic university with a leadership position in business, because the practice of business has such wide-ranging implications for our society and the world we live in. The challenge for us, and for our students and alumni, is to be worthy of this responsibility.

The University of Pennsylvanias Wharton 91ÊÓƵ finished first in the survey,followed by the University of Virginias McIntire 91ÊÓƵ of Commerce. Trailing Notre Dame in the top five were the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Emory University.

The Mendoza College of Business currently enrolls 1,569 undergraduate students in four majors: accountancy, finance, management and marketing. After completing the Universitys innovative First Year of 91ÊÓƵ program, Notre Dame business majors enter the Mendoza College in their sophomore year.

The Mendoza College of Business also offers graduate degree programs, including a master of business administration, executive master of business administration, master of science in accountancy, and master of nonprofit administration.

_ Contact: Mary Hamann, director of communications, Mendoza College of Business, 574-631-4652 or_ mhamann1@nd.edu

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