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DIANE SWANSON
Professor of management

 

Diane SwansonIn an effort to prevent corporate ethics scandals like Enron and Arthur Andersen from recurring in the future, Diane Swanson, professor of management and von Waaden business administration professor, is spearheading a campaign to emphasize the importance of ethics in business education.

Swanson attributes part of the recent sweep of corporate scandals to nationwide business school curriculum inadequacies. Swanson's endeavor has earned the endorsement of more than 200 professors, ethicists and business professionals, as well as two conference boards and national and international media coverage.

Swanson is frequently invited to speak to audiences of university administrators and corporate executives on the importance of the campaign to require an ethics course of all business graduates.

A business ethics instructor and researcher, Swanson has evaluated executive pay levels to find that those executives who downplay ethics in their decision making also prefer salaries that are extraordinary multiples of what the lowest-paid employees earn.

Swanson joined K-State in 1997. She graduated with highest distinction with a Ph.D. in business administration from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh (Pa.) in 1996. She graduated with honors in the economics master's program from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1982.

Swanson has earned numerous awards for teaching and research excellence. She received the Best Article Award in 2001 from the International Association for Business and Society and the Best Ethics Educator Award from Colorado State University, University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Wyoming in 2004. The author of more than 60 publications, she regularly serves on scholarly editorial boards. Swanson is the author of "Advancing Business Ethics Education" (2008), co-edited with K-State professor Dann Fisher; and "Integrative Corporate Citizenship" (2009).

Swanson can be reached for comment at 785-532-4352 or by e-mail at swanson@k-state.edu.