Jamshedpur : XLRI- Xavier School of Management is all set to organise the 25th �JRD TATA Oration on Business Ethics� on November 26 at XLRI campus.
Father Frank Brennan, S.J., Professor of Law, Australian Catholic University will deliver the address. He would deliver the oration on the topic �The Placement of International Law in seeking Sustainable Development for India: Some Ethical Reflections�.
Fr. E Abraham, S. J. Director, XLRI commented, �XLRI has always placed on the forefront, the importance of pursuing an ethical code of conduct in the corporate world. We believe that no management education curriculum is really complete, unless and until the students are instilled with a set of abiding values – that are indispensable ingredients for any aspiring business leader in today�s world.
XLRI is the first B-school in the country to introduce a core course on �Managerial Ethics� for both its HRM and BM programmes. Each year, XLRI confers a medal on the best student in Managerial Ethics at the institute�s annual convocation.�
�We are extremely happy to have Fr. (Dr.) Frank Brennan, S.J. deliver the oration on the 25th Year of JRD TATA Oration on Business Ethics� and inspire our students with his thought-provoking words. XLRI has been organizing the �JRD Tata Oration on Business Ethics� for our students to listen to their role models and leaders and understand the need and importance of ethics in business as well as inspire them to follow these ethical codes of conduct in their professional and personal lives�, he added.
XLRI- Xavier School of Management, in association with a few select Tata Group Companies, established in 1991 the XLRI – JRD Tata Foundation in Business Ethics, to mark their long-standing commitment and contribution to business ethics in India. The foundation seeks to address itself by publicly affirming the urgent need for ethics in business and the need to bring about a conducive culture in which it can thrive.
Fr. (Dr.) Frank Brennan, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, professor of law at Australian Catholic University and Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Australian National University College of Law and the National Centre for Indigenous Studies. He is the National Director of Human Rights and Social Justice for Jesuit Social Services, and superior of the Jesuit community at Xavier House in Canberra.