Abstract:
The paper sets out to present the cultural challenges of teaching ethics in an entry level course to two groups of Romanian undergraduate engineering students in the 2nd and 3rd
year of study at a renowned Romanian technical university. The objective is to show that the
Romanian students’ prior ethical values and norms might impede the students’ ability to adapt
to foreign business organisational ethical requirements. The paper will also explore the
necessity of teaching such a course to engineering students (future employees) in order to
familiarise them to the concept of ethics and to the cultural differences existing in terms of
ethics between Romania and Western countries.
