Following a national review of universities and colleges, Lockheed Martin Corporation selected UNG and five other institutions to partner with in the Academic Ethics Exchange, which Lockheed created to share the corporation’s resources and ethical expertise with students.
Lockheed is working with the BB&T Center for Ethical Business Leadership, a unit of UNG’s Mike Cottrell College of Business.
“This is an avenue for Lockheed Martin to share their best practices around ethics and values,” said Rose Procter, director for the BB&T Center for Ethical Business Leadership.
“Lockheed Martin has great expertise on prepping our next-generation leaders, in both college and high school, on how to voice their values and to work through real-life scenarios. This is one of the reasons they are a leader in their industry.”
Other institutions selected for the partnership were California Polytechnic State University, California State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Montgomery College, and University of Maryland.
There are several programs and
opportunities emerging from the
partnership, including:
opportunities emerging from the
partnership, including:
- Ethics training for Lockheed employees brought to UNG students; this will be included within UNG’s Business Ethics Leader program
- Partnership with Lockheed Martin Ethics and Human Resources to strengthen the Ethical Culture Indicator, an assessment tool created by Dr. Bryan Dawson, assistant professor of psychological science, and Perry Tomlinson, executive-in-residence with the Mike Cottrell College of Business
- Creation of the UNG Ethics Innovation Lab
- The Leadership in Business Pilot Program, which was created to teach different aspects of leadership to students through experiential learning