01101pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002000040245008800060260000900148300001400157362000800171520072700179650002500906773003600931180718b2004   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aLenagham, Janel  aThe interiors plant shutdown: using dialectic inquiry in a complex ethical decision  c2004  ap.207-23.  aApr  aThe experimental exercise presented here, using a dialectic process similar to the found within Strategic Assumption Surfracing and Testing (SAST), developed by Mason and Mitroff, offers graduate and undergraduate management students the opportunity to study a contemporary ethical problem in a new way. The ethical issues of a plant clsoe down presented in this exercise are very complex and involve fact, human passion and emotion, issues of aesthetics, and morality. The goal is not only to introduce the dialectic method but also to provide students with a very clear understanding of the way that their own biases serve to filter information and to bypass necessary questions and testing of assumptions. - Reproduced.  aManagement education  aJournal of Management Education