1985年美國哈佛大學的通識核心課程，在原有的五大類中再增加道德思考領域一類。最近日本文部省也開始討論將「道德」學科化，並納入學校的重點教育，且明確制定為「立即規劃實施要項」。這也反映了聯合國教育科學文化組織(UNESCO)在1989年所提出「倫理道德將是廿一世紀人類面臨的首要挑戰」的論點。近十餘年來，臺灣的高等教育學府驟增，國民教育水準大幅提升。然而，道德倫理觀念薄弱與人性品格低落等日益嚴重的社會現象，卻是社會大眾與企業界常常抱怨的問題，並且都冀望學校教育能承擔解決這些問題的責任。其實，根據本研究調查資料顯示，與倫理相關的課程早已成為各大專院校通識教育不可或缺的課程之一。由此看來，我們不禁懷疑是否我們的倫理教育出了問題？由於作者是大學通識教育職場倫理課程的授課教師，在教學過程中，深切體認倫理教學實為不易，故以本文探討，亦作為一種自我省思。

In 1985 Harvard University added ”Ethics” as another core course to the original five in the general education. Recently, the Ministry of Education of Japan has considered to theorize ”Ethics” into an essential educational course in a school and promised to accomplish this plan. This idea coincidentally reflects what UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) addressed the issue of ”Ethics problems will be the primary concern in the 21(superscript st) century” in 1989. Even though a number of higher educational institutes have increased and educational level of each individual in Taiwan has risen rapidly in the last decade, poor moral values within each have caused a plethora of problems in the society. Nevertheless, the society still blames education at fault. According to this study, classes on ethics have already become one of the most important courses in colleges. Then we ask ourselves, is the education on ethics the cause of problems? Since the authors are university teachers teaching the subject of ”Workplace Ethics”, they have experienced the difficulties in teaching this course. Therefore, the authors have done the research to explore the problems within the education of ethics.