6. Conclusion

Trust your heart and your feelings if there is only a little thing bothering you, you won’t do it, but if there is something really important, you will do it. Trust you and your surrounding! We truly believe that you are the greatest leader, if you just listen to your heart and you are able to disconnect from all the smog around you. Talk more with you but also listen more to others without asking questions - your love and heart will guide you.

The whole experience of this outcome the Youth Code of Business Ethics was enriching and inspiring not only for the participants and active educators / facilitators, but also for us project partners to who the youth gave most insightful views on their generation and their view on contemporary society and understanding of work, business and leadership.

The most significant cognition was that this Millennials generation truly cares about morals and good behaviour and is not willing to compromise, even when acting in business setting. They take work and career seriously and care for “common home”, for which they perceive we should all take a moral stand and be good to one another. Also, they seek fairness and honesty in everything and everyone. They carry deep faith in humanity and better – united and just future. Moreover, to the business they enter with certain expectations and demands, such as “fair work - just pay check”, work-life balance, equal opportunities, transparent and trustworthy employment / business relationships, by work impact making, etc. All this views opened new horizons and transformed our program and the outcome.

In terms of ethics education we came to result basic terminologies are not clear and synchronized. Youth knows little about ethics, in terms of theories and approaches, however they are keen on values. From the perspective of business ethics they are strong on environmental issues, yet how business itself is made and how management functions is not clear to them neither moral dilemmas rising within the business frame. Moreover, leadership in view of ethics appeared to be a murky zone, where it is not obvious what it means to do the right decisions and work for common good results. We grasps these observations are result of absence of experience and lack of knowledge on subject of ethics. Nevertheless, throughout the whole program our Millennials showed great interest in ethics and willingness to learn applied ethical leadership.