APA-ENG Mini Grant

Manuscript Title: Exploring the Role of Self-Efficacy in Entrepreneurial Decision-Making: An Action Research Study Abstract The development of abilities for societal decision-making has received little attention from engineering educators, who have prioritized teaching technical skills. Educators must choose the best content, methodology, curricular models, and outcome evaluation techniques in order to integrate ethics into the curriculum (Shuman et al., 2004). The conversation of ethics in engineering is guided towards the Code of Ethics but they are not realistic to the workplace with contrasting demands. Entrepreneurial mindset, ethical dilemmas and ethics are common in business, psychology or social studies. An ethical dilemma is a conflict between alternatives, where choosing any of them will lead to a compromise of some ethical principle and lead to an ethical violation (Hedge, 2021). Entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility analyze common needs, economic issues, and social issues to improve society''s quality (Salaric & Jergovic, 2012). The introduction of the EM framework (Blake et al., 2020; Brunhaver et al., 2018) in an ethical-decision making dilemma suggests a pluralistic framework for structuring the chemical engineering curriculum by adapting concepts and situations studied in business and social studies degrees to an engineering setting to create an applicable, critical interdisciplinary and reflective curriculum (Radcliffe & Lesley, 2003; Payne & Joyner, 2006; Stenmark, et al., 2021).