Preparing millennials as digital citizens and socially and environmentally responsible business professionals in a socially irresponsible climate

TL;DR

This paper reviews how business communication education can develop millennials into responsible digital, social, and environmental citizens by emphasizing relevant curricula and teaching strategies.

Contribution

It proposes a framework for designing curricula that foster digital responsibility, sustainability, and social responsibility among millennials in business education.

Findings

Millennials are tech-savvy but lack digital responsibility.

They are passive towards environmental sustainability.

Educational strategies can enhance global citizenship skills.

Abstract

As of 2015, a millennial born in the 1990's became the largest population in the workplace and are still growing. Studies indicate that a millennial is tech savvy but lag in the exercise of digital responsibility. In addition, they are passive towards environmental sustainability and fail to grasp the importance of social responsibility. This paper provides a review of such findings relating to business communications educators in their classrooms. The literature should enable the development of a millennial as an excellent global citizen through business communications curricula that emphasizes digital citizenship, environmental sustainability and social responsibility. The impetus for this work is to provide guidance in the development of courses and teaching strategies customized to the development of each millennial as a digital, environmental and socially responsible global citizen.