RT Article
T1 Business Student Ethics: Selected Predictors of Attitudes Toward Cheating
JF Teaching business ethics
VO 4
IS 2
SP 121
OP 136
A1 Coleman, Natasha
A1 Mahaffey, Tom
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2000
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1801632626
AB This research addresses the frequently reported finding that business education reduces the ethical sensitivity of students. It presents evidence that supports the view that much of the prior research has relied upon a narrow set of explanatory variables as well as dependent measures of ethical reasoning that often lacked external validity. This research proposes instead, a dependent measure based on students' attitudes toward academic dishonesty and the use of two additional independent variables, locus of control and personality type. In an empirical study,both locus of control and personality type were found to significantly influence students' attitudes to academic dishonesty. Students who studied business however, were no more tolerant of academic dishonesty than students in other programs. Nor did they have a different locus of control or personality-type. Locusof control and personality type were however,significantly correlated. Findings also support the predictive utility of using cheating to understand ethical attitudes in general.
K1 Ethical Reasoning
K1 Dependent Measure
K1 External Validity
K1 Empirical Study
K1 Explanatory Variable
DO 10.1023/A:1009855128668