Ethical Perceptions of Business Management Students and the Role of Gender and Educational Background (original) (raw)

Perception of Ethical Behaviour among Business Studies Students

MIC 2010: Social Responsibility, Professional …, 2010

Business practices are in terms of global economic crisis under greater scrutiny than probably ever before. Unethical business practices have been identified as key catalysts of the economic crisis. Today's business students will enter the workplace in the next years and will need ...

Perception of Business Ethics Among Students

Journal of Business

It is generally believed that ethical perception of individuals is a function of their moral development. Since this is also developed over time given people experiences, and against the backdrop that students field of study are likely to affect their business ethics posture, this study generally sought to examine gender and educational differences in perception of business ethics among university students in Ogun state, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Our sampling frame was year three and four management and non-students from a public and a private universities in the state. We obtained primary data from a total of 227 students selected through a purposeful sampling method. Questionnaire constituted the main research instruments for obtaining primary data. Our T-test result indicated that there is no significant difference in student’s perception of business ethics based on both gender and age. However, the result indicated positive and significant differen...

Business Student Perception Towards Ethics: An Exploratory Study

International Journal of Business Ethics in Developing Economies, 2017

In regard to ethics and values, nowadays corporate scenario also demands business ethics which will guide the emerging professionals to exercise this ethical domain in their professional lives. The children of present generation do not know about their culture, traditions, values, ethics etc. This is one of the reasons why the content related to ethics and values is included in the curriculum of their professional studies. The objective of the present paper is to study the perception of business students regarding ethics and values. The role of ethics and values in a student's life is very important as it strongly affects their future, career, growth, professional behaviour and helps them learn how to tackle ethical dilemmas in personal and professional life. The data for the study had been collected from the undergraduate (commerce, management, engineering, arts, and science) and postgraduate (commerce, management, engineering, arts, and science) students of the private university situated in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The collected data was analysed with the help of statistical technique such as factor analysis, T-test and regression analysis. The results revealed that awareness about ethics and values is an important factor accessed by all the respondents of the study.

Student Perception on Business Ethics

Journal of Indonesian Economy and Business, 2015

Many research conducted on the behavior of business persons and their perception on businessethics. However, rarely similar study deals with the perception of students on businessethics. Indeed, students are our future generation who are going to have substantial role inIndonesian business and economy. Therefore this study focuses on students as a proxy for futurebusiness players in this country (Trawick and Draden, 1980). We compare among groups ofstudents based on their maturity, formal business ethic education, gender and specific professionalbackgrounds. The results of analysis show that in general students have good perceptionon business ethics. Further, there is a significant different perception on business ethics amongstudents with different academic maturity, professional background. Student with businessbackground are less ethical compare to those are with non-business background. This may consistentwith previous evidence found that ethical principles need to be introduced...

5. Taht - Business Students Attitudes towards Business Ethics IJER 2013

This study investigates the ethical orientation of students of business schools in the Middle East, with special reference to the state of Kuwait. It examines whether differences in students' demographics and professional characteristics, including gender, academic level, participation in business ethics training programs, and working status, have any influence on their attitudes towards business ethics. Further, this study compares and contrasts the ethical orientations of business students in the departments of management, finance, accounting, and management information system in Kuwait and their counterparts in other countries. Results support the view that there is a significant difference between male and female respondents in terms of their attitudes towards ethics. The results indicate that higher academic levels (i.e., senior and graduate students) have more positive views towards business ethics compared to lower academic levels. Participation in business ethics training programs and working status do not have an influence on the ethical orientation of the respondents. A comparison of the overall mean of the present study with means of previous studies shows that the ethical orientations of business students in Kuwait cluster with those of the Iranian and Malaysian students. On the contrary, significant differences seem to exist between the Kuwaiti respondents and those in the USA, Australia and Israel, concluding that culture is an important factor that may explain the differences in attitudes to business ethics across countries.

Managers’ Views on Ethics Education in Business Schools: An Empirical Study

More and more scholars are expressing their apprehensions regarding the current state of management education. The increased number of corporate scandals has fueled their concerns that training students to have sound business ethics upon graduation has failed. Consequently, research is emerging that focuses on the lack of impact that business ethics teaching has had on students in recent years. Remarkably, the voice of managers has barely been heard in this area, even though they are the ones who are among those best suited to evaluate graduates’ capabilities to solve ethical dilemmas. This research npresents the managers’ view on the role of business schools in training students in business ethics, and the managers’ evaluation of business schools’ success in that area. The findings reveal that managers are quite disappointed with the lack of improvement in the ethics of graduating students. Managers nonetheless provide a range of ideas for business schools to work on, and particularly, call for closer collaboration between industry and business schools.

Business as Usual: Business Students' Conceptions of Ethics

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011

There is continuing debate about how best to teach ethics to students in business, that is, how best to help them to develop the ethical aspects of their future profession. This debate has covered whether to teach ethics, what to teach and whether it has any effect on students' views or future behaviour. For the most part, the views of the students themselves are in the minority. Yet it seems likely that the most effective pedagogical approaches would be those based on students' own ideas of the nature of ethics and the role of ethical considerations in their studies and professional lives. The research we report here investigates the nature of such ideas in a cohort of students studying business at an Australian university. We discuss the pedagogical implications of our findings and conclude that approaches that encourage students to become ethicallyaware professionals are likely to be most useful.

Business Ethics - Challenge for Management and Education

2015

In today's globalization process and economic crisis, the realisation of ethical principles is of utmost importance, since ethics may appear as the crucial factor in terms of comparative advantages. Paper will show changes in long-term period by comparing results from researches conducted in 1996, 2007 and 2015. Survey is conducted among students of Faculty of Business and Economics at University at Zagreb, as future active participants in Croatian economy. Research results could indicate changes in business behaviour ethics with respect to possible business situation under consideration among students. We must not neglect ethical principles in specific areas where it would be desirable even to exceed the existing formal standards (like, for instance, in the area of environmental protection), thinking of life conditions for future generations. On long term basis, results could influence treatment of ethical issues through the process of management education.

Attitudes of University Students toward Business Ethics: A Cross-National

With the current globalisation and complexity of today's business environment, there are increasing concerns on the role of business ethics. Using culture and religion as the determinants, this paper presents a cross-national study of attitudes toward business ethics among three countries: Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. The results of this paper have shown the attitudes toward business ethics to be significantly different among the three countries. It was also found that respondents who practised their religion tend to consider themselves more ethically minded than those who do not. Additional findings on gender have also revealed significant differences between the males and females for respondents in Singapore and Australia. Males are generally considered more ethical than females across the three countries studied.