A Blatant Disregard for Appropriate Ethical Behavior
DL Ennis
September 21, 2006
Kids have been cheating in school ever since there have been schools—we all know that. We also know that college kids and young adults such as graduate students cheat. What’s disturbing about the report, that the following excerpts were taken from, is that these young graduate students think that it is an acceptable practice.
Graduate business students in the United States and Canada are more likely to cheat on their work than their counterparts in other academic fields, the author of a research paper said on Wednesday.”
The study of 5,300 graduate students in the United States and Canada found that 56 percent of graduate business students admitted to cheating in the past year, with many saying they cheated because they believed it was an accepted practice in business.”
Donald McCabe, lead author of the report and professor of management and global business at New Jersey's Rutgers University said, "Students have reached the point where they're making their own rules. They'll challenge rules that professors have made, because they think they're stupid, basically, or inappropriate."
More disturbing is that these young students are learning substandard ethical practices from the actions of our countries business leaders—including business people in their own communities and likely their parents.
McCabe said that in their survey comments, business school students described cheating as a necessary measure and the sort of practice they'd likely need to succeed in the professional world.”
"The typical comment is that what's important is getting the job done. How you get it done is less important," McCabe said. "You'll have business students saying all I'm doing is emulating the behavior I'll need when I get out in the real world."
This blatant disregard for appropriate ethical behavior isn’t reserved only for college and the business world when they reach it—that would be bad enough—but will spill over into every aspect of their lives and the lives of every unfortunate individual they come into contact with.
Ethically speaking, our country is headed for a fall into an unethical abyss; an abyss that we will not be able to climb out of and will bring us to an enduring ending as a great nation.
In this age of almost instantaneous and mass communication our leaders have—more than ever—a responsibility to show and teach our children positive leadership; leadership that invokes a since of right and not, "…what's important is getting the job done. How you get it done is less important."
I’m sure we can do better than this!
Excerpts from “And the grad students most likely to cheat are...”
BOSTON (Reuters)
Graduate business students in the United States and Canada are more likely to cheat on their work than their counterparts in other academic fields, the author of a research paper said on Wednesday.”
The study of 5,300 graduate students in the United States and Canada found that 56 percent of graduate business students admitted to cheating in the past year, with many saying they cheated because they believed it was an accepted practice in business.”
Donald McCabe, lead author of the report and professor of management and global business at New Jersey's Rutgers University said, "Students have reached the point where they're making their own rules. They'll challenge rules that professors have made, because they think they're stupid, basically, or inappropriate."
More disturbing is that these young students are learning substandard ethical practices from the actions of our countries business leaders—including business people in their own communities and likely their parents.
McCabe said that in their survey comments, business school students described cheating as a necessary measure and the sort of practice they'd likely need to succeed in the professional world.”
"The typical comment is that what's important is getting the job done. How you get it done is less important," McCabe said. "You'll have business students saying all I'm doing is emulating the behavior I'll need when I get out in the real world."
This blatant disregard for appropriate ethical behavior isn’t reserved only for college and the business world when they reach it—that would be bad enough—but will spill over into every aspect of their lives and the lives of every unfortunate individual they come into contact with.
Ethically speaking, our country is headed for a fall into an unethical abyss; an abyss that we will not be able to climb out of and will bring us to an enduring ending as a great nation.
In this age of almost instantaneous and mass communication our leaders have—more than ever—a responsibility to show and teach our children positive leadership; leadership that invokes a since of right and not, "…what's important is getting the job done. How you get it done is less important."
I’m sure we can do better than this!
Excerpts from “And the grad students most likely to cheat are...”
BOSTON (Reuters)
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