A new study shows that students have a very relaxed attitude to cheating: they see it as a preparation for life after college.
At regular intervals, as universities are scolded to offer too theory-heavy training. In many disciplines, including those of business administration and law, the praise of practical training is uttered. However, the influence of the "real life" on the university is more than thought: even in the tests, many students practice act - they cheat. This is confirmed by a survey of 5300 American and Canadian students who are known for academic honesty in America has some cause a stir.
consequence of the in the September issue of the journal Academy of Management Learning and Education (Vol. 5, No. 3) entitled "Academic Dishonesty in Graduate Business Programs: Prevalence, Causes, and Proposed Action "published study, 56 percent of students in economics to have cheated in the last year. For students of technical study was 54 percent, 50 percent of Sports Science and Medicine 49 percent. Among young lawyers, there were only 45 committed per cent who admitted "academic dishonesty" to. Most honest students of humanities and social scientists with a Schummleranteil were only 39 percent.
The divergence of the Schummleranteile raises a number of interesting questions. Do the students of the humanities to higher ethical standards than the business administrators and technicians? Why is that? It about that humanities subjects are in the increased level of sincere interest and less subject chosen from professional considerations? Or are the basis of the examination in the everyday perception solidified impression that this country regularly cheat more than 39 percent of the students, the business students the "most honest"? At least they admit to being dishonest. Particularly significant is the question of whether it is on the practical nature of the study that about economics and technology are to encourage cheating as other subjects.
The directly proportional relationship be cheating the students to practice close to the respective field of study is remarkable. In the study also queried the reasons of the students for their behavior because the practice has also an influential - and problematic - Roll on. One of the reasons the economy students for their behavior was in the belief that cheating constitutes an "accepted practice" in the business world and that they would have without cheating do not succeed professionally. Professor Donald McCabe of Rutgers University, who conducted the study along with Kenneth D. Butterfield, and Linda K. Trevino, summarized the attitude resignation as follows: "What's important is getting the job done. How you get it done is less important. "
Should universities, which are written into the increasingly practical specification will yield to this trend towards goal-orientation of teaching? Yes, it could mean, as the study is not academic end in itself. No, however, is the right answer. The view that "getting the job done" does not relieve from the obligation of an examination of how, contrary to fundamental knowledge and business ethics principles. Corporate Social Responsibility, Fair Trading and sustainability are core concepts of new economic development; Applied to the right to life, led the emphasis of success without regard to the legality and justifiability of the means to a Dictatorship of the objectives. A lawyer has to the best of our knowledge and belief for his client use - but also to the best of conscience. could accept dishonesty in the study as a method lead to sanction the lie as legal equipment.
should push the study in response to such perils, rather less than on more practical? Also this approach would be a mistake. Each study must be prepared for careers, identify dangers, temptations describe, discover opportunities and possibilities open up. If the program provides that dishonesty in business (or in the legal life) is accepted or should be, it's designed wrong. If the study not clear ethical standards are taught, it fails its purpose. Comprising (in) formed by lawyers should not forget that law is more than economic law and that the law can never pick up the conscience. In testing situation to not cheat, is a first step.
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