Ethical Behaviour of Tertiary Education Students in Cyprus

Zopiatis, Anastasios; Krambia‐Kapardis, Maria

doi:10.1007/s10551-007-9538-6

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“…The conclusion that there exists a negative relationship between business ethics and an entrepreneurial interest lends support to the anxiety of ethicist and the like about the ethical standards of business students and other future professionals in corporate and financial positions (Lane and Schaupp 1989;McCabe et al 1991;McCabe 2001;Zopiatis and Krambia-Kapardis 2007). The problem seems to be especially grave for professions in the financial sector.…”

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“…Conversely, scholars also attribute responsibility to colleges and universities to counteract or even prevent the development of unethical attitudes and behaviours of their students (Felton and Sims 2005;Lane et al 1988;Lysonski and Gaidis 1991). Zopiatis and Krambia-Kapardis (2007) even formulate a number of practical real-world measures that could be taken by educational institutions in order to stimulate ethical behaviour of their students. In doing so they suggest that the development of ethical attitudes and behaviour can best be understood as an educational socialisation process.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A bulk of research documenting differences between economic and other freshmen students regarding ethics supports the 'import hypothesis' (Arlow 1991;Bellizi and Hasty 1982;Carter and Irons 1991;Cipriani and Zago 2009;Frank et al 1993;Meier 2003, 2005;Jeffrey 1993;Milner et al 1999;Wood et al 1988). Although not every study have revealed significant differences in the ethical standards of business and nonbusiness students (Borkowski and Ugras 1988;Tse and Au 1997;Zopiatis and Krambia-Kapardis 2007), the dominant conclusion is that economics students are directed more by the rational self-interest model than non-economists (Carter and Irons 1991). Also, they give more priority to profit maximisation than to social considerations (Cipriani and Zago 2009), are less generous and less cooperative (Frank et al 1993), seem to be more selfish than the average student Meier 2003, 2005) and are more driven by egoism and individualism (Wood et al 1988).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Longitudinal research is probably the best way to examine the role of self-selection and socialisation in the emergence of business ethics (Zopiatis and Krambia-Kapardis 2007). Another possibility is to do research at an earlier stage in the anticipatory socialisation process and by focussing more directly on the relation between ethical standards and vocational interests.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Role of Business Ethics, Personality, Work Values and Gender in Vocational Interests from Adolescents

Berings

Adriaenssens

2011

J Bus Ethics

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The present study investigates how business ethics are related to vocational interest. Special attention has been paid to the relationship between business ethics and the interest in 'enterprising' and 'social' oriented professions. The results show that business ethics is only significantly correlated in a negative way, to enterprising vocational preferences. Moreover, the negative contribution of business ethics to the preference for entrepreneurial and managerial professions remains after controlling for personality and work values. Some work values also predict the entrepreneurial interest: Earnings, Influence, Competition, Innovation and Creativity. The personality traits Extraversion (positive) and Agreeableness (negative) have predictive validity, but this effect disappears after controlling for work values. In the 'Discussion' section, we pay attention to possible consequences of the negative relationship between business ethics and Entrepreneurial interest for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). We argue that efforts concerning realistic job previews will only be meaningful if they are completed with efforts to make people more sensitive for ethics in two other domains, namely education and business.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Role of Business Ethics, Personality, Work Values and Gender in Vocational Interests from Adolescents

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2011

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“…Zopiatis and Krambia-Kapardis (2008) note that prior to their study, no research into the ethical judgments of students in tertiary education had been conducted in the Republic of Cyprus. Thus the area of study reported in this paper is new both in its exploration of student attitudes towards ethics in these countries and the possible link to national culture.…”

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Attitudes of management students towards workplace ethics: A comparative study between South Africa and Cyprus

Thomas

Krambia‐Kapardis²,

Zopiatis³

2014

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ABSTRACT. In order to understand attitudes towards workrelated ethics and the teaching of business ethics in management programmes at universities, a survey was conducted with management students at two universities, one in the Republic of Cyprus (hereafter referred to as Cyprus) and the other in the Republic of South Africa (hereafter referred to as South Africa). An attempt was also made to investigate whether such differences, if any, were linked to differences in national culture. The findings indicate that no significant differences between the two samples exist on four of the five dimensions of national culture (Hofstede, 1994) and, accordingly, differences in attitudes towards workplace ethical issues cannot be said to be linked to this variable. Significant differences were found between the two samples on certain questionnaire items that related to workplace practices with the Cypriot sample, more so than the South African sample, appearing to be willing to engage in certain workplace practices that would be deemed unethical in society. It is recommended that ethics education be integral to a business curriculum and that teaching methodologies explore ways in which to develop moral reasoning in students.

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Students’ Ethical Behavior in Iran

2009

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Most of research on fostering ethical behavior among students has taken place in US and Europe. This paper seeks to provide additional information to both educators and organizations about the ethical perceptions of Iranian students by investigating the effect of gender on students' ethical behavior. The authors developed and administered a quantitative questionnaire to a sample of 203 individuals currently pursuing accredited degrees at one of the public universities in Iran. Statistical analysis revealed that male students have a significantly less ethical behavior in three factors (selfishness, academic cheating and computer ethics) than female students. While the topic of students' ethical behavior and its relationship with gender has been extensively studied before, there have been contrasting findings by different researchers. This paper is among the very few first researches conducted among Iranian university students to investigate the effects of gender on students' ethical behavior under the four categories of violation of school regulations, selfishness, academic cheating, and computer ethics, hence making an important contribution to the ethics literature on the developing countries, since the study was conducted in Iran.

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Ethical Behaviour of Tertiary Education Students in Cyprus

Abstract: Cyprus, tertiary education, students ethical standing,

Cited by 25 publications

References 41 publications

The Role of Business Ethics, Personality, Work Values and Gender in Vocational Interests from Adolescents

The Role of Business Ethics, Personality, Work Values and Gender in Vocational Interests from Adolescents

Attitudes of management students towards workplace ethics: A comparative study between South Africa and Cyprus

Students’ Ethical Behavior in Iran

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