BAYVIEW UNIVERSITY

Ethical Behavior of Business Students at Bayview University

Ethical Behavior of Business Students at Bayview University

Introduction

The study is related to the ethical behavior of business students at Bayview University which particularly focuses on the cheating practices. As the past studies shows that students at Chronicle of High Education are involved in the cheating. The reason of this statement is that an article indicates that 56% of business students and 47% of non- business students at Chronicle of High Education are involved in the unethical behavior in learning process or cheating.

Discussion

There are probably as many different reasons for cheating on an exam as there are students. Some examples are:

- A student that has to work his way through university may have little or no extra time to devote to studies.

- Another student may feel pressured by his parents to do well and live up to their expectations.

- Or there is always the student that would rather spend his time partying than studying.

All three are good examples of a student willing to shortcut their academic work. Cheating is defined in the dictionary as, to deceive by trickery; swindle, however the dictionary fails to tell you if it is right or wrong. People have many different beliefs when it comes to cheating; some think that it's fine to do while others completely disapprove (David, Dennis and Thomas, 2010).

Utilitarian's believe that a good action promotes the general happiness. In other words, if the total amount of happiness caused by an action is significantly greater than the amount lost, the action was good. Say that there is a med-student who is the top in his class and has a proven himself to become an amazing doctor that actually has a good bed-side manner and a genuine concern for his patient. This same student has an exam on a subject that he will never use in the world of medicine. For whatever reason, he struggles just to get by and if he fails the exam, it could jeopardize his future as a well-respected doctor. A utilitarian might argue that the greater good would be for him to cheat because if he fails, he would deprive thousands of people the benefit of his knowledge and compassion as a doctor (David, Dennis and Thomas, 2010).

If everyone cheated there would be no point in cheating. Grades would have no meaning if everyone cheated. People cheat to gain some kind of unfair advantage over the test takers, who are not cheating. If everyone cheats, then cheating wouldn't be unfair and you wouldn't get any advantage. There would be no such thing as cheating. Cheating is not an action done out of duty with good intention respecting the law, and it can't be a universal law. Therefore, cheating is not rational and is not morally right as of Kant's deontological ethics.

The pressure of being a university student is high, especially as they to the senior grades. Students caught cheating in university should not automatically be ...