Students’ Unethical Behaviour: Insights from an African Country
Purpose - This paper explores the issue of students’ unethical behaviour by investigating students from Egypt. It investigates participants’ concern toward ethical publishing as well as plagiarism practicing and moral reasoning.Design/methodology/approach - Using a sample of 238 university students in Egypt, the current study deployed the McMahon and Harvey’s model of moral intensity (2006) to understand and explain the unethical behaviour of students in the study. Findings - Research findings showed that while gender does not have any significant effect on intentions to engage in unethical behaviour, level of studies has a partially significant impact in this regard.Originality/value - Being among the first studies tackling this issue in the context of Africa, the paper provides new insights on the status of plagiarism practice by students and investigates the effects of gender and level of studies on ethical behaviour of students.
And what are the implications for the banks’ “ethical makeover”? Can conduct cost levels be reconciled with this? Some commentators have, for example, observed that it seems inappropriate to worry about the Co-operative Group potentially losing control over the Co-operative Bank, for fear it will not be able to hold on to its “ethical policies”, when that bank’s ethics are already under suspicion due to the scale (a £269M provision)of its product mis-selling. Do provisions like this reflect on ethics? It’s hard to argue that there is no relationship at all. But perhaps the conduct costs reflect the “bad old days” and, under new management, we can expect banks to improve?