Got Ethics?

Posted on Wednesday, November 1, 2006 by Frank Roche

Here’s an alarming statistic from M.B.A.s. The Biggest Cheaters: more than half of MBAs report having cheated in school in the last year. And, “Many of these students reportedly believe cheating is an accepted practice in business.” Um, Got Ethics? This is scary for those of you out there providing ethics training. Some of your new employees are starting in a deep hole.

User Comments

Charlie

Nov 4th, 2006

I can see this hurting a business in three ways:

1) The cheaters are more likely to have inflated resumes, so the organization loses the opportunity to get the best person for the job;

2) On the job, cheating will be de-motivating to their peers

3) The cheaters create legal liability for their actions at the organization (NB:Enron).
Frank

Nov 4th, 2006

So true…I didn’t think about inflated resumes, but that’s a killer, and not in the good way. It hurts in business to see cheaters and scammers get away with it. That is super demotivating.