During the global recession of 2008 and 2009 there were many accusations of unethical behavior by Wall Street executives financial managers and other corporate officers. At that time an article appeared suggesting that part of the reason for such unethical business behavior may stem from the fact that cheating has become more prevalent among business students. The article reported that 86% of business students admitted to cheating at some time during their academic career as compared to 77% of non-business students.
Cheating has been a concern of the dean of the College of Business at Rocky University for several years. Some faculty members in the college believe that cheating is more widespread at Rocky than at other universities while other faculty members think that cheating is not a major problem at the college. To resolve some of these issues the dean commissioned a study to assess the current ethical behavior of business students at Rocky. As part of this study an anonymous exit survey was administered to a sample of 90 business students from this years graduating class. Responses to the following questions were used to obtain data regarding three types of cheating.
Any student who answered yes to one or more of these questions was considered to have been involved in some type of cheating. The complete data set is in the file namedRockylinked at the bottom of the page.
Managerial ReportPrepare a report (see below) for the dean of the college that summarizes your assessment of the nature of cheating by business students at Rocky University. Be sure to include the following seven (7) items in your report.
Write a report that adheres to the Written Assignment Requirements under the heading Expectations for CSU-Global Written Assignments found in theCSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements.As with all written assignments at CSU-Global you should have in-text citations and a reference page. An example paper is provided in theMTH410 Guide to Writing with Statisticslinked at the bottom of the page.
Your report must contain the following:
Submit your Excel file in addition to your report.NOTE: Submitting your Excel file will aid in grading with partial credit if errors are found in the paper.