Ethical behavior of business students

Question

Ethical Behavior of Business Students at Rocky University

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 that suggested 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 in 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 year's graduating class. Responses to the following questions were used to obtain data regarding three types of cheating.

During your time at Rocky, did you ever present work copied off the Internet as your own?

During your time at Rocky, did you ever copy answers off another student's exam?

During your time at Rocky, did you ever collaborate with other students on projects that were supposed to be completed individually?

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 named Rocky.

Managerial Report:

Prepare 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.

1. To summarize the data, compute the proportion of all students, male students, and female students that presented work copied off the internet as their own, copied answers off another student's exam, or collaborated with other students on projects that were supposed to be completed individually. Then comment on your findings.

2. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of male students, and the proportion of female students who were involved in some type of cheating.

3. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of male students, and the proportion of female students who were involved in copying off the internet.

4. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of male students, and the proportion of female students who were involved in copying off another's exam.

5. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of male students, and the proportion of female students who were involved in collaborating on individual project.

6. Conduct a hypothesis test to determine if the proportion of business students at Rocky University who were not involved in some type of cheating is less than that of business students elsewhere. Use α = 0.05.

7. What advice would you give to the dean based upon your analysis of the data?

Be sure that your report contains the following:

• A title page

• An introduction

• A body of the paper that answers the questions posed in the problem and calculations and graphs associated with this problem.

• A conclusion paragraph that addresses your findings and what you have determined from the data and your analysis.
Be sure to submit your Excel file as well.

Student	Copied from Internet	Copied on Exam	Collaborated on Individual Project	Gender
1	YES	NO	YES	Male
2	NO	YES	NO	Male
3	NO	NO	YES	Female
4	YES	YES	NO	Male
5	NO	YES	NO	Male
6	YES	NO	YES	Male
7	NO	YES	NO	Female
8	NO	NO	NO	Male
9	NO	YES	NO	Female
10	YES	YES	YES	Female
11	YES	NO	YES	Male
12	NO	NO	NO	Female
13	NO	YES	NO	Male
14	NO	NO	NO	Female
15	NO	YES	YES	Female
16	NO	NO	YES	Female
17	NO	NO	NO	Male
18	YES	YES	YES	Male
19	NO	YES	NO	Male
20	YES	NO	NO	Male
21	NO	YES	NO	Female
22	YES	YES	YES	Female
23	YES	YES	NO	Male
24	YES	YES	NO	Male
25	NO	NO	NO	Male
26	YES	YES	NO	Male
27	YES	NO	YES	Female
28	NO	YES	NO	Male
29	YES	NO	NO	Female
30	NO	NO	YES	Male
31	NO	NO	NO	Male
32	NO	YES	NO	Female
33	NO	YES	YES	Female
34	YES	YES	YES	Male
35	NO	NO	YES	Male
36	YES	NO	NO	Male
37	YES	NO	NO	Female
38	NO	YES	NO	Female
39	NO	YES	NO	Female
40	NO	NO	YES	Male
41	NO	NO	NO	Female
42	YES	YES	NO	Female
43	YES	YES	NO	Male
44	YES	YES	YES	Male
45	YES	NO	YES	Male
46	YES	NO	NO	Male
47	YES	NO	YES	Male
48	NO	YES	YES	Female
49	NO	NO	YES	Female
50	YES	NO	NO	Female
51	NO	NO	YES	Male
52	YES	NO	NO	Female
53	YES	NO	NO	Female
54	NO	NO	YES	Male
55	YES	YES	YES	Male
56	YES	YES	YES	Female
57	NO	NO	NO	Male
58	NO	NO	NO	Male
59	YES	YES	NO	Female
60	NO	YES	YES	Female
61	YES	NO	YES	Male
62	NO	NO	YES	Male
63	NO	NO	YES	Female
64	YES	NO	YES	Male
65	YES	YES	YES	Female
66	YES	NO	NO	Female
67	YES	YES	YES	Female
68	YES	NO	NO	Male
69	YES	NO	YES	Male
70	NO	YES	NO	Male
71	NO	YES	NO	Female
72	YES	NO	YES	Male
73	NO	NO	YES	Female
74	NO	YES	NO	Female
75	YES	YES	YES	Female
76	YES	NO	NO	Male
77	NO	YES	YES	Female
78	YES	YES	NO	Female
79	NO	YES	YES	Male
80	NO	NO	YES	Female
81	YES	NO	YES	Female
82	NO	YES	NO	Male
83	NO	YES	NO	Male
84	YES	NO	YES	Female
85	NO	NO	NO	Male
86	NO	YES	YES	Male
87	YES	YES	YES	Female
88	NO	NO	YES	Male
89	NO	YES	YES	Female
90	NO	YES	NO	Female