IDEA #92

MBA students and the cheating bug

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How and why MBA students cheat.

What you need to know

In the 2006 Academy of Management Learning and Education Paper of the Year, Donald McCabe, Kenneth Butterfield and Linda Treviño brought new insight to the long-held perception that Master of Business Administration (MBA) students are cheaters. Using a definition of cheating that included 13 criteria (5 related to cheating on tests and exams – such as copying a peer’s work or using crib notes and eight related to written coursework – such as plagiarism or falsifying bibliographies) the researchers invited students to fill in an anonymous survey ...

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