Jawedullah Khushzad
Professor Silva
MGMT-3614-02
January 15, 2018
ASSIGNMENT
Week 3 Chapter 6 PERCEPTION AND INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING ETHICAL DILEMMA PAGE 198 CHEATING IS A DECISION
Questions
6-11) Do you know classmates who have cheated in school? Have you ever cheated?
I remember some classmates, cheating back in high school. Throughout my entire educational career, I have experienced meeting a lot of cheaters. Plagiarism is considered a form of cheating. The punishment has changed from a zero grade to expulsion. A lot of students who cheat, are only fooling themselves. Now, in college, cheating will place an academic warning on your official transcript, making it visible to other institutions. I am going to come clean, about cheating in the far past. I am taking, full responsibility that cheat is a unethical habit. Most students decide to cheat, because they want high grades, without much effort. I can’t remember the exact incident, that occured cheating, although I have. We learn, from our mistakes as we mature. 6-12) The authors of one study noted that people feel they don’t need to be objective in evaluating potential cheaters. Do you agree? Why or why not?
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The three key elements of motivation are intensity, direction, and persistence.
7-2) What are some early theories of motivation? How applicable are they today?
Some early theories of motivation are, Hierarchy of Needs Theory, Theory X & Y, Two-Factor Theory and McClelland’s Theory of Needs. They are applicable in different ways, as listed below.
>Hierarchy of Needs Theory
Maslow - within every human being there are 5 needs (from low to high): Physiological, Safety, Social, Esteem, Self-Actualization (drive to become, highest on hierarchy).
>Theory X and Y
McGregor - X = employees dislike work; Y = employees enjoy work.
>Two-Factor
Module Three Rough Draft One of the most common problems in our schooling system is that students cheat. This happens a lot with older students who struggle with the topic that their assignment is on. In “The Shadow Scholar” by Ed Dante, and “Introduction: Fraud and Fundamental Misunderstandings” by Shane Borrowman shows how students cheat to move on in their education. In both of these texts the authors tell their first-hand stories of their different students cheating.
Throughout my high school education, I have found myself being unable to trust my peers as I have been told to cover my answer sheets during tests, or have seen other students on their phones during quizzes that I had studied hours for the night before. In my school, cheating runs rampant as many students feel that there is no consequence as it has been deemed socially acceptable, many teachers don’t discuss repercussions for cheating at the beginning of the year, and it is not very difficult to difficult to cheat. In fact, as outlined in Source F, two thirds of students surveyed at the collegiate level admit to acts of academic dishonesty. The same source found that “the highest levels of cheating are usually found at colleges that have not engaged their students in active dialogue on the issue of academic dishonesty,” (Source F). Although many would believe that implementing an honor code would stir further distrust among students as they are told to suspect and report each other, I believe that an honor code in my school would set an important precedent for academic honesty, as there is currently little to no social pressures around cheating.
The New York Times article, Stuyvesant Students Describe the How and the Why of Cheating, written by Vivian Yee, primarily focuses on the reasons why students choose to cheat. These answers all come from alumni of Stuyvesant High School. They each give a unique perspective on the issue of cheating, as well as giving their own moral justification for cheating on a test. Three main reasons why students are found to cheat, as seen through interviews conducted by the author herself are, the lack of respect for material being taught, and cheating due to a harsh competitive environment. In order to refute these rationalizations behind cheating the methods of cheating will be taken into consideration.
People will usually agree that it is all fun and games when the cheater in a relationship is themselves. It seems to be even more of a euphoria when they are the ones consensually being used to cheat. Particularly when whomever a cheater is cheating with is made to feel as if they possess some celestial sexual gift, unprecedented to the cheater. A satisfaction the cheater’s spouse seemingly failed to give, and a satisfaction so powerful that it would cause a cheater to continually indulge the obvious wrong of infidelity. In other words, cheating is somewhat acceptable in modern society, until, an individual becomes the one being cheated on, until their sex is no longer satisfying to their spouse, or even until they are the ones being dealt
High school and College students’ ethics have elevated over the years and has only increased. Cheating has been a tremendous epidemic for a long period of time and recently skyrocketed because of the creation of smartphones and electronics. Students who are academically dishonest are usually in honors and advanced placement classes because they are challenged and learning a more rigorous curriculum than the other students who are in college prep courses. The reason for their actions is because of academic stress students receive on a daily basis to obtain admirable grades, so they can go to a well-known college.
There are several reasons why kids want to cheat but sometimes what they don’t realize is cheating comes with consequences. While this may or may not tell us a little something about ourselves or just people in general, it clearly indicates that whatever is being done to stop cheating isn’t working. According to nytimes.com, studies of student’s behavior and attitudes show that a majority of students
Cheating the Future One of the most detrimental mistakes a student can make during his school career is cheating. Though often times the students know it is wrong, they are still compelled to cheat because of the pressures of making good grades. Because students are never taught the result of their actions until it is too late, cheating has become a commonplace in schools today. David Vesler, the author of “The One Minute Case Against Cheating”, presents a logical argument to dissuade students from cheating.
To begin with Perez-Pena starts with the thought that technology and electronics have made cheating easier for students within the colleges and institutions. Today’s generation of students have begun to cheat more do to the access of answers provided by the Internet (Perez-Pena). This indicates the problems among schools and their cheating students are pursuing a much bigger and increasing problem because of technology and the access to internet world wide. Secondly, at this present time students culture of “sharing” has blurred lines of academic integrity. The article states “An increased emphasis on having students work in teams may also have played a role” (Perez-Pena).
Since a young age, teachers, even our parents, told us that cheating is a very bad thing to do. “You are not only hurting others, you are hurting yourself”, they say. As children gradually ascend from middle school to high school, they are logically more mature and understand consequences better than a third grader. However, out of my own personal experience, cheating became a huge issue as I entered high school. I caught classmates glancing over my shoulders during quizzes, passing little notes, making gestures at me to give them an answer.
Academic Integrity “Cheating in colleges and universities is perhaps the least openly discussed crisis in higher education”(Keith). Academic Integrity is taken very serious in college, therefore, cheating in colleges should be discussed. The definition of academic integrity is, “ holding oneself to the highest ethical standard in all academic pursuits – doing all individual work alone, relying on one’s own knowledge during assessments, engaging truthfully with others, following all university policies and procedures, and encouraging this behavior in fellow students”(Handbook). There are several different types of cheating, these range from performance concerns, unfair professors, to external pressures, etc. (Reasons).
Students today are all so consumed with modifying the old and they turn plagiarism into a normal everyday thing. The purpose of this paper is to discuss possible solutions to the issue of plagiarism among high school students in the U.S. Academic dishonesty happens with different frequencies.(Hensley) Students usually only cheat because they have no other way to do their assignment. They tend to cheat knowing there is a possibility of getting in terrible trouble, but they do not care.
In “A Better Way to Prevent Student Cheating”, David Callahan states academic cheating is rampant and needs to be viewed as an issue of justice. Callahan shows that there is no concrete reason why not to cheat, or plagiarize, amongst college students. Many students believe that the only way a person becomes successful is through the act of cheating. For instance, the students cited that politicians lie and pro-athletes cheat their way through triumph. Although they are told on numerous occasions that doing this does not help them out, it is only on the contrary- everyone does it and by doing it right, cheating only helps students advance academically. Despite the fact that this is done, students also agree that cheating is unfair, but countless
Study shows that one reason why students cheat is because they feel as if they almost have to because of their peers. In their article, “Source Is Important When Developing A Social Norms Campaign to Combat Academic Dishonesty”, Jennifer N. Engler and Joshua D. Landau maintains that “By this account, students cheat because they believe that their peers
We are taught the difference between the right and wrong since our childhood but are always told that the lying and cheating always makes things difficult but when students go to school and college they are faced with different dilemma as then the cheating seems to be the easier way to get good grades. They do not really see cheating as the wrong way of doing things they see it as an easy way of doing things .They do not even consider it as an unethical thing because they have been taught that to do the right thing is the easy way .They are taught that the right path and the ethical path is always the easy one but in reality that is not true. The ethical and right path is difficult and complex as J.K.Rowling has said, “Sometimes we must choose between what is right and what is easy.”
In academics, cheating can take different forms that mostly involve using or representing somebody else’s work as your own without acknowledging him/her. This is plagiarism, and is often referred to as academic dishonesty by colleges and other institutions of higher learning. In the modern day world of academics, other forms of cheating include sharing another person’s work, paying another person to do an exam or an assignment, and purchasing a test or a term paper in advance are considered to be the most common forms of cheating. Bryce Buchmann, the author of the article Cheating In College: Where It Happens, Why Students Do It and How to Stop It, argues that approximately 75 percent of college students and prospective graduate students in