A Longitudinal Study of the Effectiveness of Business Ethics Education: Establishing the Baseline |
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Authors: | Donna Fletcher-Brown Anthony F Buono Robert Frederick Gregory Hall Jahangir Sultan |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Finance, Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA;(2) Department of Management, Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA;(3) Department of Philosophy, Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA;(4) Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper is the first phase of a longitudinal study of the class of 2014 on the effectiveness of ethics education at a business
university. This phase of the project establishes the baseline attributes of incoming college freshmen with a pretest of the
students’ ethical proclivity as measured by Defining Issues Test (DIT-2) scores. The relationship between the students’ ethical
reasoning and their behavior in experimental stock trading sessions is then examined. In the trading simulations, randomly
selected students were provided with the option of receiving privileged insider information about the final payoff of several
stocks. The students could either accept or reject such information, with acceptance considered illegal insider trading. The
results of the pretest indicate that moral reasoning as measured by the DIT-2 is related to insider trading behavior, with
students with higher DIT-2 scores being less likely to accept insider information. The paper also presents demographic differences
across DIT-2 scores and trading behavior as a foundation for the longitudinal examination of changes in students’ moral cognition
characteristics and behavior during their undergraduate career. |
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