LONG TERM EFFECTS OF ACADEMIC CHEATING

Continue ReadingThe article discusses cheating in academia including the numbers and statistics, the reasons and the strategies to prevent it. What striked me the most in this article is the long term effects of the unethical behavior. McCabe, Treviño, and Butterfield (1996) found a link in their studies between the cheating attitude in college and workplace.

The direct correlation between unethical behavior at school and workplace was observed by Sims (1993) in a study conducted on 60 MBA students. His research also indicated that rather than instantaneous situations, it is merely the character of one that leads to cheating.