Factors Affecting the Ethical Behavior of Students in Facculty of Management Science, Surindra Rajabhat University

Abstract

The sample group of this present study consisted of 297 students in the faculty of Management Sciences, Surindra Rajabhat University, from the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th year in the academic year 2014. Those students participated in the study about factors related to ethical behavior of the Management Sciences’ students. A questionnaire was used as a research tool for data collection. The collected data were analyzed for mean, percentage, frequency, and standard deviation. In addition, Pearson’s correlation was applied to investigate a causal relationship and a regression analysis was recruited to examine a relationship among factors. The study found that, generally, the ethical behavior of the participants was affected at a high level by the family factor, the learning-teaching management factor, and the environmental factor. According to the level of ethical behavior of the participants, the overall level of ethical behavior was at a high level including the self-discipline, the responsibility, and the honesty, respectively. For a causal relationship analysis, the study showed that there was a significant relationship among the factors at .01 of statistical level which could be ranked from high to low as followings: the learning-teaching management factor and the administrative policy factor, the environmental factor and the learning-teaching management factor, and the environmental factor and the administrative policy factor. On the other hand, a correlation coefficient that influenced the ethical behavior was investigated using a regression analysis technique. The multiple correlation coefficient was equal to .571 at the significant statistical level of .001. The standard error of prediction was equal to .39.