Ethical Behavior of Business Students at Rocky University

During the global recession of 2008 and 2009, there were many accusations of unethical behavior by Wall Street executives, financial managers, and other corporate officers. At that time, an article appeared suggesting that part of the reason for such unethical business behavior may stem from the fact that cheating has become more prevalent among business students. The article reported that 86% of business students admitted to cheating at some time during their academic career as compared to 77% of non-business students.

Cheating has been a concern of the dean of the College of Business at Rocky University for several years. Some faculty members in the college believe that cheating is more widespread at Rocky than at other universities, while other faculty members think that cheating is not a major problem at the college. To resolve some of these issues, the dean commissioned a study to assess the current ethical behavior of business students at Rocky. As part of this study, an anonymous exit survey was administered to a sample of 90 business students from this year’s graduating class. Responses to the following questions were used to obtain data regarding three types of cheating.

• During your time at Rocky, did you ever present work copied off the internet as your own?

  ____ Yes
  ____ No

• During your time at Rocky, did you ever copy answers off another student’s exam?

  ____ Yes
  ____ No

• During your time at Rocky, did you ever collaborate with other students on projects that were supposed to be completed individually?

  ____ Yes
  ____ No

Any student who answered yes to one or more of these questions was considered to have been involved in some type of cheating. The complete data set is in the file named Rocky, linked at the bottom of the page.

Managerial Report
Prepare a report (see below) for the dean of the college that summarizes your assessment of the nature of cheating by business students at Rocky University. Be sure to include the following seven (7) items in your report.

1. To summarize the data, compute the proportion of all students, the proportion of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who
   1. presented work copied off the internet as their own
   2. copied answers off another student’s exam
   3. collaborated with other students on projects that were supposed to be completed individually.
      Then comment on your findings.
2. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved in some type of cheating.
3. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved in copying off the internet.
4. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved in copying off another’s exam.
5. Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved in collaborating on an individual project.
6. Conduct a hypothesis test (using either the p-value approach or the critical value approach) to determine if the proportion of all business students at Rocky University who were not involved in some type of cheating is less than that of all business students elsewhere. Use α = 0.05. Do not forget to include the correctly worded hypotheses.
7. What advice would you give to the dean based upon your analysis of the data? Focus your advice on answering the following: What is the magnitude of the issue? What would you recommend for both students and faculty? What is the potential impact on relationships with the business community and what would you recommend? How can this study be improved?

Write a report that adheres to the Written Assignment Requirements under the heading “Expectations for CSU-Global Written Assignments” found in the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. As with all written assignments at CSU-Global, you should have in-text citations and a reference page. An example paper is provided in the MTH410 Guide to Writing with Statistics, linked at the bottom of the page.

Your report must contain the following:

• A title page in APA style.
• An introduction that summarizes the problem.
• The body of the paper should answer the questions posed in the problem by communicating the results of your analysis. Include results of calculations, as well as charts and graphs, where appropriate.
• A conclusion paragraph that addresses your findings and what you have determined from the data and your analysis.
• In-text citations from a minimum of three sources in addition to your textbook. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to locate these sources.
• A reference page.

Submit your Excel file in addition to your report.
NOTE: Submitting your Excel file will aid in grading with partial credit if errors are found in the paper.

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ethnographic research on language and human communication about neighborhood/community. For data, you may analyze interviews, conversations, performances, newspapers, store signs, websites, etc. (YOU ARE REQUIRED TO CONDUCT AT LEAST ONE INTERVIEW.) During the last week of class, each group will collaboratively present their findings to the class in an oral and visual format. One the last day of class, each student will submit an individually written report (5-7 pages) describing their ethnography.

I want you to write this 5-7 pages essay(plz write at least 6 pages) and make 4 slides of powerpoint.

I decided I will study the chicano community.

I will provide the interview data and place that I did once I confirm the tutor.

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Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to expose you to the basic process involved in the analysis of the cash flow statement.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Appendix A of Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making

Note: This is a two part assignment.

Part 1

Answer questions A-F in problem CT12-1 in Financial Accounting (p. 640).

Provide an 875-word analysis of your findings.

Include conclusions concerning the management of the company’s cash.

Part 2

Complete a 1,050-word summary of findings and recommendations from the following questions:

• What is the par or stated value per share of Apple’s common stock?
• What percentage of Apple’s authorized common stock was issued at September 27, 2014?
• How many shares of common stock were outstanding at September 28, 2013, and at September 27, 2014?
• Calculate the payout ratio, earnings per share, and return on common stockholders’ equity for 2014.

Use the Week 5 Excel^® spreadsheet and submit with your analysis and summary.

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Introduction to Tragedy of the Commons

In economics, the “tragedy of the commons” is the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one’s self-interest, despite their understanding that depleting the common resource is contrary to their long-term best interests. In this course, we use the term as it relates to environmental issues and sustainability. The commons dilemma stands as a model for a great variety of resource problems in society today, such as water, land, fish, and non-renewable energy sources such as oil and coal.

Situations exemplifying the “tragedy of the commons” include the unrestricted pollution of rivers and streams, uncontrolled industrial air emissions, overfishing and destruction of the Grand Banks, and the destruction of salmon runs on in the Pacific Northwest due to damming.

Readings:

• Porter: “Creating Shared Value”, Case No. R1101C.
• Is monetizing ecosystem services essential for sustainability? (A Primer on Sustainability, Chapter 3)
• Can Burt’s Bees Turn Clorox Green?

Presentation:

• The Tragedy of the Commons

Podcast:

• Podcast
  Transcript

Videos:

• The Founders of Burt’s Bees
  Transcript
• Jim Fruchterman’s Evolution
  Transcript
• Research on Ozone Depletion
  Transcript

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In your replies to classmates you may offer your opinion on the topic of the week, substantially support or supplement another student’s answer, or even politely disagree with or challenge their forum answer (but do not ask your classmates questions, or do so only as a last resort per the forum philosophy). I added in the drop files to reply to the three students plus the teacher. minimum of 200 words to the students replies. please reply to each person sepratley.

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