Law, Business and Society 11th Edition by Tony McAdams

Exercise 69

Too Little Studying = Cheating
According to the 2011 National Survey of Student Engagement, business majors spend less time studying than students in any other broad field. Nearly half of senior business majors say they study fewer than 11 hours per week outside of class. According to the Col-legiate Learning Assessment national essay test, business majors in their first two years of college improve their writing and reasoning skills less than any other major.
Questions
1. Can you explain why business majors apparently study less, on average, than students in other majors
2. Can you explain why business students' writing and reasoning skills apparently in-crease less than those of any other major during the first two years of college
3. The evidence, as noted above, indicates that business students cheat more than those majoring in other fields. What relationship, if any, do you see between student study patterns and student cheating patterns Put another way, do you think cheating in business schools would decline if students studied more Explain.
4. Do you think that studying ethics, as you are assigned to do in this chapter and in this book, is likely to materially improve the ethical quality of your professional life following graduation Explain.