As many have mentioned in this forum, what does higher education have to do with your position in the company? Many flight attendents, pilots, mechanics and rampers have graduate degrees, are you calling them cheaters as well?
I didn't read where the poster called anyone a cheater.
The article speaks to a study that was done that indicated that folks who were MBA business majors had more of a propensity to cheat vs those who are in other fields. The reasoning behind this that some researchers guess is that business schools today don't teach business ethics. THey are learning what's important is "free market, and maximising "shareholder value". Students are only emulating what they observe in the business world today....Business minded graduates believe that what's important "is not how it gets done, but that it gets done".
So the answer to your query is...it doesn't matter whether your a f/a, pilot, computer operator, or a waitress with a graduate degree in business. The study indicates that those students who were business majors who anwered the questions stated that they cheated while in school.
What I get out of this article pretty much gives credence to what I've known from my own personal experience dealing with senior execs...is what is MOST important to them in these exec roles is MAXIMISING SHAREHOLDER VALUE. Not because they LOVE the trader on wall street...
ITS BECAUSE THEY GET TO BECOME INSTANT MILLIONAIRES AND FILL THEIR OWN POCKETS WITH CASHING IN STOCK OPTIONS THEY NEVER PAID FOR!!! So, if getting to THAT bottom line to increase the share price translates to screwing the employees, lie to the employees and the customers, cheat the employees, exaggerate the value of the company, even dance into bk a couple of times, and titter on what is legal and illegal...MANY of these highly educated, business ya-hoos will do it! Doesnt' matter HOW they do it, the system in which they were taught and what they observe in the hierarcy basically rewards them for it.
That's what I've seen FIRST HAND! The study just validates the "known".
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