An Empirical Research of Business Ethics and Moral Judgment for Students in Management School ? A Case of An University in the middle Taiwan

[[abstract]]In the modern society with rapid growing in technology and economy, all the concerns fell on the business performance, but the ethical education was ignored, and thus resulted in many fraudulent scandals. This research explained some of the signals for the modern social fraudulent scandals through understanding the level of moral judgment from the students in the management school. This research was trying to warn people from all fields to concern about the business ethics. The promotion of business ethics overseas were exercised for a long time, and had accumulated many experiences as reference for our nation, therefore this research cooperate with the University of Minnesota, USA, to lead in the Defining Issues Test2 (DIT2) provided by the Center for the Study of Ethical Development, and looking forward to provide more objective and reliable data for discussion of this issue. This research was mainly designed to understand the level of moral judgment for the students in the management school nowadays, and the influences from education and gender. Therefore, 80 students from the senior, junior and freshmen students in a management school in the middle Taiwan were selected to be samples, which the business ethics education was just promoted in the class of the senior students. After they filled out the DIT2 questionnaire, the results were sent abroad to conduct ANOVA and database comparison. The results were shown in the follows: there were no significant differences on gender variable for moral judgment of the students in the management school, as for the education variable also showed that there were no significant differences between the senior students and freshmen students, which showed that the effects of the business ethics education failed to realize. To delve into the reason, it might be the insufficient socialization of the students, and they thus failed to respond correctly to the complicated moral judgment problems, or another possibility would be the content or classes of teaching were still insufficient to elevate the students? business ethics, and these reasons were worthwhile to discuss deeply. In the very few schools promoting business ethics in our nation, though the sample school did not have a great outcome in promoting business ethics, it could also be as an initiator for other schools to emphasize the subject of business ethics