Who Leads and Who Lags? A Comparison of Cheating Attitudes and Behaviors Among Leadership and Business Students

Academic dishonesty and cheating has become endemic, and has also been studied in great depth by researchers. The authors examine the differences between undergraduate business students (n = 136) and leadership students (n = 89) in terms of their attitudes toward academic dishonesty as well as their cheating behaviors. They found that business students overall had much more lax attitudes toward cheating than did leadership students, and they also found that business students seemingly appear to cheat more than do leadership students. The authors finally provide some suggestions and implications of their findings.