Professional Ethics: The importance of teaching ethics to future professionals

Students at two universities were tested to determine whether their commitment to ethics would correlate in a positive way with the final grade they earned in a safety course. Results of the study revealed that students who scored at the top of the class academically did not rank in the same place o...

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Published inProfessional safety Vol. 52; no. 7; pp. 37 - 41
Main Authors Nichols, Nick, Nichols, George V., Nichols, Patsy A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published The American Society of Safety Engineers 01.07.2007
American Society of Safety Engineers
ASSE
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Ethics
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Summary:Students at two universities were tested to determine whether their commitment to ethics would correlate in a positive way with the final grade they earned in a safety course. Results of the study revealed that students who scored at the top of the class academically did not rank in the same place on the ethics evaluation. In fact, those students quite frequently fell at the median or below, which was not the correlation coefficient expected. These observations support the conclusion that safety-related curriculum needs to address ethics to a much greater extent.
ISSN:0099-0027
2163-6176