A Study on Workplace and Academic Dishonesty Intention: An Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior

• Main Authors: Chun-Hua Susan Lin, 林春華
• Other Authors: Mei-Hua Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76341367954690175170

博士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 商業教育學系 === 98 === The purpose of this research study was to investigate workplace dishonesty and academic dishonesty behavior intentions by extending the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to incorporate group norms and past behavior in a multicampus setting. A total of 1535 students with job experiences from 16 colleges and universities were surveyed through a questionnaire on six dishonesty behaviors. The behaviors of interest were private usage of company resources, falsifying work data, taking credit of other’s work in workplace dishonesty, and cheating, plagiarism, and making false excuse to delaying exam in academic dishonesty. The results of this research study show that there were strong relationship between workplace and academic dishonesty on attitudes, past behaviors, and intentions. Hierarchical regression analyses show that the variables of TPB explained 30% to 42% of the variance, which past behavior further explained about 10% of the variance, and group norms explained about 6%, with no influence from gender and age. Path analysis also demonstrated the effects of past behavior and group norms on attitudes and behavior intentions. In addition, gender differences were significant in all dishonesty behaviors, except making false excuse. Students in private schools had more cheating behaviors and intentions, while public school students had more private usage of company resources.