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Exploring Student’s Attitude towards Business Ethics: The Role of Islamic
Work Ethics.
Nur Iffah Rasyidah Rozman
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr Hafiza Aishah Hashim
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Nur. Haiza Muhammad Zawawi
Bachelor of Accounting
School of Maritime Business and Management
Issues involving corporate scandals in Malaysia have led to concerns about ethics in
business and in tertiary education in Malaysia. Due to the negative implications from
unethical business decision, many researchers continue to examine the ethics issues
focusing on factors associated with ethical decision making. Therefore, this study intends
to investigate attitude towards business ethics among students from two universities
located at Kuala Nerus, Kuala Terengganu i.e. Universiti Malaysia Terengganu and
Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin. The study focuses on three factors including the gender,
educational level of respondents as well as adaption of Islamic work ethics and its effect
on ethical decision making. The data will be collected through online questionnaire
survey which will be distributed to targeted 150 respondents. The results are expected
to be beneficial for universities towards the right direction in shaping Malaysian
graduates into ethically instilled citizens and to companies as a guideline for screening
process of new employees’ recruitment.
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